StatusNet

What is StatusNet?

StatusNet is the open source microblogging platform that helps you share and connect in real-time within your own domain.

With StatusNet you can encourage collaboration, build and engage your community, and be in command of your brand.

Set up StatusNet on Alpine Linux

This document will be a quick c/p guide to setup StatusNet on Alpine linux. What we will setup is the following:

• Lighttpd with PHP
• PCRE
• Mysql
• StatusNet

Basic Installation

For installing the additional packages first activate community packages and update the package index

Install the required packages:

# apk add lighttpd php82 fcgi php82-cgi

Configure Lighttpd

Edit lighttpd.conf (/etc/lighttpd/lighttpd.conf) and uncomment the line:

Contents of /etc/lighttpd/lighttpd.conf

... include "mod_fastcgi.conf" ...

Edit mod_fastcgi.conf (/etc/lighttpd/mod_fastcgi.conf), find and change /usr/bin/php-cgi to /usr/bin/php-cgi82.

Contents of /etc/lighttpd/mod_fastcgi.conf

... "bin-path" => "/usr/bin/php-cgi82" # php-cgi ...

Start lighttpd service and add it to default runlevel

# rc-service lighttpd start # rc-update add lighttpd default

apk add pcre -f -U -X http://build.alpinelinux.org:8009/backports/1.10/ --allow-untrusted

apk add mysql mysql-client php-mysql php-mysqli

Configuring MySql

/usr/bin/mysql_install_db --user=mysql
/etc/init.d/mysql start && rc-update add mysql default
/usr/bin/mysqladmin -u root password 'password'

Create the StatusNet database

mysql -u root -p

CREATE DATABASE statusnet;
GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON statusnet.* TO "root";
FLUSH PRIVILEGES;
EXIT

Installing StatusNet

Install StatusNet

Make webapps folder

mkdir /usr/share/webapps/ -p

Download

cd /usr/share/webapps/ wget http://status.net/statusnet-0.9.5.tar.gz

Unpack

tar zxvf statusnet-0.9.5.tar.gz

Creating httaccess file

cp /usr/share/webapps/statusnet-0.9.5/htaccess.sample .htaccess

Change Folder Persmissions

chmod -R 777 /usr/share/webapps/statusnet-0.9.5/

Make Symlink to the StatusNet folder

ln -s /usr/share/webapps/statusnet-0.9.5/ /var/www/localhost/htdocs/statusnet

Configuring StatusNet

Browse to: http://WEBSERVER_IP_ADDRESS/statusnet/install.php and Install StatusNet completing the information as appropriate from the web browser.

StatusNet Installation steps:

Install StatusNet

• Site settings

• Site name

The name of your site

• Fancy URLsenable

disable

Fancy URL support detection failed, disabling this option. Make sure you renamed htaccess.sample to .htaccess.

• Database settings

• Hostname: localhost

Database hostname

• TypeMySQL

Database type

• Name: statusnet

Database name

• DB username: root

Database username

• DB password: password

Database password (optional)

• Administrator settings

• Administrator nickname

Nickname for the initial StatusNet user (administrator)

• Administrator password

Password for the initial StatusNet user (administrator)

• Confirm passwordAdministrator e-mail

Optional email address for the initial StatusNet user (administrator)

• Subscribe to announcements

• Release and security feed from update@status.net (recommended)

After click on Submit button, you will see:

Install StatusNet

Starting installation...
Checking database...
Changing to database...
Running database script...
Adding SMS carrier data to database...
Adding notice source data to database...
Adding foreign service data to database...
Writing config file...
Could not set up subscription to update@status.net.
An initial user with the administrator role has been created.
StatusNet has been installed at http://10.69.64.11/statusnet
DONE! You can visit your new StatusNet site (login as 'danieloc'). If this is your first StatusNet install, you may want to poke around our Getting Started guide.

You have StatusNet microblogin working, to access go to http://WEBSERVER_IP_ADDRESS/statusnet and enjoy!