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.

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@Friendica Support hello, i would like some help please to understand how to solve my confusion about the "right" way to follow #hashtags, using #Channels ... or otherwise some better way.

i follow a large number of hashtags [as a glance at my profile would attest]. afaict / afaik, fediverse posts bearing these tags appear [or are supposed to] in my "Network" timeline [with "Everybody" Circle & "Latest posts" Channel selected].

of my many tags, possibly my most "important" ones are #AusPol, #FOSS, & #Linux. in order to be able to efficiently locate all posts with these tags each day, rather than have to meticulously scroll down the full "Network" timeline [which is dissipated via also having all the other tags, & all my Followed accounts' posts], in Settings i created three dedicated Channels [one for each of those tags, ofc]. then i added each of those custom Channels to my Timelines, in Display Settings.

however, the result is just hopeless; really disappointing & frustrating. over recent years i have had several Friendica accounts, ie, at several instances, & doing the above has never worked properly in any of them, not only my current instance.

using the AusPol Channel for example, as it is the worst by far, every time i check it, its most recent post is several hours old, & often as bad as 12 - 18 hours old, with numerous other posts entirely missing.

i say "missing" because otoh, reviewing my Saved Search for #AusPol shows all these other posts, which therefore also appear, buried, in my full "Network" timeline.

over the months & years in exasperation, i have revisited the dedicated Channels in Settings, & for the Circle/Channel field have tried each of Latest posts, Latest Creation, Global community, & Latest activity, but none of them has solved the problem [indeed, a few make it even worse!].

please, what am i doing wrong? what aspect of Friendica's Settings have i been consistently misunderstanding / misusing, that causes this disappointment?

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A specter is haunting the world. The specter of open source.

It's incredible how the open source scene and the federated internet have developed over the past five years. Linux and the entire ecosystem surrounding it have long since evolved from a hobbyist's playground for nerds into the most modern, sexiest, and adaptable operating system around. Apple and Microsoft are now just dinosaurs from a bygone era.

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Both KDE and Valve are working on seamless integration of (Android) mobile apps. Thanks to KDE Connect, I can no longer imagine thinking of my cell phone and desktop as separate entities. Valve has proven with Proton that they can do this. The year of the Linux phone is just around the corner. ;)

It will also be very exciting to see how the Steam Machine develops. If it is a success, a whole new generation of Linux users will emerge. All in all, this is an incredibly positive development.

Even the most reactionary people will eventually realize that DeepSeek is a democratized LLM with an open license, or they will simply go under. Which wouldn't be so bad.

All in all, an edifying development. Important for success is a solid structure that has been able to grow peacefully over decades, and Mastodon has also strongly fueled this idea as “propaganda of the deed,” and I would also like to believe that my essay “Radical Enlightenment – A World of Open Sources” also played a part in this. Let the revolution begin!

https://word.undead-network.de/2025/12/16/the-revolution-begins/
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We were able to finally move our entire TROM.tf to a new server. Some 2-3TB of data.

Old server: i7-6700 CPU @ 3.40GHz, 8 cores, 32GB RAM, 2 x 1.8TB SSD. 46 Euros a month.
New one, same CPU but 1 x 1TB SSD + 2 x4TB HDD. 54 Euros a month.

We are using the HDDs as one, around 7.5TB of storage in total, for storing the data for Peertube and Nextcloud. This allows us to expand the storage for these ones 2-3 times more than on the previous server. Retrieving data from HDDs in this case is totally fine and we see no slow down of these services.

Thanks to that we enabled one more resolution, 480p, for our Peertube instance. 3 in total now. Will only be available for the newly uploaded videos.

We also have a new IP so emails can reach Gmail from our server, finally...but we have disabled "import with URL" for our Peertube to protect this IP from getting banned.

Overall it was a very difficult process to move to the new server and our TROM Git still cannot be restored....we need to fix that. We need to also keep an eye on the other services and make sure all works well.

We were able to move to a new server thanks to the donations we got recently. Thank you!

We are paying some 8 Euros more a month now for the new one, but it is worth it.

Anyway, enjoy trom.tf and stay tuned because we will offer more storage space for our Nextcloud soon! 😀 For anyone who wants ;)

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