Install your own ntfy server

The following steps are only required if you want to self-host your own ntfy server. If you just want to send messages using ntfy.sh, you don't need to install anything. Just use curl or your favorite HTTP client.

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/config.yml (see configuration)
Then just run it with ntfy (or systemctl start ntfy when using the deb/rpm).

Binaries and packages

Please check out the releases page for binaries and deb/rpm packages.

x86_64/amd64:

wget https://github.com/binwiederhier/ntfy/releases/download/v1.5.0/ntfy_1.5.0_linux_x86_64.tar.gz
sudo tar -C /usr/bin -zxf ntfy_*.tar.gz ntfy

armv7:

wget https://github.com/binwiederhier/ntfy/releases/download/v1.5.0/ntfy_1.5.0_linux_armv7.tar.gz
sudo tar -C /usr/bin -zxf ntfy_*.tar.gz ntfy

arm64/v8:

wget https://github.com/binwiederhier/ntfy/releases/download/v1.5.0/ntfy_1.5.0_linux_arm64.tar.gz
sudo tar -C /usr/bin -zxf ntfy_*.tar.gz ntfy

Debian/Ubuntu repository

Installation via Debian repository:

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

Manually installing the .deb file:

wget https://github.com/binwiederhier/ntfy/releases/download/v1.5.0/ntfy_1.5.0_amd64.deb
dpkg -i ntfy_1.5.0_amd64.deb

Fedora/RHEL/CentOS

rpm -ivh https://github.com/binwiederhier/ntfy/releases/download/v1.5.0/ntfy_1.5.0_amd64.rpm

Docker

The ntfy 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/config.yml.

Basic usage (no cache or additional config):

docker run -p 80:80 -it binwiederhier/ntfy

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

With other config options (configured via /etc/ntfy/config.yml, see configuration for details):

docker run \
  -v /etc/ntfy:/etc/ntfy \
  -p 80:80 \
  -it \
  binwiederhier/ntfy

Go

To install via Go, simply run:

go install heckel.io/ntfy@latest

!!! info Please let me know if there are any issues with this installation method. The SQLite bindings require CGO and it works for me, but I have the feeling it may not work for everyone.

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