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@@ -240,21 +240,28 @@ especially if you've previously installed PHP/MySQL packages. configure virtual hosts on your web server, you can try setting up "http://micro.example.net/" or the like. -3. You should also take this moment to make your avatar subdirectory - writeable by the Web server. An insecure way to do this is: +3. Make your target directory writeable by the Web server. - chmod a+w /var/www/mublog/avatar + chmod a+w /var/www/mublog/ On some systems, this will probably work: - chgrp www-data /var/www/mublog/avatar - chmod g+w /var/www/mublog/avatar + chgrp www-data /var/www/mublog/ + chmod g+w /var/www/mublog/ If your Web server runs as another user besides "www-data", try that user's default group instead. As a last resort, you can create - a new group like "avatar" and add the Web server's user to the group. + a new group like "mublog" and add the Web server's user to the group. -4. Create a database to hold your microblog data. Something like this +4. You should also take this moment to make your avatar subdirectory + writeable by the Web server. An insecure way to do this is: + + chmod a+w /var/www/mublog/avatar + + You can also make the avatar directory writeable by the Web server + group, as noted above. + +5. Create a database to hold your microblog data. Something like this should work: mysqladmin -u "username" --password="password" create laconica @@ -267,63 +274,55 @@ especially if you've previously installed PHP/MySQL packages. a tool like PHPAdmin to create a database. Check your hosting service's documentation for how to create a new MySQL database.) -5. Run the laconica.sql SQL script in the db subdirectory to create - the database tables in the database. A typical system would work - like this: - - mysql -u "username" --password="password" laconica < /var/www/mublog/db/laconica.sql - - You may want to test by logging into the database and checking that - the tables were created. Here's an example: - - SHOW TABLES; - 6. Create a new database account that Laconica will use to access the database. If you have shell access, this will probably work from the MySQL shell: - GRANT SELECT,INSERT,DELETE,UPDATE on laconica.* + GRANT ALL on laconica.* TO 'lacuser'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'lacpassword'; You should change 'lacuser' and 'lacpassword' to your preferred new - username and password. You may want to test logging in as this new - user and testing that you can SELECT from some of the tables in the - DB (use SHOW TABLES to see which ones are there). - -7. Copy the config.php.sample in the Laconica directory to config.php. - -8. Edit config.php to set the basic configuration for your system. - (See descriptions below for basic config options.) Note that there - are lots of options and if you try to do them all at once, you will - have a hard time making sure what's working and what's not. So, - stick with the basics at first. In particular, customizing the - 'site' and 'db' settings will almost definitely be needed. - -9. At this point, you should be able to navigate in a browser to your - microblog's main directory and see the "Public Timeline", which - will be empty. If not, magic has happened! You can now register a - new user, post some notices, edit your profile, etc. However, you - may want to wait to do that stuff if you think you can set up - "fancy URLs" (see below), since some URLs are stored in the database. + username and password. You may want to test logging in to MySQL as + this new user. + +7. In a browser, navigate to the Laconica install script; something like: + + http://yourserver.example.com/mublog/install.php + + Enter the database connection information and your site name. The + install program will configure your site and install the initial, + almost-empty database. + +8. You should now be able to navigate to your microblog's main directory + and see the "Public Timeline", which will be empty. If not, magic + has happened! You can now register a new user, post some notices, + edit your profile, etc. However, you may want to wait to do that stuff + if you think you can set up "fancy URLs" (see below), since some + URLs are stored in the database. Fancy URLs ---------- -By default, Laconica will have big long sloppy URLs that are hard for -people to remember or use. For example, a user's home profile might be +By default, Laconica will use URLs that include the main PHP program's +name in them. For example, a user's home profile might be found at: - http://example.org/mublog/index.php?action=showstream&nickname=fred + http://example.org/mublog/index.php/mublog/fred + +On certain systems that don't support this kind of syntax, they'll +look like this: + + http://example.org/mublog/index.php?p=mublog/fred It's possible to configure the software so it looks like this instead: http://example.org/mublog/fred These "fancy URLs" are more readable and memorable for users. To use -fancy URLs, you must either have Apache 2.2.x with .htaccess enabled -and mod_redirect enabled, -OR- know how to configure "url redirection" -in your server. +fancy URLs, you must either have Apache 2.x with .htaccess enabled and +mod_redirect enabled, -OR- know how to configure "url redirection" in +your server. 1. Copy the htaccess.sample file to .htaccess in your Laconica directory. Note: if you have control of your server's httpd.conf or @@ -348,10 +347,6 @@ like: If you changed your HTTP server configuration, you may need to restart the server first. -If you have problems with the .htaccess file on versions of Apache -earlier than 2.2.x, try changing the regular expressions in the -htaccess.sample file that use "\w" to just use ".". - Sphinx ------ @@ -561,7 +556,7 @@ Sample cron job: # Update Twitter friends subscriptions every half hour 0,30 * * * * /path/to/php /path/to/laconica/scripts/synctwitterfriends.php>&/dev/null -Built-in Facebook Application +Built-in Facebook Application ----------------------------- Laconica's Facebook application allows your users to automatically @@ -575,7 +570,7 @@ above). Quick setup instructions*: -Install the Facebook Developer application on Facebook: +Install the Facebook Developer application on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/developers/ @@ -648,7 +643,7 @@ to these resources. Themes ------ -There are two themes shipped with this version of Laconica: "stoica", +There are two themes shipped with this version of Laconica: "identica", which is what the Identi.ca site uses, and "default", which is a good basis for other sites. |