This is a cheat sheet for Pleroma configuration file, any setting possible to configure should be listed here.
Pleroma configuration works by first importing the base config (`config/config.exs` on source installs, compiled-in on OTP releases), then overriding it by the environment config (`config/$MIX_ENV.exs` on source installs, N/A to OTP releases) and then overriding it by user config (`config/$MIX_ENV.secret.exs` on source installs, typically `/etc/pleroma/config.exs` on OTP releases).
You shouldn't edit the base config directly to avoid breakages and merge conflicts, but it can be used as a reference if you don't understand how an option is supposed to be formatted, the latest version of it can be viewed [here](https://git.pleroma.social/pleroma/pleroma/blob/develop/config/config.exs).
*`uploader`: Select which `Pleroma.Uploaders` to use
*`filters`: List of `Pleroma.Upload.Filter` to use.
*`link_name`: When enabled Pleroma will add a `name` parameter to the url of the upload, for example `https://instance.tld/media/corndog.png?name=corndog.png`. This is needed to provide the correct filename in Content-Disposition headers when using filters like `Pleroma.Upload.Filter.Dedupe`
*`base_url`: The base URL to access a user-uploaded file. Useful when you want to proxy the media files via another host.
*`proxy_remote`: If you're using a remote uploader, Pleroma will proxy media requests instead of redirecting to it.
*`proxy_opts`: Proxy options, see `Pleroma.ReverseProxy` documentation.
Note: `strip_exif` has been replaced by `Pleroma.Upload.Filter.Mogrify`.
## Pleroma.Uploaders.Local
*`uploads`: Which directory to store the user-uploads in, relative to pleroma’s working directory
## Pleroma.Uploaders.S3
*`bucket`: S3 bucket name
*`bucket_namespace`: S3 bucket namespace
*`public_endpoint`: S3 endpoint that the user finally accesses(ex. "https://s3.dualstack.ap-northeast-1.amazonaws.com")
*`truncated_namespace`: If you use S3 compatible service such as Digital Ocean Spaces or CDN, set folder name or "" etc.
For example, when using CDN to S3 virtual host format, set "".
At this time, write CNAME to CDN in public_endpoint.
*`streaming_enabled`: Enable streaming uploads, when enabled the file will be sent to the server in chunks as it's being read. This may be unsupported by some providers, try disabling this if you have upload problems.
*`args`: List of actions for the `mogrify` command like `"strip"` or `["strip", "auto-orient", {"implode", "1"}]`.
## Pleroma.Upload.Filter.Dedupe
No specific configuration.
## Pleroma.Upload.Filter.AnonymizeFilename
This filter replaces the filename (not the path) of an upload. For complete obfuscation, add
`Pleroma.Upload.Filter.Dedupe` before AnonymizeFilename.
*`text`: Text to replace filenames in links. If empty, `{random}.extension` will be used. You can get the original filename extension by using `{extension}`, for example `custom-file-name.{extension}`.
## Pleroma.Emails.Mailer
*`adapter`: one of the mail adapters listed in [Swoosh readme](https://github.com/swoosh/swoosh#adapters), or `Swoosh.Adapters.Local` for in-memory mailbox.
*`api_key` / `password` and / or other adapter-specific settings, per the above documentation.
*`valid_schemes`: List of the scheme part that is considered valid to be an URL
## :instance
*`name`: The instance’s name
*`email`: Email used to reach an Administrator/Moderator of the instance
*`notify_email`: Email used for notifications.
*`description`: The instance’s description, can be seen in nodeinfo and ``/api/v1/instance``
*`limit`: Posts character limit (CW/Subject included in the counter)
*`remote_limit`: Hard character limit beyond which remote posts will be dropped.
*`upload_limit`: File size limit of uploads (except for avatar, background, banner)
*`avatar_upload_limit`: File size limit of user’s profile avatars
*`background_upload_limit`: File size limit of user’s profile backgrounds
*`banner_upload_limit`: File size limit of user’s profile banners
*`poll_limits`: A map with poll limits for **local** polls
*`max_options`: Maximum number of options
*`max_option_chars`: Maximum number of characters per option
*`min_expiration`: Minimum expiration time (in seconds)
*`max_expiration`: Maximum expiration time (in seconds)
*`registrations_open`: Enable registrations for anyone, invitations can be enabled when false.
*`invites_enabled`: Enable user invitations for admins (depends on `registrations_open: false`).
*`account_activation_required`: Require users to confirm their emails before signing in.
*`federating`: Enable federation with other instances
*`federation_incoming_replies_max_depth`: Max. depth of reply-to activities fetching on incoming federation, to prevent out-of-memory situations while fetching very long threads. If set to `nil`, threads of any depth will be fetched. Lower this value if you experience out-of-memory crashes.
*`federation_reachability_timeout_days`: Timeout (in days) of each external federation target being unreachable prior to pausing federating to it.
*`allow_relay`: Enable Pleroma’s Relay, which makes it possible to follow a whole instance
*`rewrite_policy`: Message Rewrite Policy, either one or a list. Here are the ones available by default:
*`Pleroma.Web.ActivityPub.MRF.DropPolicy`: Drops all activities. It generally doesn’t makes sense to use in production
*`Pleroma.Web.ActivityPub.MRF.SimplePolicy`: Restrict the visibility of activities from certains instances (See ``:mrf_simple`` section)
*`Pleroma.Web.ActivityPub.MRF.TagPolicy`: Applies policies to individual users based on tags, which can be set using pleroma-fe/admin-fe/any other app that supports Pleroma Admin API. For example it allows marking posts from individual users nsfw (sensitive)
*`Pleroma.Web.ActivityPub.MRF.SubchainPolicy`: Selectively runs other MRF policies when messages match (see ``:mrf_subchain`` section)
*`Pleroma.Web.ActivityPub.MRF.RejectNonPublic`: Drops posts with non-public visibility settings (See ``:mrf_rejectnonpublic`` section)
*`Pleroma.Web.ActivityPub.MRF.EnsureRePrepended`: Rewrites posts to ensure that replies to posts with subjects do not have an identical subject and instead begin with re:.
*`Pleroma.Web.ActivityPub.MRF.AntiLinkSpamPolicy`: Rejects posts from likely spambots by rejecting posts from new users that contain links.
*`Pleroma.Web.ActivityPub.MRF.MediaProxyWarmingPolicy`: Crawls attachments using their MediaProxy URLs so that the MediaProxy cache is primed.
*`Pleroma.Web.ActivityPub.MRF.MentionPolicy`: Drops posts mentioning configurable users. (see `:mrf_mention` section)
*`Pleroma.Web.ActivityPub.MRF.VocabularyPolicy`: Restricts activities to a configured set of vocabulary. (see `:mrf_vocabulary` section)
*`public`: Makes the client API in authentificated mode-only except for user-profiles. Useful for disabling the Local Timeline and The Whole Known Network.
*`quarantined_instances`: List of ActivityPub instances where private(DMs, followers-only) activities will not be send.
*`managed_config`: Whenether the config for pleroma-fe is configured in this config or in ``static/config.json``
*`allowed_post_formats`: MIME-type list of formats allowed to be posted (transformed into HTML)
*`mrf_transparency`: Make the content of your Message Rewrite Facility settings public (via nodeinfo).
*`mrf_transparency_exclusions`: Exclude specific instance names from MRF transparency. The use of the exclusions feature will be disclosed in nodeinfo as a boolean value.
*`extended_nickname_format`: Set to `true` to use extended local nicknames format (allows underscores/dashes). This will break federation with
older software for theses nicknames.
*`max_pinned_statuses`: The maximum number of pinned statuses. `0` will disable the feature.
*`autofollowed_nicknames`: Set to nicknames of (local) users that every new user should automatically follow.
*`no_attachment_links`: Set to true to disable automatically adding attachment link text to statuses
*`welcome_message`: A message that will be send to a newly registered users as a direct message.
*`welcome_user_nickname`: The nickname of the local user that sends the welcome message.
*`max_report_comment_size`: The maximum size of the report comment (Default: `1000`)
*`safe_dm_mentions`: If set to true, only mentions at the beginning of a post will be used to address people in direct messages. This is to prevent accidental mentioning of people when talking about them (e.g. "@friend hey i really don't like @enemy"). Default: `false`.
*`healthcheck`: If set to true, system data will be shown on ``/api/pleroma/healthcheck``.
*`remote_post_retention_days`: The default amount of days to retain remote posts when pruning the database.
*`user_bio_length`: A user bio maximum length (default: `5000`)
*`user_name_length`: A user name maximum length (default: `100`)
*`skip_thread_containment`: Skip filter out broken threads. The default is `false`.
*`limit_to_local_content`: Limit unauthenticated users to search for local statutes and users only. Possible values: `:unauthenticated`, `:all` and `false`. The default is `:unauthenticated`.
*`dynamic_configuration`: Allow transferring configuration to DB with the subsequent customization from Admin api.
*`max_account_fields`: The maximum number of custom fields in the user profile (default: `10`)
*`max_remote_account_fields`: The maximum number of custom fields in the remote user profile (default: `20`)
*`account_field_name_length`: An account field name maximum length (default: `512`)
See the [Quack Github](https://github.com/azohra/quack) for more details
## :frontend_configurations
This can be used to configure a keyword list that keeps the configuration data for any kind of frontend. By default, settings for `pleroma_fe` and `masto_fe` are configured.
Frontends can access these settings at `/api/pleroma/frontend_configurations`
To add your own configuration for PleromaFE, use it like this:
```elixir
config :pleroma, :frontend_configurations,
pleroma_fe: %{
theme: "pleroma-dark",
# ... see /priv/static/static/config.json for the available keys.
},
masto_fe: %{
showInstanceSpecificPanel: true
}
```
These settings **need to be complete**, they will override the defaults.
NOTE: for versions <1.0,youneedtoset [`:fe`](#fe) tofalse,asshownafewlinesbelow.
This section is used to configure Pleroma-FE, unless ``:managed_config`` in ``:instance`` is set to false.
*`theme`: Which theme to use, they are defined in ``styles.json``
*`logo`: URL of the logo, defaults to Pleroma’s logo
*`logo_mask`: Whether to use only the logo's shape as a mask (true) or as a regular image (false)
*`logo_margin`: What margin to use around the logo
*`background`: URL of the background, unless viewing a user profile with a background that is set
*`redirect_root_no_login`: relative URL which indicates where to redirect when a user isn’t logged in.
*`redirect_root_login`: relative URL which indicates where to redirect when a user is logged in.
*`show_instance_panel`: Whenether to show the instance’s specific panel.
*`scope_options_enabled`: Enable setting an notice visibility and subject/CW when posting
*`formatting_options_enabled`: Enable setting a formatting different than plain-text (ie. HTML, Markdown) when posting, relates to ``:instance, allowed_post_formats``
*`collapse_message_with_subjects`: When a message has a subject(aka Content Warning), collapse it by default
*`allow_followersonly`: whether to allow followers-only posts
*`allow_direct`: whether to allow direct messages
## :mrf_hellthread
*`delist_threshold`: Number of mentioned users after which the message gets delisted (the message can still be seen, but it will not show up in public timelines and mentioned users won't get notifications about it). Set to 0 to disable.
*`reject_threshold`: Number of mentioned users after which the messaged gets rejected. Set to 0 to disable.
## :mrf_keyword
*`reject`: A list of patterns which result in message being rejected, each pattern can be a string or a [regular expression](https://hexdocs.pm/elixir/Regex.html)
*`federated_timeline_removal`: A list of patterns which result in message being removed from federated timelines (a.k.a unlisted), each pattern can be a string or a [regular expression](https://hexdocs.pm/elixir/Regex.html)
*`replace`: A list of tuples containing `{pattern, replacement}`, `pattern` can be a string or a [regular expression](https://hexdocs.pm/elixir/Regex.html)
## :mrf_mention
*`actors`: A list of actors, for which to drop any posts mentioning.
## :mrf_vocabulary
*`accept`: A list of ActivityStreams terms to accept. If empty, all supported messages are accepted.
*`reject`: A list of ActivityStreams terms to reject. If empty, no messages are rejected.
## :media_proxy
*`enabled`: Enables proxying of remote media to the instance’s proxy
*`base_url`: The base URL to access a user-uploaded file. Useful when you want to proxy the media files via another host/CDN fronts.
*`proxy_opts`: All options defined in `Pleroma.ReverseProxy` documentation, defaults to `[max_body_length: (25*1_048_576)]`.
*`whitelist`: List of domains to bypass the mediaproxy
## :gopher
*`enabled`: Enables the gopher interface
*`ip`: IP address to bind to
*`port`: Port to bind to
*`dstport`: Port advertised in urls (optional, defaults to `port`)
## Pleroma.Web.Endpoint
`Phoenix` endpoint configuration, all configuration options can be viewed [here](https://hexdocs.pm/phoenix/Phoenix.Endpoint.html#module-dynamic-configuration), only common options are listed here
*`http` - a list containing http protocol configuration, all configuration options can be viewed [here](https://hexdocs.pm/plug_cowboy/Plug.Cowboy.html#module-options), only common options are listed here. For deployment using docker, you need to set this to `[ip: {0,0,0,0}, port: 4000]` to make pleroma accessible from other containers (such as your nginx server).
-`ip` - a tuple consisting of 4 integers
-`port`
*`url` - a list containing the configuration for generating urls, accepts
-`host` - the host without the scheme and a post (e.g `example.com`, not `https://example.com:2020`)
-`scheme` - e.g `http`, `https`
-`port`
-`path`
*`extra_cookie_attrs` - a list of `Key=Value` strings to be added as non-standard cookie attributes. Defaults to `["SameSite=Lax"]`. See the [SameSite article](https://www.owasp.org/index.php/SameSite) on OWASP for more info.
**Important note**: if you modify anything inside these lists, default `config.exs` values will be overwritten, which may result in breakage, to make sure this does not happen please copy the default value for the list from `config.exs` and modify/add only what you need
Web Push Notifications configuration. You can use the mix task `mix web_push.gen.keypair` to generate it.
* ``subject``: a mailto link for the administrative contact. It’s best if this email is not a personal email address, but rather a group email so that if a person leaves an organization, is unavailable for an extended period, or otherwise can’t respond, someone else on the list can.
* ``public_key``: VAPID public key
* ``private_key``: VAPID private key
## Pleroma.Captcha
*`enabled`: Whether the captcha should be shown on registration
*`method`: The method/service to use for captcha
*`seconds_valid`: The time in seconds for which the captcha is valid
### Pleroma.Captcha.Kocaptcha
Kocaptcha is a very simple captcha service with a single API endpoint,
the source code is here: https://github.com/koto-bank/kocaptcha. The default endpoint
`https://captcha.kotobank.ch` is hosted by the developer.
*`endpoint`: the kocaptcha endpoint to use
## :admin_token
Allows to set a token that can be used to authenticate with the admin api without using an actual user by giving it as the 'admin_token' parameter. Example:
*`mailer` - Email sender, see [`Pleroma.Emails.Mailer`](#pleromaemailsmailer)
*`transmogrifier` - Transmogrifier
*`web_push` - Web push notifications
*`scheduled_activities` - Scheduled activities, see [`Pleroma.ScheduledActivity`](#pleromascheduledactivity)
Example:
```elixir
config :pleroma, Oban,
repo: Pleroma.Repo,
verbose: false,
prune: {:maxlen, 1500},
queues: [
federator_incoming: 50,
federator_outgoing: 50
]
```
This config contains two queues: `federator_incoming` and `federator_outgoing`. Both have the number of max concurrent jobs set to `50`.
### Migrating `pleroma_job_queue` settings
`config :pleroma_job_queue, :queues` is replaced by `config :pleroma, Oban, :queues` and uses the same format (keys are queues' names, values are max concurrent jobs numbers).
### Note on running with PostgreSQL in silent mode
If you are running PostgreSQL in [`silent_mode`](https://postgresqlco.nf/en/doc/param/silent_mode?version=9.1), it's advised to set [`log_destination`](https://postgresqlco.nf/en/doc/param/log_destination?version=9.1) to `syslog`,
otherwise `postmaster.log` file may grow because of "you don't own a lock of type ShareLock" warnings (see https://github.com/sorentwo/oban/issues/52).
## :workers
Includes custom worker options not interpretable directly by `Oban`.
*`retries` — keyword lists where keys are `Oban` queues (see above) and values are numbers of max attempts for failed jobs.
The above example defines a single job which invokes `Pleroma.Web.Websub.refresh_subscriptions()` every 6 hours ("0 */6 ** * *", [crontab format](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cron)).
## Pleroma.ScheduledActivity
*`daily_user_limit`: the number of scheduled activities a user is allowed to create in a single day (Default: `25`)
*`total_user_limit`: the number of scheduled activities a user is allowed to create in total (Default: `300`)
*`enabled`: whether scheduled activities are sent to the job queue to be executed
## Pleroma.ActivityExpiration
# `enabled`: whether expired activities will be sent to the job queue to be deleted
Feel free to adjust the priv_dir and port number. Then you will have to create the key for the keys (in the example `priv/ssh_keys`) and create the host keys with `ssh-keygen -m PEM -N "" -b 2048 -t rsa -f ssh_host_rsa_key`. After restarting, you should be able to connect to your Pleroma instance with `ssh username@server -p $PORT`
*`auth_template`: authentication form template. By default it's `show.html` which corresponds to `lib/pleroma/web/templates/o_auth/o_auth/show.html.eex`.
*`oauth_consumer_template`: OAuth consumer mode authentication form template. By default it's `consumer.html` which corresponds to `lib/pleroma/web/templates/o_auth/o_auth/consumer.html.eex`.
*`oauth_consumer_strategies`: the list of enabled OAuth consumer strategies; by default it's set by `OAUTH_CONSUMER_STRATEGIES` environment variable. Each entry in this space-delimited string should be of format `<strategy>` or `<strategy>:<dependency>` (e.g. `twitter` or `keycloak:ueberauth_keycloak_strategy` in case dependency is named differently than `ueberauth_<strategy>`).
## :email_notifications
Email notifications settings.
- digest - emails of "what you've missed" for users who have been
inactive for a while.
- active: globally enable or disable digest emails
- schedule: When to send digest email, in [crontab format](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cron).
"0 0 * * 0" is the default, meaning "once a week at midnight on Sunday morning"
- interval: Minimum interval between digest emails to one user
- inactivity_threshold: Minimum user inactivity threshold
## Pleroma.Emails.UserEmail
-`:logo` - a path to a custom logo. Set it to `nil` to use the default Pleroma logo.
-`:styling` - a map with color settings for email templates.
## OAuth consumer mode
OAuth consumer mode allows sign in / sign up via external OAuth providers (e.g. Twitter, Facebook, Google, Microsoft, etc.).
Implementation is based on Ueberauth; see the list of [available strategies](https://github.com/ueberauth/ueberauth/wiki/List-of-Strategies).
Note: each strategy is shipped as a separate dependency; in order to get the strategies, run `OAUTH_CONSUMER_STRATEGIES="..." mix deps.get`,
e.g. `OAUTH_CONSUMER_STRATEGIES="twitter facebook google microsoft" mix deps.get`.
The server should also be started with `OAUTH_CONSUMER_STRATEGIES="..." mix phx.server` in case you enable any strategies.
Note: each strategy requires separate setup (on external provider side and Pleroma side). Below are the guidelines on setting up most popular strategies.
Note: make sure that `"SameSite=Lax"` is set in `extra_cookie_attrs` when you have this feature enabled. OAuth consumer mode will not work with `"SameSite=Strict"`
* For Twitter, [register an app](https://developer.twitter.com/en/apps), configure callback URL to https://<your_host>/oauth/twitter/callback
* For Facebook, [register an app](https://developers.facebook.com/apps), configure callback URL to https://<your_host>/oauth/facebook/callback, enable Facebook Login service at https://developers.facebook.com/apps/<app_id>/fb-login/settings/
* For Google, [register an app](https://console.developers.google.com), configure callback URL to https://<your_host>/oauth/google/callback
* For Microsoft, [register an app](https://portal.azure.com), configure callback URL to https://<your_host>/oauth/microsoft/callback
Once the app is configured on external OAuth provider side, add app's credentials and strategy-specific settings (if any — e.g. see Microsoft below) to `config/prod.secret.exs`,
per strategy's documentation (e.g. [ueberauth_twitter](https://github.com/ueberauth/ueberauth_twitter)). Example config basing on environment variables:
*`token_expires_in` - The lifetime in seconds of the access token.
*`issue_new_refresh_token` - Keeps old refresh token or generate new refresh token when to obtain an access token.
*`clean_expired_tokens` - Enable a background job to clean expired oauth tokens. Defaults to `false`.
*`clean_expired_tokens_interval` - Interval to run the job to clean expired tokens. Defaults to `86_400_000` (24 hours).
## :emoji
*`shortcode_globs`: Location of custom emoji files. `*` can be used as a wildcard. Example `["/emoji/custom/**/*.png"]`
*`pack_extensions`: A list of file extensions for emojis, when no emoji.txt for a pack is present. Example `[".png", ".gif"]`
*`groups`: Emojis are ordered in groups (tags). This is an array of key-value pairs where the key is the groupname and the value the location or array of locations. `*` can be used as a wildcard. Example `[Custom: ["/emoji/*.png", "/emoji/custom/*.png"]]`
*`default_manifest`: Location of the JSON-manifest. This manifest contains information about the emoji-packs you can download. Currently only one manifest can be added (no arrays).
*`rum_enabled`: If RUM indexes should be used. Defaults to `false`.
RUM indexes are an alternative indexing scheme that is not included in PostgreSQL by default. While they may eventually be mainlined, for now they have to be installed as a PostgreSQL extension from https://github.com/postgrespro/rum.
Their advantage over the standard GIN indexes is that they allow efficient ordering of search results by timestamp, which makes search queries a lot faster on larger servers, by one or two orders of magnitude. They take up around 3 times as much space as GIN indexes.
To enable them, both the `rum_enabled` flag has to be set and the following special migration has to be run:
A keyword list of rate limiters where a key is a limiter name and value is the limiter configuration. The basic configuration is a tuple where:
* The first element: `scale` (Integer). The time scale in milliseconds.
* The second element: `limit` (Integer). How many requests to limit in the time scale provided.
It is also possible to have different limits for unauthenticated and authenticated users: the keyword value must be a list of two tuples where the first one is a config for unauthenticated users and the second one is for authenticated.
Supported rate limiters:
*`:search` for the search requests (account & status search etc.)
*`:app_account_creation` for registering user accounts from the same IP address
*`:relations_actions` for actions on relations with all users (follow, unfollow)
*`:relation_id_action` for actions on relation with a specific user (follow, unfollow)
*`:statuses_actions` for create / delete / fav / unfav / reblog / unreblog actions on any statuses
*`:status_id_action` for fav / unfav or reblog / unreblog actions on the same status by the same user
## :web_cache_ttl
The expiration time for the web responses cache. Values should be in milliseconds or `nil` to disable expiration.
Available caches:
*`:activity_pub` - activity pub routes (except question activities). Defaults to `nil` (no expiration).
`Pleroma.Plugs.RemoteIp` is a shim to call [`RemoteIp`](https://git.pleroma.social/pleroma/remote_ip) but with runtime configuration.
Available options:
*`enabled` - Enable/disable the plug. Defaults to `false`.
*`headers` - A list of strings naming the `req_headers` to use when deriving the `remote_ip`. Order does not matter. Defaults to `~w[forwarded x-forwarded-for x-client-ip x-real-ip]`.
*`proxies` - A list of strings in [CIDR](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CIDR) notation specifying the IPs of known proxies. Defaults to `[]`.
*`reserved` - Defaults to [localhost](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Localhost) and [private network](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private_network).
