Categories: friendica,VPS,github

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

¡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/www
rootname@VPShosting:~# cd /var/www

rootname@VPShosting:~/var/www# sudo -u www-data bash
www-data@VPShosting:~$
(confirmation check if this is where console changes to www-data@VPShosting:~#)

www-data@VPShosting:~$ mv html html.bak
The new /html folder will be created when we clone the gitHub stable branch of friendica in the next step.

www-data@VPShosting:~$ git clone https://github.com/friendica/friendica.git -b stable html

www-data@VPShosting:~$ cd html
www-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

www-data@VPShosting:~/html$ mkdir -p view/smarty3
www-data@VPShosting:~/html$ chmod 775 view/smarty3

www-data@VPShosting:~/html$ git clone https://github.com/friendica/friendica-addons.git -b stable addon

www-data@VPShosting:~/html$ cp .htaccess-dist .htaccess

www-data@VPShosting:~/html$ exit
rootname@VPShosting:~/var/www/html#

#debian #linux #friendica #fediVerse #fediTutorial

…ᘛ⁐̤ᕐᐷ jesuisatire bitPickup

2023-10-17 15:34:41

As of now I skipped this step as I do have already a DB with password and name on the original installation I will have to migrate to this new VPS.

@helpers@forum.friendi.ca

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

…ᘛ⁐̤ᕐᐷ jesuisatire bitPickup

2023-10-17 13:04:10

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

On my fresh #Debian 12 server:

# cat /var/log/README
You are looking for the traditional text log files in /var/log, and they are
gone?

Here's an explanation on what's going on:

You are running a systemd-based OS where traditional syslog has been replaced
with the Journal. The journal stores the same (and more) information as classic
syslog. To make use of the journal and access the collected log data simply
invoke "journalctl", which will output the logs in the identical text-based
format the syslog files in /var/log used to be. For further details, please
refer to journalctl(1).

Alternatively, consider installing one of the traditional syslog
implementations available for your distribution, which will generate the
classic log files for you. Syslog implementations such as syslog-ng or rsyslog
may be installed side-by-side with the journal and will continue to function
the way they always did.

Thank you!

Further reading:
        man:journalctl(1)
        man:systemd-journald.service(8)
        man:journald.conf(5)
        https://0pointer.de/blog/projects/the-journal.html

#systemd