nitter-ansible/README.md

nitter-ansible

Ansible playbook to install nitter

Requirements

• Latest stable version of Ansible (this was tested with Ansible 2.10.7)
• A Ubuntu 20.04 LTS server with a public IP
• A (sub)-domain name for Nitter with a valid A/AAAA record with aforementioned IP

How To Use

• Copy group_vars/all.sample to group_vars/all and edit the following variables:
  • NITTER_DOMAIN - your Nitter domain [MANDATORY]
  • NITTER_PORT - the port you want Nitter to run on, you can leave this on 8080 if you are unsure
  • NITTER_HMAC - you can generate a value for this on your Ansible host with pwgen -s 24 1
  • ACME_ACCOUNT_EMAIL - for SSL certificate expiry notices from LE if renewal fails
• Make a Ansible hosts file that looks like this:

[nitter]
nitter.example.com

• Run the playbook with ansible-playbook -i hosts site.yml