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Installing ntfy
The ntfy
CLI allows you to publish messages, subscribe to topics as well as to
self-host your own ntfy server. It's all pretty straight forward. Just install the binary, package or Docker image,
configure it and run it. Just like any other software. No fuzz.
!!! info
The following steps are only required if you want to self-host your own ntfy server or you want to use the ntfy CLI.
If you just want to send messages using ntfy.sh, you don't need to install anything. You can just use
curl
.
General steps
The ntfy server comes as a statically linked binary and is shipped as tarball, deb/rpm packages and as a Docker image. We support amd64, armv7 and arm64.
- Install ntfy using one of the methods described below
- Then (optionally) edit
/etc/ntfy/server.yml
for the server (Linux only, see configuration or sample server.yml) - Or (optionally) create/edit
~/.config/ntfy/client.yml
(or/etc/ntfy/client.yml
, see sample client.yml)
To run the ntfy server, then just run ntfy serve
(or systemctl start ntfy
when using the deb/rpm).
To send messages, use ntfy publish
. To subscribe to topics, use ntfy subscribe
(see [subscribing via CLI][subscribe/cli.md]
for details).
Linux binaries
Please check out the releases page for binaries and deb/rpm packages.
=== "x86_64/amd64"
bash wget https://github.com/binwiederhier/ntfy/releases/download/v1.22.0/ntfy_1.22.0_linux_x86_64.tar.gz tar zxvf ntfy_1.22.0_linux_x86_64.tar.gz sudo cp -a ntfy_1.22.0_linux_x86_64/ntfy /usr/bin/ntfy sudo mkdir /etc/ntfy && sudo cp ntfy_1.22.0_linux_x86_64/{client,server}/*.yml /etc/ntfy sudo ntfy serve
=== "armv6"
bash wget https://github.com/binwiederhier/ntfy/releases/download/v1.22.0/ntfy_1.22.0_linux_armv6.tar.gz tar zxvf ntfy_1.22.0_linux_armv6.tar.gz sudo cp -a ntfy_1.22.0_linux_armv6/ntfy /usr/bin/ntfy sudo mkdir /etc/ntfy && sudo cp ntfy_1.22.0_linux_armv6/{client,server}/*.yml /etc/ntfy sudo ntfy serve
=== "armv7/armhf"
bash wget https://github.com/binwiederhier/ntfy/releases/download/v1.22.0/ntfy_1.22.0_linux_armv7.tar.gz tar zxvf ntfy_1.22.0_linux_armv7.tar.gz sudo cp -a ntfy_1.22.0_linux_armv7/ntfy /usr/bin/ntfy sudo mkdir /etc/ntfy && sudo cp ntfy_1.22.0_linux_armv7/{client,server}/*.yml /etc/ntfy sudo ntfy serve
=== "arm64"
bash wget https://github.com/binwiederhier/ntfy/releases/download/v1.22.0/ntfy_1.22.0_linux_arm64.tar.gz tar zxvf ntfy_1.22.0_linux_arm64.tar.gz sudo cp -a ntfy_1.22.0_linux_arm64/ntfy /usr/bin/ntfy sudo mkdir /etc/ntfy && sudo cp ntfy_1.22.0_linux_arm64/{client,server}/*.yml /etc/ntfy sudo ntfy serve
Debian/Ubuntu repository
Installation via Debian repository:
=== "x86_64/amd64"
bash curl -sSL https://archive.heckel.io/apt/pubkey.txt | sudo apt-key add - sudo apt install apt-transport-https sudo sh -c "echo 'deb [arch=amd64] https://archive.heckel.io/apt debian main' \ > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/archive.heckel.io.list" sudo apt update sudo apt install ntfy sudo systemctl enable ntfy sudo systemctl start ntfy
=== "armv7/armhf"
bash curl -sSL https://archive.heckel.io/apt/pubkey.txt | sudo apt-key add - sudo apt install apt-transport-https sudo sh -c "echo 'deb [arch=armhf] https://archive.heckel.io/apt debian main' \ > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/archive.heckel.io.list" sudo apt update sudo apt install ntfy sudo systemctl enable ntfy sudo systemctl start ntfy
=== "arm64"
bash curl -sSL https://archive.heckel.io/apt/pubkey.txt | sudo apt-key add - sudo apt install apt-transport-https sudo sh -c "echo 'deb [arch=arm64] https://archive.heckel.io/apt debian main' \ > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/archive.heckel.io.list" sudo apt update sudo apt install ntfy sudo systemctl enable ntfy sudo systemctl start ntfy
Manually installing the .deb file:
=== "x86_64/amd64"
bash wget https://github.com/binwiederhier/ntfy/releases/download/v1.22.0/ntfy_1.22.0_linux_amd64.deb sudo dpkg -i ntfy_*.deb sudo systemctl enable ntfy sudo systemctl start ntfy
=== "armv6"
bash wget https://github.com/binwiederhier/ntfy/releases/download/v1.22.0/ntfy_1.22.0_linux_armv6.deb sudo dpkg -i ntfy_*.deb sudo systemctl enable ntfy sudo systemctl start ntfy
=== "armv7/armhf"
bash wget https://github.com/binwiederhier/ntfy/releases/download/v1.22.0/ntfy_1.22.0_linux_armv7.deb sudo dpkg -i ntfy_*.deb sudo systemctl enable ntfy sudo systemctl start ntfy
=== "arm64"
bash wget https://github.com/binwiederhier/ntfy/releases/download/v1.22.0/ntfy_1.22.0_linux_arm64.deb sudo dpkg -i ntfy_*.deb sudo systemctl enable ntfy sudo systemctl start ntfy
Fedora/RHEL/CentOS
=== "x86_64/amd64"
bash sudo rpm -ivh https://github.com/binwiederhier/ntfy/releases/download/v1.22.0/ntfy_1.22.0_linux_amd64.rpm sudo systemctl enable ntfy sudo systemctl start ntfy
=== "armv6"
bash sudo rpm -ivh https://github.com/binwiederhier/ntfy/releases/download/v1.22.0/ntfy_1.22.0_linux_armv6.rpm sudo systemctl enable ntfy sudo systemctl start ntfy
=== "armv7/armhf"
bash sudo rpm -ivh https://github.com/binwiederhier/ntfy/releases/download/v1.22.0/ntfy_1.22.0_linux_armv7.rpm sudo systemctl enable ntfy sudo systemctl start ntfy
=== "arm64"
bash sudo rpm -ivh https://github.com/binwiederhier/ntfy/releases/download/v1.22.0/ntfy_1.22.0_linux_arm64.rpm sudo systemctl enable ntfy sudo systemctl start ntfy
Arch Linux
ntfy can be installed using an AUR package. You can use an AUR helper like paru
, yay
or others to download, build and install ntfy and keep it up to date.
paru -S ntfysh-bin
Alternatively, run the following commands to install ntfy manually:
curl https://aur.archlinux.org/cgit/aur.git/snapshot/ntfysh-bin.tar.gz | tar xzv
cd ntfysh-bin
makepkg -si
macOS
The ntfy CLI (ntfy publish
and ntfy subscribe
only) is supported on macOS as well.
To install, please download the tarball, extract it and place it somewhere in your PATH
(e.g. /usr/local/bin/ntfy
).
If run as root
, ntfy will look for its config at /etc/ntfy/client.yml
. For all other users, it'll look for it at
~/Library/Application Support/ntfy/client.yml
(sample included in the tarball).
curl https://github.com/binwiederhier/ntfy/releases/download/v1.22.0/ntfy_v1.22.0_macOS_all.tar.gz > ntfy_v1.22.0_macOS_all.tar.gz
tar zxvf ntfy_v1.22.0_macOS_all.tar.gz
sudo cp -a ntfy_v1.22.0_macOS_all/ntfy /usr/local/bin/ntfy
mkdir ~/Library/Application\ Support/ntfy
cp ntfy_v1.22.0_macOS_all/client/client.yml ~/Library/Application\ Support/ntfy/client.yml
ntfy --help
!!! info If there is a desire to install ntfy via Homebrew, please create a GitHub issue to let me know.
Windows
The ntfy CLI (ntfy publish
and ntfy subscribe
only) is supported on Windows as well.
To install, please download the latest ZIP,
extract it and place the ntfy.exe
binary somewhere in your %Path%
.
The default path for the client config file is at %AppData%\ntfy\client.yml
(not created automatically, sample in the ZIP file).
!!! info There is currently no installer for Windows, and the binary is not signed. If this is desired, please create a GitHub issue to let me know.
Docker
The ntfy image is available for amd64, armv6, armv7 and arm64. It should be pretty straight forward to use.
The server exposes its web UI and the API on port 80, so you need to expose that in Docker. To use the persistent
message cache, you also need to map a volume to /var/cache/ntfy
. To change other settings,
you should map /etc/ntfy
, so you can edit /etc/ntfy/server.yml
.
Basic usage (no cache or additional config):
docker run -p 80:80 -it binwiederhier/ntfy serve
With persistent cache (configured as command line arguments):
docker run \
-v /var/cache/ntfy:/var/cache/ntfy \
-p 80:80 \
-it \
binwiederhier/ntfy \
--cache-file /var/cache/ntfy/cache.db \
serve
With other config options (configured via /etc/ntfy/server.yml
, see configuration for details):
docker run \
-v /etc/ntfy:/etc/ntfy \
-p 80:80 \
-it \
binwiederhier/ntfy \
serve
Using docker-compose:
version: "2.1"
services:
ntfy:
image: binwiederhier/ntfy
container_name: ntfy
command:
- serve
volumes:
- /var/cache/ntfy:/var/cache/ntfy
- /etc/ntfy:/etc/ntfy
ports:
- 80:80
restart: unless-stopped
Alternatively, you may wish to build a customized Docker image that can be run with fewer command-line arguments and without delivering the configuration file separately.
FROM binwiederhier/ntfy
COPY server.yml /etc/ntfy/server.yml
ENTRYPOINT ["ntfy", "serve"]
This image can be pushed to a container registry and shipped independently. All that's needed when running it is mapping ntfy's port to a host port.