A simple way to accept tips via the Lightning Network on your website.
To get all necessary files for setting up LightningTip you can either download a prebuilt version or compile from source.
LightningTip is using LND as backend. Please make sure it is installed and fully synced before you install LightningTip.
The default config file location is $HOME/.lightningtip/lightningTip.conf. The sample config contains everything you need to know about the configuration. To use a custom config file location use the flag --config filename. You can use all keys in the config as command line flag. Command line flags always override values in the config.
The next step is embedding LightningTip on your website. Upload all files excluding lightningTip.html to your webserver. Copy the contents of the head tag from lightningTip.html into the head section of the HTML file you want to show LightningTip in. The div below the head tag is LightningTip itself. Paste it into any place in the already edited HTML file on your server.
Make sure that the executable of LightningTip is always running in the background. It is an API to connect LND and the widget on your website. Do not open the URL you are running LightingTip on in your browser. All this will do is show an error.
If you are not running LightningTip on the same domain or IP address as your webserver, or not on port 8081, change the variable requestUrl (which is in the first line) in the file lightningTip.js accordingly.
When using LightningTip behind a proxy make sure the proxy supports EventSource. Without support for it the users will not see the "Thank you for your tip!" screen.
That's it! The only two things you need to take care about is keeping the LND node online and making sure that your incoming channels are sufficiently funded to receive tips. LightningTip will take care of everything else.
First of all make sure Golang and Dep are both correctly installed. Golang version 1.10 or newer is recommended.
go get github.com/michael1011/lightningtip cd $GOPATH/src/github.com/michael1011/lightningtip dep ensure go install To start run $GOPATH/bin/lightningtip or follow the instructions below to setup a service to run LightningTip automatically.
Make sure you stop any running LightningTip process before upgrading, then pull from source as follows:
cd $GOPATH/src/github.com/michael1011/lightningtip git pull dep ensure go install LightningTip can be started automatically via Systemd, or Supervisord, as outlined in the following wiki documentation:
In instances where the default LightningTip SSL configuration options are not working, you may want to explore running a reverse proxy to LightningTip as outlined in the following wiki documentation:
