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Hubzilla at Home next to your Router
Run hubzilla-setup.sh for an unattended installation of hubzilla.
The script is known to work with Debian 8.3 stable (Jessie)
- Home-PC (Debian-8.3.0-amd64)
- DigitalOcean droplet (Debian 8.3 x64 / 512 MB Memory / 20 GB Disk / NYC3)
Step-by-Step Overwiew
Preconditions
Hardware
- Internet connection and router at home
- Mini-pc connected to your router
- USB drive for backups
Software
- Fresh installation of Debian on your mini-pc
- Router with open ports 80 and 443 for your Debian
The basic steps (quick overview)
- Register your own domain (for example at selfHOST) or a free subdomain (for example at freeDNS)
- Log on to your new debian (server)
- apt-get install git
- mkdir -p /var/www
- cd /var/www
- git clone https://github.com/redmatrix/hubzilla.git html
- cp .homeinstall/hubzilla-config.txt.template .homeinstall/hubzilla-config.txt
- nano .homeinstall/hubzilla-config.txt
- Enter your values there: db pass, domain, values for dyn DNS
- hubzilla-setup.sh as root
- ... wait, wait, wait until the script is finised
- reboot
- Open your domain with a browser and step throught the initial configuration of hubzilla.
Step-by-Step in Detail
Preparations Hardware
Mini-PC
Recommended: USB Drive for Backups
The installation will create a daily backup.
If the backup process does not find an external device than the backup goes to the internal disk.
The USB drive must be compatible with an encrpyted filesystem LUKS + ext4.
Preparations Software
Install Debian Linux on the Mini-PC
Download the stable Debian at https://www.debian.org/
Create bootable USB drive with Debian on it. You could use the programm unetbootin, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UNetbootin
Switch of your mini pc, plug in your USB drive and start the mini pc from the stick. Install Debian. Follow the instructions of the installation.
Configure your Router
Open the ports 80 and 443 on your router for your Debian
Preparations Dynamic IP Address
Your Hubzilla must be reachable by a domain that you can type in your browser
cooldomain.org
You can use subdomains as well
my.cooldomain.org
There are two way to get a domain
- buy a domain (recommended) or
- register a free subdomain
Method 1: Get yourself an own Domain (recommended)
...for example at selfHOST.de
Method 2 Register a (free) Subdomain
Register a free subdomain for example at
- freeDNS
- selfHOST
WATCH THIS: A free subdomain is not the prefered way to get a domain name. Why?
Let's encrpyt issues a limited number of certificates each day. Possibly other users of this domain will try to issue a certificate at the same day as you do. So make sure you choose a domain with as less subdomains as possible.
Install Hubzilla on your Debian
Login to your debian (Provided your username is "you" and the name of the mini pc is "debian". You could take the IP address instead of "debian")
ssh -X you@debian
Change to root user
su -l
Install git
apt-get install git
Make the directory for apache and change diretory to it
mkdir /var/www
cd /var/www/
Clone hubzilla from git ("git pull" will update it later)
git clone https://github.com/redmatrix/hubzilla html
Change to the install script
cd html/.homeinstall/
Copy the template file
cp hubzilla-config.txt.template hubzilla-config.txt
Change the file "hubzilla-config.txt". Read the instructions there and enter your values.
nano hubzilla-config.txt
Run the script
./hubzilla-setup.sh
Wait... The script should not finish with an error message.
In a webbrowser open your domain. Expected: A test page of hubzilla is shown. All checks there shoulg be successfull. Go on... Expected: A page for the Hubzilla server configuration shows up.
Leave db server name "127.0.0.1" and port "0" untouched.
Enter
- DB user name = hubzilla
- DB pass word = This is the password you entered in "hubzilla-config.txt"
- DB name = hubzilla
Leave db type "MySQL" untouched.
Follow the instructions in the next pages.