me.untethr.nostr-relay

A nostr relay, written in Clojure.

Run

For a real deployment you'll want to deploy with ssl termination (eg ngnix) but for local testing, simply:

$ brew install clojure/tools/clojure
$ make run

The relay will be reachable at ws://localhost:9090 and data in a git-ignored ./n.db sqlite file

With various app metrics available at http://localhost:9090/metrics.

Edit ./conf/relay.yaml to change port, file, etc.

Known Deployments

• wss://nostr-relay.untethr.me

How to Deploy

$ make deploy-archive

This will produce a tar.gz archive with these contents:

me.untethr.nostr-relay.jar
conf/relay.yaml
conf/nip05.json
conf/nip11.json
conf/logback.xml

Unpack on server, update config files to your personal liking, and run:

$ java -Xms512m -Xmx1g \
    -Dlogback.configurationFile=conf/logback.xml \
    -cp me.untethr.nostr-relay.jar \
    clojure.main -m me.untethr.nostr.app

There are many ways to complete a deployment.

I deploy on Debian and use systemd to launch a script with the above java command.

conf/relay.yml controls which port the relay runs on. By default this is 9090; this is a fine default as you'll want to run something else exposed on well-known SSL port.

I use ngnix + https://letsencrypt.org/ for SSL termination and DDoS mitigation and configure it to talk to the relay process on port 9090.

Totally optionally but you may wish to limit access to /metrics and /q, eg, via basic auth.