Installing a self-hosted instance of Commento can be divided into three logical steps:

• : The first step deals with installing Commento’s binary and files on your server and involves getting the backend running. This may be done with release binaries, , or by compiling from source.

• : Finally, after registering your website, you can install Commento on your website to let your readers interact with your Commento instance. For now, Commento supports just one method of embedding: a universal tag that requires you to embed a tag in your HTML. In the future, there will be direct plugin support for common platforms such as Wordpress, Blogger, Wix, and Ghost.

An Example

Here’s an example to clear things up. Let’s say your blog is blog.example.com and you want to add Commento to this website. Let’s say is the address of the server where you’ll be hosting the Commento server.

2. Once you’re logged into the admin interface, you need to register your website blog.example.com so that Commento can serve requests.

And that’s it! You can to suit your needs; add moderators, change the appearance, configure email settings, set up OAuth providers, and more!