Hubzilla Hub for YunoHost

Hubzilla

Hubzilla is a powerful platform for creating interconnected websites featuring a decentralized identity, communications, and permissions framework built using common webserver technology.

Current snapshot in sources:

https://github.com/redmatrix/hubzilla: 3.2.2 (commit 8e46b072684d85d25037d9366f2507b4d171e7e8)
https://github.com/redmatrix/hubzilla-addons: 3.2.2 (commit 6db8413d4209e6b56313b827632b6c132b82875a)

To-Do's

Installation and remove script.
Ldap integration.
Upgrade script.
Backup and restore script(Need to be tested,but hopefully will work).
Remove the admin email,path and is_public form installation form.
Stop modification of php.ini : exec().
Make changes to nginx configuration accouding to Hubzilla official guide.
Force redirection to https by default.

Important Notes

Before installing, read the Hubzilla installation instructions for important information about

SSL certificate validation requirement (now with support for Let's Encrypt!). See Installation section below.
Dedicated domain (must install under web root like https://hub.example.com/ not https://example.com/hub/ )
Required packages (all of these are not yet installed by this YunoHost installer package). This YunoHost package installs the following additional packages:
- php5-cli
- php5-imagick
- php5-gd
- php5-mcrypt
This package requires a system-wide change to php.ini that enables the exec() perimission. See the PHP manual for more information.

Installation

Register a new domain and add it to YunoHost

Hubzilla requires a dedicated domain, so obtain one and add it using the YunoHost admin panel. Domains -> Add domain. As Hubzilla uses the full domain and is installed on the root, you can create a subdomain such as hubzilla.domain.tld. Don't forget to update your DNS if you manage them manually.

Hubzilla requires browser-approved SSL certificates. If you have certificates not issued by Let's Encrypt, install them manually as usual.

YunoHost >= 2.5 :

Once the dedicated domain has been added to YunoHost, go again to the admin panel, go to domains then select your domain and click on "Install Let's Encrypt certificate".

Yunohost < 2.5 :

For older versions of YunoHost, once you have added the new domain, SSH into your YunoHost server and perform the following steps:

Install certbot to make installing free SSL certificates from Let's Encrypt simple.
Stop nginx
```
 service nginx stop
```
Run the certbot utility with the certonly option
```
 certbot certonly
```

Copy the generated certificate and key into the appropriate location for YunoHost to use

 cp /etc/letsencrypt/live/YOUR_DOMAIN/fullchain.pem /etc/yunohost/certs/YOUR_DOMAIN/crt.pem
 cp /etc/letsencrypt/live/YOUR_DOMAIN/privkey.pem /etc/yunohost/certs/YOUR_DOMAIN/key.pem

Restart nginx
```
 service nginx start
```

Install the Hubzilla application

Use the YunoHost admin panel to install Hubzilla by entering the GitHub repo address in the custom app URL

	https://github.com/YunoHost-Apps/hubzilla_ynh

Make sure to select your domain from the previous section as the application domain.

When installation is complete, you will need to visit your new hub's page and login with the admin account which was entered at the time of installation process. You should then be able to create your first channel and have the admin rights for the hub.

For normal YunoHost users: Normal LDAP users can login through Ldap authentication and create there channels.

If the admin cannot access the admin settings: If you cannot access the admin settings at https://hub.example.com/admin when you log in as the administrator, or you want to grant admin rights to any other user(s) on the hub, then you have to manually add 4096 to the account_roles under accounts for that user in the database through phpMYAdmin.

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