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diff --git a/install/INSTALL.txt b/install/INSTALL.txt index 9c85e0f4b..d042f34ec 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 5.3+. 5.4 or 5.5 is highly recommended. 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. @@ -121,11 +129,11 @@ use SSL, your webserver must not listen on port 443 at all. util/add_addon_repo https://github.com/friendica/red-addons.git matrix - - For keeping the addon tree updated, you should be on your 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/extend/addon/matrix - git pull + cd mywebsite + util/update_addon_repo matrix 3. Create an empty database and note the access details (hostname, username, diff --git a/util/shredder/readme b/util/shredder/readme new file mode 100644 index 000000000..44ed6f45c --- /dev/null +++ b/util/shredder/readme @@ -0,0 +1,11 @@ +http://kmkeen.com/jshon/ + + + +Jshon was made to be part of the usual text processing pipeline. However, every single -u is printed out to its own line. Most shell tools expect fields to be tab separated, and newlines between sets of fields. The paste tool does this. However, paste breaks down on blank lines so use sed to pad out the empty lines. + +jshon ... | sed 's/^$/-/' | paste -s -d "\t\t\n" | .... + +The arguments need a little explaining. +-s is mysteriously needed for paste to correctly handle input. +-d is less obvious from the manpage, because it can take multiple characters which are looped through. The above example concatenates every three lines together. |