Ver. 05 | install and/or move friendica to ubuntu 22.04 LTS VPS server
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This tutorial is supposed to be published by the tutorial profile of this server.It is designed to have several chapters, each being distinctively seperated by an own titel. In total as of now there are like besides this introduction like 6 chapters.
posting and edition time of and by this EDIT profileof ver05 as of now 1hs
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@helpers@forum.friendi.ca SPOILER - click to open/close || Introduction
This tutorial is an adaption of the tutorial "creating a friendica server - ubuntu" by @Hank G ☑️ based on the experience of the installation report by @…ᘛ⁐̤ᕐᐷ jesuisatire bitPickup:https://squeet.me/display/962c3e10-5765-2e86-4a15-589579746174
and specific help by @Raroun.
Server specs and friendica version used:
VPS server | Ubuntu 22.04 LTS
PHP Version 8.1.2-1ubuntu2.14
4 Core CPU, 8 GB Ram with 300GB NVME Disk
Friendica [STABLE] | 'Giant Rhubarb' 2023.05 - 1518
SPOILER - click to open/close || Installation environment and HowTo
The only reasonable way to work with a VPSserver on the web is using the console.If you are not familiar with that don't worry, it is easy and the only thing you have to do is being able to copy/paste the commands displayed:
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Copy/paste only the codeBoxes like this one, located outside of the spoilers of this tutorial one after another without altering the sequence!Of course it is necessary to change the specific file names and passwords for you indiviual site, but that's all. promise!
On the console you wont be able to copy/paste with the keyboard ctrl-C/ctrl-V technique, you'll have to use the mouse "right click, chose option" technique.
This tutorial was created on a #debian #linux desktop environment.
There shouldn't be differences if you want to do this from a #windows machine.
The method used for communication between your local computer and the VPS server is called #SSH:
Wikipedia - Secure Shell:
"Cryptographic network protocol for secure data communication, remote shell services or command execution and other secure network services between two networked computers."
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friendica VPS setup on ubuntu 22.04 LTS
@Friendica Support
Hi,
I'm working on my first #friendica #VPS installation, here you'll find my initial post about general thoughts like what distro to use, size and costs.
I'm using the tutorial "creating a friendica server - ubuntu" by @Hank G ☑️.
As of now I'm doing well in the process and want to start this post to document differences and questions while installing the server.
This server is going to host an already existing friendica node I have to move from another hosting provider. That means that for example the DB doesn't have to be created from scratch but moved and other smaller details.
I will try to address the different steps of installation in answers to this post and appreciate help, ideas and observations.
I'm doing this from a #linux desktop environment from the console but there shouldn't be differences if you want to do this from a #windows machine.
#fediVerse #tutorial #fediHelp #activityPub
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•friendica installation
friendica installation on the VPS hosting
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Up to this point we basically performed a standard LAMP installation on a ubuntu 22.04 LTS VPS hosting.
The following steps concern the actual friendica server installation.
creating the directory for friendica and the user www-data
creat directories and permission for user www-data
back ground information what-is-var-www-html?https://stackoverflow.com/questions/16197663/what-is-var-www-htm
some general setup indications for the settings for several websites on the same server:
https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-set-up-apache-virtual-hosts-on-ubuntu-20-04
¡IMPORTANT!
The following command and setting should only be used if you are on a clean brand new ubuntu VPS setup as it will or at least might meddle with your already existing web page setups as @tom s politely pointed out:
"This would damage a lot of (server) installations out there. Do not do this in /var/www, if you are not really sure, what you're doing."
rootname@VPShosting:~#
sudo chown -R www-data:www-data /var/wwwrootname@VPShosting:~#
cd /var/wwwcreating user www-data and changing from user rootname to www-data
rootname@VPShosting:~/var/www#
sudo -u www-data bashwww-data@VPShosting:~$
(confirmation check if this is where console changes to www-data@VPShosting:~#)
moving (deactivating) the old /html folder
www-data@VPShosting:~$
mv html html.bakThe new /html folder will be created when we clone the gitHub stable branch of friendica in the next step.
cloning friendica from the gitHub repository
www-data@VPShosting:~$
git clone https://github.com/friendica/friendica.git -b stable htmlconfigure PHP dependencies
www-data@VPShosting:~$
cd htmlwww-data@VPShosting:~/html$
bin/composer.phar install --no-dev(is this the point the SSL install went wrong?)
https://squeet.me/display/962c3e10-1265-2ea9-912d-3cc762780991
creating folder for page view renderings
www-data@VPShosting:~/html$
mkdir -p view/smarty3www-data@VPShosting:~/html$
chmod 775 view/smarty3cloning the addons github repository
www-data@VPShosting:~/html$
git clone https://github.com/friendica/friendica-addons.git -b stable addonactivating .htaccess
www-data@VPShosting:~/html$
cp .htaccess-dist .htaccessexiting user www-data
www-data@VPShosting:~/html$
exitrootname@VPShosting:~/var/www/html#
#debian #linux #friendica #fediVerse #fediTutorial
…ᘛ⁐̤ᕐᐷ jesuisatire bitPickup
2023-10-17 15:34:41
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•tweaking apache configuration for friendica
allow overrides so dynamic pages can built correctly
rootname@VPShosting:/var/www/html#
sudo nano /etc/apache2/sites-available/000-default-le-ssl.confsearch for the line:
ctrl+W ->
DocumentRoot /var/www/htmladd the code snippet:
save the file "000-default-le-ssl.conf":
ctrl+X -> Y -> hit ENTER
edited 000-default-le-ssl.conf
<IfModule mod_ssl.c><VirtualHost *:443>
# The ServerName directive sets the request scheme, hostname and port that
# the server uses to identify itself. This is used when creating
# redirection URLs. In the context of virtual hosts, the ServerName
# specifies what hostname must appear in the request's Host: header to
# match this virtual host. For the default virtual host (this file) this
# value is not decisive as it is used as a last resort host regardless.
# However, you must set it for any further virtual host explicitly.
#ServerName www.example.com
ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost
DocumentRoot /var/www/html
<Directory /var/www/html>
AllowOverride All
</Directory>
# Available loglevels: trace8, ..., trace1, debug, info, notice, warn,
# error, crit, alert, emerg.
# It is also possible to configure the loglevel for particular
# modules, e.g.
#LogLevel info ssl:warn
ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/error.log
CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/access.log combined
# For most configuration files from conf-available/, which are
# enabled or disabled at a global level, it is possible to
# include a line for only one particular virtual host. For example the
# following line enables the CGI configuration for this host only
# after it has been globally disabled with "a2disconf".
#Include conf-available/serve-cgi-bin.conf
ServerName mydoman.com
SSLCertificateFile /etc/letsencrypt/live/mydoman.com/fullchain.pem
SSLCertificateKeyFile /etc/letsencrypt/live/mydoman.com/privkey.pem
Include /etc/letsencrypt/options-ssl-apache.conf
</VirtualHost>
</IfModule>
Edited 000-default-le-ssl.conf CODE
create php.error.log
rootname@ubuntu:~#
touch php.error.logtweaking basic settings:
editing php.ini
rootname@VPShosting:/var/www/html#
sudo nano /etc/php/8.1/apache2/php.inisearch for the following lines [ctrl+w] and modify the values:
search and modify the line :
ctrl+W ->
memory_limit =modify to:
memory_limit = 256Msearch and modify the line :
ctrl+W ->
upload_max_filesize =modify to:
upload_max_filesize = 100Msearch and modify the line :
ctrl+W ->
max_execution_time =modify to:
max_execution_time = 300search and modify the line :
ctrl+W ->
max_input_vars =modify to:
max_input_vars = 1500activate php.error.log
search:
ctrl+W ->
log_errorsunquote and and modify so it reads:
log_errors = On
; Default Value: Off
; Development Value: On
; Production Value: On
search:
ctrl+W ->
error_logunquote and and modify so it reads:
; Log errors to specified file. PHP's default behavior is to leave this value
; empty.
; https://php.net/error-log
; Example:
error_log = /var/www/html/php.error.log
; Log errors to syslog (Event Log on Windows).
; error_log = syslog
save the file "php.ini":
ctrl+X -> Y -> hit ENTER
restart apache and check the status
rootname@VPShosting:/var/www/html#
systemctl restart apache2rootname@VPShosting:/var/www/html#
systemctl status apache2check php.error.log
rootname@ubuntu:~#
rebootuser@localPC:~$
log into your VPShosting againrootname@ubuntu:~#
nano /var/www/html/php.error.logCongrats!
With this you have completed via SSH on the console all the installation steps necessary, now it's time to browse to your friendica web page and actually install and activate your node:
Go to your website and have a look at the short installation routine of friendica itself.
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