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author | friendica <info@friendica.com> | 2015-04-23 19:49:41 -0700 |
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committer | friendica <info@friendica.com> | 2015-04-23 19:49:41 -0700 |
commit | 6679734135fb04f4a7beccb81663bf1e9574f062 (patch) | |
tree | 887488543d98b5dd297d917718bdd99844e83ba5 /install/INSTALL.txt | |
parent | 08b757a22cd2804bfec8ecf682b6987b8c06ca49 (diff) | |
parent | c696860cc53bc25558d83de5eda65d9b583da382 (diff) | |
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Merge branch 'master' into tres
Conflicts:
include/Contact.php
include/ItemObject.php
include/api.php
include/attach.php
include/diaspora.php
include/dir_fns.php
include/enotify.php
include/event.php
include/expire.php
include/items.php
include/notifier.php
include/notify.php
include/photos.php
include/taxonomy.php
include/text.php
include/widgets.php
include/zot.php
mod/admin.php
mod/channel.php
mod/dirsearch.php
mod/display.php
mod/editwebpage.php
mod/events.php
mod/home.php
mod/item.php
mod/manage.php
mod/mood.php
mod/network.php
mod/page.php
mod/photos.php
mod/ping.php
mod/post.php
mod/thing.php
mod/viewsrc.php
view/css/mod_events.css
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1 files changed, 26 insertions, 16 deletions
diff --git a/install/INSTALL.txt b/install/INSTALL.txt index f5edf009f..58ec365cb 100644 --- a/install/INSTALL.txt +++ b/install/INSTALL.txt @@ -42,10 +42,16 @@ site for the first time, please use the SSL ("https://") URL if SSL is available. This will avoid problems later. The installation routine will not allow you to use a non browser-valid certificate. -This restriction is incorporated because public posts from you may for example -contain references to images on your own hub. If your certificate is not known -by the internet browser of users they get a warning message complaining about -the invalid certificate. +This restriction is incorporated because public posts from you may contain +references to images on your own hub. Other members viewing their stream on +other hubs will get warnings if your certificate is not trusted by their web +browser. This will confuse many people because this is a decentralised network +and they will get the warning about your hub while viewing their own hub and may +think their own hub has an issue. These warnings are very technical and scary to +some folks, many of whom will not know how to proceed except to follow the browser +advice. This is disruptive to the community. That said, we recognise the issues +surrounding the current certificate infrastructure and agree there are many +problems, but that doesn't change the requirement. Free "browser-valid" certificates are available from providers such as StartSSL. @@ -57,9 +63,11 @@ use SSL, your webserver must not listen on port 443 at all. 1. Requirements - Apache with mod-rewrite enabled and "AllowOverride All" so you can use a - local .htaccess file + local .htaccess file. Some folks have successfully used nginx and lighttpd. + Example config scripts are available for these platforms in doc/install. + Apache and nginx have the most support. - - PHP 5.3+. The later the better. + - PHP 5.4 or later. The later the better. - PHP *command line* access with register_argc_argv set to true in the php.ini file - and with no hosting provider restrictions on the use of @@ -70,7 +78,7 @@ use SSL, your webserver must not listen on port 443 at all. - some form of email server or email gateway such that PHP mail() works - - Mysql 5.x or MariaDB + - Mysql 5.x or MariaDB or postgres database server. - ability to schedule jobs with cron. @@ -88,7 +96,7 @@ use SSL, your webserver must not listen on port 443 at all. software much easier to update. The Linux command to clone the repository into a directory "mywebsite" would be - git clone https://github.com/friendica/red.git mywebsite + git clone https://github.com/redmatrix/redmatrix.git mywebsite - and then you can pick up the latest changes at any time with @@ -115,15 +123,17 @@ use SSL, your webserver must not listen on port 443 at all. cd mywebsite - - Then you should clone the addon repository (separately) + - Then you should clone the addon repository (separately). We'll give this repository + a nickname of 'matrix'. You can pull in other redmatrix addon repositories by + giving them different nicknames. - git clone https://github.com/friendica/red-addons.git addon + util/add_addon_repo https://github.com/redmatrix/redmatrix-addons.git matrix - - For keeping the addon tree updated, you should be on you addon tree and - issue a git pull + - For keeping the addon tree updated, you should be on your top level website + directory and issue an update command for that repository. - cd mywebsite/addon - git pull + cd mywebsite + util/update_addon_repo matrix 3. Create an empty database and note the access details (hostname, username, @@ -144,8 +154,8 @@ website. If not, edit htconfig.php and change system settings. Rename to .htconfig.php - Database is populated. - If not, import the contents of "database.sql" with phpmyadmin - or mysql command line + If not, import the contents of "install/schema_xxxxx.sql" with phpmyadmin + or mysql command line (replace 'xxxxx' with your DB type). 7. At this point visit your website again, and register your personal account. Registration errors should all be recoverable automatically. |