Configuration files for the folk.zone IRC service.

```yaml folkzone-irc-ergo:

image: ghcr.io/ergochat/ergo:stable
container_name: folkzone-irc-ergo
restart: unless-stopped
networks: [folkzone_net]
ports:
  - "6667:6667"
  - "6697:6697"
volumes:
  - folkzone_irc_ergo_data:/ircd
environment:
  TZ: America/Edmonton

folkzone-irc-lounge:

image: ghcr.io/thelounge/thelounge:latest
container_name: folkzone-irc-lounge
restart: unless-stopped
networks: [folkzone_net]
depends_on:
  folkzone-irc-ergo:
    condition: service_started
environment:
  TZ: America/Edmonton
volumes:
  - folkzone_irc_lounge_data:/thelounge
  - ./irc/config.js:/var/opt/thelounge/config.js:ro

```

File: irc/config.js

```javascript module.exports = {

public: true,
defaults: {
	name: "folk.zone IRC",
	host: "folkzone-irc-ergo",
	port: 6667,
	tls: false,
	rejectUnauthorized: false,
	nick: "",
	username: "",
	password: "",
	realname: "",
	join: "#general",
	encoding: "utf-8",
},
maxHistory: 1000,
prefetch: true,
prefetchStorage: true,
webirc: {
	host: "irc.folk.zone",
	password: "",
},

}; ```

```caddyfile irc.folk.zone {

reverse_proxy folkzone-irc-lounge:9000 {
  header_up Host {host}
  header_up X-Real-IP {remote}
  header_up X-Forwarded-For {remote}
  header_up X-Forwarded-Proto {scheme}
}
header {
  X-Content-Type-Options nosniff
  X-Frame-Options SAMEORIGIN
  X-XSS-Protection "1; mode=block"
  Referrer-Policy strict-origin-when-cross-origin
}

}

irc-direct.folk.zone {

respond * "Use your IRC client to connect to irc-direct.folk.zone:6697 (TLS required)" 200

} ```

Ergo generates its own default config on first startup. See Setup Process for how to customize it.

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Last updated: 2026-06-20

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