Test your Relay

We'll use the CLI tool nak to test our relay. You can test the relay from the relay itself or from a separate device, e.g., your laptop.

If you don't have nak installed, you can do so by running:

go install github.com/fiatjaf/nak@latest

If you don't have Go installed on the device you want to test the relay from, you can download the latest release and learn how to install it on your preferred device from the Download and install page.

Test Event

Since Khatru Pyramid uses an invite hierarchy, to test the relay we need to use the secret key of one of the public keys you have added to the users.json file. Initially, the file will contain the public key set in the khatru-pyramid.env file, so you can use that public key's secret key when testing your relay.

Be sure to sign the event securely, i.e., don't let anyone, any camera, etc. see your secret key, clear your clipboard if you're copying and pasting the value, turn off your terminal history, etc.

If you're using bash, you can temporarily turn off the history for the current shell session by running:

set +o history

If you're using zsh, you can turn off the history by running:

unset HISTFILE

Then send an event to the relay:

nak --sec <your-secret-key> event -c 'testing relay' relay.relayrunner.xyz

Be sure to replace <your-secret-key> with your secret key. The secret key can be passed as a hex, nsec, or ncryptsec. Also, be sure to replace relay.relayrunner.xyz with the domain you set up with your relay.

Check if the event was received by the relay:

nak req -k 1 -l 1 relay.relayrunner.xyz

You should see an event with the content testing relay:

{
  "kind": 1,
  "id": "4571b153344adb8cd77a605ca99d0cd26c33d17eeb2ee4112d1dd5afc5bb8189",
  "pubkey": "df8cb2c6d7fbdf57bd08854efa1c1291c9355730512ef0573a844fb88b869a36",
  "created_at": 1728690813,
  "tags": [],
  "content": "testing relay",
  "sig": "9206e5538d16bb7a05d898a22104f44c3c9cfe9ef5fceb852b058bf93dd021bbfd28c22f5b67b2ce9e721f982d54671e6038ba6635835bbff367ba9e878228ba"
}

If you were able to successfully send an event to your relay and you're using bash, you can turn on the history for the current shell session by running:

set -o history

If you're using zsh you can exit the current shell session where the history is disabled by running:

exit