Waline-mini is a lightweight Rust implementation of the Waline comment system, using 95% less memory than its Node.js counterpart and serving as an efficient alternative for resource-constrained servers.
In my Ubuntu server, the waline-mini requires only about 5612Kb=5.48MB of memory
- Extremely low memory usage: Just 1/25 of the Node.js version's memory footprint.
- Seamless replacement: Drop-in alternative to the original Waline.
- Synchronized development: Keeping pace with the original Waline's evolution.
From GitHub Releases to download the binary file is appropriate for your platform.
# Setting environment variables
export HOST=127.0.0.1
export PORT=8360
export DATABASE_URL=sqlite:///path/to/waline.sqlite
export JWT_KEY=your_secret_key
# Start
./waline-miniConfigure waline-mini with environment variables:
| Environment variable | Description | Require | Default |
|---|---|---|---|
| HOST | listening host | ✅ | - |
| PORT | listening port | ✅ | - |
| DATABASE_URL | SQLite and MySQL/MariaDB are supported. protocol://username:password@host/database |
✅ | - |
| JWT_KEY | A random string is used to generate the JWT Signature key | ✅ | - |
| SITE_NAME | Site name | ✅ | - |
| SITE_URL | Site url | ✅ | - |
| SERVER_URL | Custom Waline server address | auto | |
| WORKERS | Worker thread count | 1 | |
| LEVELS | Give each user a rating label based on the number of comments | - | |
| SMTP_SERVICE | SMTP mail service provider | - | |
| SMTP_HOST | SMTP server address | - | |
| SMTP_PORT | SMTP server port | - | |
| SMTP_USER | SMTP username | - | |
| SMTP_PASS | SMTP Password | - | |
| AUTHOR_EMAIL | The blogger’s email, used to judge whether posted comment is posted by the blogger.If it is posted by the blogger, there will be no reminder notification | - | |
| IPQPS | IP-based comment posting frequency limit in seconds. Set to 0 for no limit |
60 | |
| COMMENT_AUDIT | Comment audit switcher. When enabled, every comment needs to be approved by admin, so hint in placeholder is recommended | false |
| Feature | Availability | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Pageview Counter | Fully Available | Stable |
| Article Reactions | Fully Available | Stable |
| Comment Format Support | Fully Available | Stable |
| User label | Fully Available | Stable |
| I18n Support | Nearly Available | In Progress |
| Email Notification | Nearly Available | In Progress |
| Security: XSS | Fully Available | Stable |
| Security: Frequency Limit | Fully Available | Stable |
| Security: Prevent flooding | Fully Available | Stable |
| Security: Comment Review | Fully Available | Stable |