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

Install lighttpd, PHP and MySql

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)

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