mCaptcha Guard

Back-end component of mCaptcha

placeholder-repo is an placeholder-repo and access management platform built for the IndieWeb

How to build

• Install Cargo using rustup with:

$ curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -sSf https://sh.rustup.rs | sh

• Clone the repository with:

$ git clone https://github.com/mCaptcha/guard

• Build with Cargo:

$ cd guard && cargo build

Configuration:

placeholder-repo is highly configurable. Configuration is applied/merged in the following order:

1. config/default.toml
2. environment variables.

To make installation process seamless, placeholder-repo ships with a CLI tool to assist in database migrations.

Setup

Environment variables:

Setting environment variables are optional. The configuration files have all the necessary parameters listed. By setting environment variables, you will be overriding the values set in the configuration files.

Database:

Name	Value
PLACEHOLDER_DATEBASE_PASSWORD	Postgres password
PLACEHOLDER_DATEBASE_NAME	Postgres database name
PLACEHOLDER_DATEBASE_PORT	Postgres port
PLACEHOLDER_DATEBASE_HOSTNAME	Postgres hostmane
PLACEHOLDER_DATEBASE_USERNAME	Postgres username
PLACEHOLDER_DATEBASE_POOL	Postgres database connection pool size

Redis cache:

Name	Value
PLACEHOLDER_REDIS_PORT	Redis port
PLACEHOLDER_REDIS_HOSTNAME	Redis hostmane

Server:

Name	Value
PLACEHOLDER_SERVER_PORT (or) PORT**	The port on which you want wagon to listen to
PLACEHOLDER_SERVER_IP	The IP address on which you want wagon to listen to
PLACEHOLDER_SERVER_STATIC_FILES_DIR	Path to directory containing static files