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utopiArte

1 month ago • •

utopiArte
1 month ago • •

@Friendica Support
As for my knowledge this intended newbee speaks fluently german, englisch and spanisch, tho maybe du/you/tu is a little bit to shy to ask for help .. not sure.

What is your setup and what have you tried till now @Mina to install your #friendica server, maybe we can figure out what's your problem with the installation.
🤔

#friendica @Friendica Support @Mina

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Not sure what is the actual state of the art of the installer is. Last I "heard" and experienced is that it was broken and that the best way to install is thru the console commands detailed in the helpers page:
/help/Install#Option+B%3A+Run+the+automatic+install+script

tupambae.org/help/Install#Opti…

And yes, it's recommendable to use the git install form, that way you will be able to easily update the installation.

@Mina

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Mina

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Thanks! I shall try this.

utopiArte

2 months ago • •

utopiArte
2 months ago • •

Q&A profile page options

v.01
@Friendica Support @Tutorial

Hi there!

A question about the different page option settings of accounts (friendica 2024.03).
/settings/account/basic

Screen of the account type options in the advanced account page type settings.

Right now this page want's to merge from a standard personal profile page to kinda community profile page where only specific defined profiles can publish thru it's wall to the rest of the followers.

First thought was to stay as a single profile page, allow mutual friend relations to publish/write to this wall, and change all contacts that do not belong to the inner circle of profiles to followers only. Apparently this setting doesn't work, or doesn't work as expected.
Security and privacy settings in:
/settings
Screen of the setting that allows friends to post to the profile page wall of a personal page.

Is this a known issue or some kind of misinterpretation of this option?

Next possible option would be to choose to become a public community group page.
Screen of the community group options in the advanced account page type settings.

This option would imply a continuous attention to change every new contact to followers only, if in fact this would mean that the followers would not be able to publish to the group but receive publications. Also this setting would include the risk of being exposed to unexpected posts into the community of followers whenever the administration of the profile lags behind for some reason.

The option private group looks more promising in this regard and actually would be the same than being a personal profile page that checks new follow requests and than could change the setting to allow mutual friendship to post to the profiles wall or simply define a follower relationship. The [Experimental] notice, that actually exists like lot's of years already is a little bit confusing, or creates a certain reluctance to try this option. How experimental is this still as of now or could we perhaps ask the community to run a general test on all the options of the account settings in general together with a general feed back to sum this up and come to some definite setup, wording and explanations on the matter?

@Friendica Support @Tutorial

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utopiArte

in reply to utopiArte • 2 months ago • •

Account type:
Community page

Screen of the community group options in the advanced account page type settings.

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utopiArte

in reply to utopiArte • 2 months ago • •

Apparently community pages can't restrict access to posting onto the wall of the forum page, so this wouldn't be an option for the proposal.

Screen of the security and privacy settings for forum/community pages.

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utopiArte

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Account type:
Channel relay

Screen of the channel relay option in the advanced account page type settings.

utopiArte

3 months ago • •

utopiArte
3 months ago • •

@Friendica Support

Hi there,
working on moving old friendica sites from a shared hosting to a VPS, I ran into the following problem I can't find a solution for. This actually happens with one 2021.04 instance but not with another (anymore), so I'm crosschecking all the settings but can't find how to solve this. Both sites were installed as 2012.04 from the start:

not working version wrote:

This is Friendica, version 2021.04 that is running at the web location sub.domain.com/var/www/subdomaincom. The database version is 1413/1413, the post update version is 1400/1400.

working version wrote:

This is Friendica, version 2021.04 that is running at the web location sub.domain.com. The database version is 1413/1413, the post update version is 1400/1400.

As visible in the screen, the site also displays the following path on top of the page, and of course calls that URL:
sub.domain.com/var/www/subdomaincom

Different intents to fix this by changing or deleting the following settings from the console didn't work out:

system.basepath => /var/www/domaincom
system.urlpath => /var/www/domaincom/

Even more astonishing, sending the following setting with the console:
/bin/console config system url https://sub.domain.com
.. the site is displayed and works as it should be for a few minutes, and than falls back into the wrong behavior, like if the worker changes something when ever the cron kicks in. In that time span I can log in and even go thru the admin settings but this setting is not available.

Intents to modify the following specifications in local.config.php didn't work out either:

'system.basepath' => '',
'url.basepath' => '',
'system.urlpath'=> '',

At least I figured out/ realized that url. and system. actually shouldn't be used at all as:

'config' => [
        ],
'system' => [
        ],

.. are actually "in charge" of defining that. So now I'm not sure either if those wrong lines somehow made it from local.config.php into the DB and are now part of the problem.

I found this conversation by @Hypolite Petovan on github:

Table config, cat = "system" AND key = "basepath"

and it actually looks like this is exactly te problem but I have no experience at all with mysql over CLI SSH and don't know what commands to use to delete the apparently wrong setting in the DB.

Screen of the front page showing the error

Is there a way to delete entries with bin/console?
I did manage to change some settings from there but couldn't find any hint how to "delete" an entry entirely from there:

/var/www/inversioncom/bin/console config -h

console config - Manage site configuration
Synopsis
bin/console config <category> <key> <value> [-h|--help|-?] [-v]

bin/console config system basepath /
system.basepath <= /

@Friendica Support @Hypolite Petovan

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Hypolite Petovan

in reply to utopiArte • 3 months ago • •

@utopiArte The last command looks correct, although this kind of low-level config value should be set in the config file, not with the console that only interacts with the database config.

@utopiArte

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utopiArte

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@Hypolite Petovan

Trying to document changes and results in kind a step by step answers.
The following setting leaves the site with a blank page and results in bin/console config printing the error message:
[Error] Missing database structure config file static/dbstructure.config.php

local.config.php

'config' => [
                'system.basepath' => '/',
        ],

'system' => [
                'basepath' => '/',
                'urlpath' => '/var/www/inversioncom/',
        ],

@Hypolite Petovan

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utopiArte

in reply to utopiArte • 3 months ago • •

@Hypolite Petovan

local.config.php

'config' => [
                'system.basepath' => '/',
        ],

        'system' => [
                'basepath' => '/var/www/inversioncom/',
                'urlpath' => '/var/www/inversioncom/',
        ],

bin/console config print:

config.system.basepath => /

system.basepath => /var/www/inversioncom/
system.urlpath => /var/www/inversioncom/

Site doesn't work, resulting in the screen as shown in the inicial post.
Setting the URL as described:
/var/www/inversioncom/bin/console config system url https://inversion.tupambae.com
.. the site works for a few minutes.

@Hypolite Petovan

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utopiArte

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@Hypolite Petovan

local.config.php

'config' => [
        ],

        'system' => [
                'basepath' => '/var/www/inversioncom/',
                'urlpath' => '/var/www/inversioncom/',
        ],

bin/console config print:

config.system.basepath => /

system.basepath => /var/www/inversioncom/
system.urlpath => /var/www/inversioncom/

@Hypolite Petovan

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utopiArte

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@Hypolite Petovan

local.config.php

'config' => [
                  ],

        'system' => [ 
                'urlpath' => '/var/www/inversioncom/',
        ],

bin/console config print:

Site doesn't work, resulting in the screen as shown in the inicial post.

Setting the URL as described:
/var/www/inversioncom/bin/console config system url https://inversion.tupambae.com
.. the site doesn't work either!

@Hypolite Petovan

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utopiArte

in reply to utopiArte • 3 months ago • •

@Hypolite Petovan

local.config.php

'config' => [
        ],

        'system' => [
        ],

bin/console config print, this time one of the references doesn't show up anymore:

system.theme => frio
system.url => https://sub.domain.com
system.php_path => /usr/bin/php7.4-fpm
system.ssl_policy => 1
system.basepath => /var/www/subdomain

@Hypolite Petovan

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Hypolite Petovan

in reply to utopiArte • 3 months ago • •

@utopiArte Please check the meaning of the relevant config keys in the static/defaults.config.php file.

@utopiArte

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utopiArte

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@Hypolite Petovan

On a first glimps, I haven't found any mention of the path terms.
In any case I will wonder about the meaning of: "the meaning of the relevant config keys".
Like to say, if I can find "relevant config keys" ..

@Hypolite Petovan

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utopiArte

in reply to utopiArte • 3 months ago • •

@Hypolite Petovan

Couldn't find any relevant setting or hint in static/defaults.config.php searching for the term path.

I did (again) a diff check of the print of bin/console config of the two subdomains.

The domain that doesn't work still displays the setting;
config.system.basepath => /
.. and I have no idea how to delete/ erase the /

The subdomain that works has the following line that doesn't show up in the one that doesn't work:
system.urlpath => /var/www/sudbomain2/

@Hypolite Petovan

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Hypolite Petovan

in reply to utopiArte • 2 months ago • •

@utopiArte Sorry, I was on mobile and couldn’t check but these keys should have been mentioned in this file, along their purpose.

system.basepath is the absolute file path where Friendica is installed, e.g. /var/www/subdomaincom in your case.

system.urlpath should only be used if Friendica is installed in a subfolder of the domain you’re using, and is relative to that domain. It doesn't seem to be relevant to you, so it should be blank.

system.url is the absolute URL where your Friendica node is accessible. It should consist in the protocol, the domain and the urlpath together. In your case it should be https://sub.domain.com/

system.php_path should be the absolue path to the PHP CLI executable. It should not point to PHP-FPM, which is used to process web requests.

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utopiArte

in reply to Hypolite Petovan • 2 months ago • •

@Hypolite Petovan

It should not point to PHP-FPM

Changed this setting in the local.config.php to phpX.y. The sites are working like before.

I decided to copy/paste identically local.config.php of the site that does work to the one that doesn't, only changing the specific detail of DB and folder structure, and also made sure that the .conf files are alike.
Still having the same problem.

Compared the print of:
/var/www/subdomaincom/bin/console config
in the few minutes it is working correctly after sending:
/var/www/subdomaincom/bin/console config system url https://sub.domain.com
and when it doesn't work but the prints are identically.

The print right now for both sites show the following quite at the bottom of the print:

system.url => subX.domain.com
system.php_path => /usr/bin/phpX.y
system.urlpath => /var/www/subXdomaincom/
system.ssl_policy => 1
system.basepath => /var/www/subXdomain/

The only difference between the two sites in the print is the following line quite at the top:
config.system.basepath => /
This line doesn't exist in the site that is working and I can't find a way to skip it or delete the /.
Meld (the diff program) shows a dot in front of the the slash ./, the simple text editor Kate doesn't.

Meld actually also shows the [enter] signs in the same way, a little bit less colored, in lines that have them, like it shows the dot.
🤷‍♂️

(notes (to myself))

hypolite wrote:

system.urlpath should only be used if Friendica is installed in a subfolder of the domain you’re using, and is relative to that domain. It doesn't seem to be relevant to you, so it should be blank.

As of now local.config.php does define system.urlpath, but as the site that works uses the line I left it for now.

hypolite wrote:

system.url is the absolute URL where your Friendica node is accessible. It should consist in the protocol, the domain and the urlpath together. In your case it should be https://sub.domain.com/

system.url is actually not set as https://sub.domain.com/ but as sub.domain.com

@Hypolite Petovan

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Hypolite Petovan

in reply to utopiArte • 2 months ago • •

@utopiArte So, forget about system.urlpath, it isn't used in any way by Friendica anymore, so value or not will not change your predicament.

However, the system.url should include the scheme. It is the most important config values to determine the base URL of your Friendica install.

What do you mean by "works for a few minutes"? How many pages correctly show in the mean time? What happens when the few minutes have elapsed?

@utopiArte

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utopiArte

in reply to Hypolite Petovan • 2 months ago • •

@Hypolite Petovan

What do you mean by "works for a few minutes"? How many pages correctly show in the mean time? What happens when the few minutes have elapsed?

The site works correctly for several minutes.
I can log in.
All pages show correctly, including admin pages.
Once it falls back to redirecting to:
sub.domain.com/var/www/subdomain/
.. I have to execute again:
/var/www/subdomaincom/bin/console config system url https://sub.domain.com
.. the console prints (as always):
system.url <= https://inversion.tupambae.com
and I can use the site again for several minutes before it falls back to the wrong behavior.

@Hypolite Petovan

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utopiArte

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@Hypolite Petovan

After a break I started to check out everything again and did several tests.
I changed the order of the lines in local.config.php and managed to get the exact same lines and order in the bin/console prints of both sites.
The problem stayed.
Than I checked example_local.config.php to compare and found that actually any of the lines figure there, so I deleted them all together.
Right now local.config.php looks like this:

        'config' => [
                'admin_email' => 'anyname@subdomain.com',
                'sitename' => 'sitename',
                'register_policy' => \Friendica\Module\Register::CLOSED,
                'register_text' => '',
        ],

        'system' => [
                'ssl_policy' => 1,
                'default_timezone' => 'UTC',
                'language' => 'es',
        ],

The site still behaves the same way. At first it loads correctly, and quite fast, after some minutes it starts taking lot's of time and ends up like in the screen of the initial post.

Now the bin/console config print shows only the following two specific lines related to the whole path issue, all the other references mentioned above are gone.
I have no idea how to delete the remaining references. Those lines have to figure somewhere in the DB I guess, but again, no idea what lines to execute to display them or delete them:
config.system.basepath => /
system.basepath => /var/www/subdomain

@Hypolite Petovan

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Hypolite Petovan

in reply to utopiArte • 2 months ago • •

@utopiArte Once you set a config value using the console, changing the value in the config file won't help as the console stores the value in the DB and it has precedence over the files.

No matter how you did it, the important part is that system.basepath must be set to the install folder, and system.url must be set to the full URL. You can verify what the current value used by Friendica for either config keys is using the console.

I've browsed https://inversion.tupambae.com and when the style is missing, the first line shows inversion.tupambae.com/var/www/inversioncom even though it should show https://inversion.tupambae.com. This is governed by the system.url config key.

@utopiArte

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utopiArte

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@Hypolite Petovan

To me it "feels" that /var/www/subdomaincom is added by some mecanism to sub.domain.com. In particular because when setting specifically with the console command /var/www/subdomaincom/bin/console config system url -> https://sub.domain.com it works for some minutes.

@Hypolite Petovan

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utopiArte

in reply to utopiArte • 2 months ago • •

@Hypolite Petovan

As last intent I tried to use the following commands to reset the two mentioned settings but the behaviour ist still the same:
/var/www/subdomaincom/bin/console config system url https://sub.domaincom
/var/www/subdomaincom/bin/console config system basepath /var/www/subdomaincom/

Can't see a solution for this.

@Hypolite Petovan

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Hypolite Petovan

in reply to utopiArte • 2 months ago • •

@utopiArte When the display breaks, can you confirm the system.url config value changed?

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utopiArte

in reply to Hypolite Petovan • 2 months ago • •

@Hypolite Petovan

No I can't.
There is no change at all in the results of the bin/console config output (print).
Actually even the settings send and "officially" accepted by the system do not show up in the print.

Latest thing I tried, totally feed up, was to send the commands several times and also making sure they end with a slash.

So I send:
/var/www/subdomaincom/bin/console config system url https://sub.domain.com/
system.url <= inversion.tupambae.com/
/var/www/subdomaincom/bin/console config system basepath /var/www/subdomaincom/
system.basepath <= /var/www/inversioncom/
/var/www/subdomaincom/bin/console config system url https://sub.domain.com/
system.url <= inversion.tupambae.com/
/var/www/subdomaincom/bin/console config system basepath /var/www/subdomaincom/
system.basepath <= /var/www/inversioncom/

And right now it looks like it sticked, for now the site remains operative!
🙄

(please have in mind that this is 2021.04, if it weren't so outdated I'd say we need to figure out the problem because this feels like a real problem under the hood)

@Hypolite Petovan

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Hypolite Petovan

in reply to utopiArte • 2 months ago • •

@utopiArte Oh I forgot this was such an old version. There still is an issue with the pictures because /var/www/subdomain/ gets prepended in the URL. Do you mind running bin/console config system and send the output to hypolite@mrpetovan.com ?

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utopiArte

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@Hypolite Petovan

Well now strangely on both sites bin/console config doesn't work anymore.
Both throw the following error message:

rootName@VPShosting:# /../doamincom/bin/console config
PHP Fatal error: Uncaught Error: Undefined constant "CURLE_OPERATION_TIMEOUTED" in /../domaincom/boot.php:229
Stack trace:
#0 /../doamincom//vendor/composer/autoload_real.php(69): require()
#1 /../doamincom//vendor/composer/autoload_real.php(59): composerRequireFriendica()
#2 /../doamincom/vendor/autoload.php(7): ComposerAutoloaderInitFriendica::getLoader()
#3 /../doamincom/bin/console.php(31): require('...')
#4 {main}
thrown in /../doamincom/boot.php on line 229

Can't recall doing anything at all, accept trying to get the php imap module to work.

#1 #2 #3 #4 @Hypolite Petovan

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Hypolite Petovan

in reply to utopiArte • 2 months ago • •

@utopiArte There's no file named boot.php at the root of the Friendica install, not sure where it's coming from.

The CURLE_OPERATION_TIMEOUTED constant is defined by the PHP curl extension, please verify it is enabled in the CLI version of php with php -i | grep curl.

@utopiArte

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Nanook

in reply to utopiArte • 3 months ago • •

For what it's worth, I found friendica to be unfriendly to non-root URLs, that is to say URLs that aren't at /, so I setup a subdomain specifically for friendica, friendica.eskimo.com/. You may wish to give that a try. The machine domain does not need to be this, you can do it by configuring DNS to point to the base IP of the machine and then configuring a subdomain in Apache or Nginx as a virtual host.

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utopiArte

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Not sure if I get what you mean with none-root @Nanook.

Like instead of:
/var/www/html/subdomain
or
/var/www/subdomain
just
/subdomain
?

@Nanook

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Nanook

in reply to utopiArte • 3 months ago • •

Also, this is a btop from an 18 core machine with 256GB of RAM with the major load being friendica, a secondary load is hubzilla, mastodon, and miskey, but friendica represents more load than the latter three combined, but it also gets more traffic than the latter three combined. But what I am getting at here, you may want to consider dedicating a physical server. I'll grant you it's busier than usual as we've just returned the server to service after three months of downtime, 7 motherbords, three power supplies, and two CPU's later.

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utopiArte

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@Hypolite Petovan

Not mentioned in the inicial post or answers as of now is the setting of /sites-available/sub.domain.com-le-ssl.conf

sub.domain.com-le-ssl.conf

<IfModule mod_ssl.c>
<VirtualHost *:443>
ServerAdmin admin@domain.com
ServerName sub.domain.com
DocumentRoot /var/www/subdomaincom
<Directory /var/www/subdomaincom>
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
AllowOverride All
Order allow,deny
allow from all
</Directory>
<FilesMatch \.php$>
# 2.4.10+ can proxy to unix socket
SetHandler "proxy:unix:/run/php/phpXy4-fpm.sock|fcgi://localhost"
</FilesMatch>
# DirectoryIndex index.php
ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/subdomaincom_error.log
CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/subdomaincom_access.log combined
# RewriteEngine on
# Some rewrite rules in this file were disabled on your HTTPS site,
# because they have the potential to create redirection loops.
# RewriteCond %{SERVER_NAME} =sub.domain.com
# RewriteRule ^ https://%{SERVER_NAME}%{REQUEST_URI} [END,NE,R=permanent]
Include /etc/letsencrypt/options-ssl-apache.conf
SSLCertificateFile /etc/letsencrypt/live/subX.domain.com/fullchain.pem
SSLCertificateKeyFile /etc/letsencrypt/live/subX.domain.com/privkey.pem
</VirtualHost>
</IfModule>

@Hypolite Petovan

utopiArte

3 months ago • •

utopiArte
3 months ago • •

#houston .. I mean @Friendica Support and @Friendica Developers, we have a problem!

Look's like bbcode code doesn't get parsed as code on mastodon.

tupambae.org/display/0ac89072-…
troet.cafe/@bitpickup/11420448…

#houston @Friendica Developers @Friendica Support

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jeSuisatire …ᘛ⁐̤ᕐᐷ

in reply to jeSuisatire …ᘛ⁐̤ᕐᐷ • 3 months ago • •

Looks first of all like a troet.cafe specific circunstance @bitpickup, what code is troet running?

The combination of two audio files might be problematic in general. Actually it's not possible over here to upload more than one video or audio and the replay of any of the two files displayed with timer might not work.

@milan
@utopiarte

Screnn from social.tchncs.de
Both embeeded files, the mp3 and the mp4 are displayed as such. The first intent to play the audio file failed and the display stalled.

@Milan @utopiArte @mʕ•ﻌ•ʔm bitPickup

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mʕ•ﻌ•ʔm bitPickup

in reply to jeSuisatire …ᘛ⁐̤ᕐᐷ • 3 months ago • •

> what code is troet running?

v4.2.15

utopiArte

3 months ago • •

utopiArte
3 months ago • •

Fwd:
Message from #frienDodo to @Friendica Support ..

Message tiper reminder gif of some birthday ..

#frienDodo @Friendica Support

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utopiArte

3 months ago • •

utopiArte
3 months ago • •

Hi there @islieb? !
This is a post actually directed in part to the @Friendica Support forum page of our free open source software community. I guess you heard the term #friendica already, as you are quite a while in the fedi, beginning with your #diaspora presence a long time ago. Our main coder @Michael Vogel is a fan of yours (if I got that right). I asked him the other day in a FOSDEM element chat, if he considers it possible that you make some drawings for friendica, maybe even for every new version, we have like two o three releases every year.

The idea came up because on this server we decided to use the following comic on the login/welcome page:
Drawing of a man sitting in a cave with is son, in the background a sunset is visible. He explains his kid that humanity ended like this because it wasn't reasonable to hurt the economy.
Than we came up with this variation for the text as you can see:
The same drawing. This time the text states that because of not willing to accept algorithms, centralized servers or advertisement, they are living that simple but beautiful life.

It seemed to me that Michael liked the idea to have some drawing by you, so I don't want to let the idea slip away and ask you, as well as the community, what everyone thinks about such an option. There are also the 403, 404, 500 and so on error pages. Well maybe those are more a task for @isfies!, who knows ..

Sumasumarum, any ideas, comments or questions about this proposal @all ?

#friendica #Diaspora @Friendica Support @Michael 🇺🇦 @islieb? @isfies!

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islieb?

in reply to utopiArte • 3 months ago • •

Ahhh... I'd love to say yes (really!), but I've already got so much stuff to do and I'm behind with everything.

Here's what I could offer:

If you want to use any comics or parts of them, rearrange things or change the text, just go ahead. heluecht knows my stuff and could probably find something that fits. On this page are two zip archives with comics ("islieb" = German, "heyokyay" = English): islieb.de/comic-archiv/

Alle islieb-Comics!

Eine Liste mit allen bisher veröffentlichen islieb-Comics. Suchst du einen bestimmten Cartoon? Hier wirst du fündig!

^islieb.de

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islieb?

in reply to islieb? • 3 months ago • •

I've also got some comics about themes like privacy, Social Media, AI, Windows/Linux and tech in genereal that were pretty popular, especially here on Mastodon. I could find them for you, maybe you want to use a few of them.

Other than that, I'm sure I could draw you *something*, but not a bunch of new comics. The drawing-part takes very little effort with these simple stick figures, illustrations wouldn't be a problem.

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islieb?

in reply to islieb? • 3 months ago • •

But coming up with several new comics on specific topics takes time, at least for me. If I try to force or rush ideas, the results are pretty lame most of the time.

Maybe you could ask other cartoonists as well? I'm sure many would be happy to contribute something and you'll probably end up with more material than you need.

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utopiArte

in reply to utopiArte • 3 months ago • •

@islieb?
Page 404
Image of a kitten just published by islieb from a mastodon account. A text in geman reads: "Calming kitten" "For all who need it right now" signed "isLovely"

👍 if you like the drawing above for a 404 page
👍👎 if you consider that somehow the image should be without text because of language compatibilites
👎 if you consider we should keep on posting proposals for to vote her, including @islieb's handle so he/she/it becomes obsessed with friendica and the idea and wakes up with fresh ideas burned into his/hers/it's mind every once in a while

@islieb?

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islieb?

in reply to utopiArte • 3 months ago • •

I guess I'll have to restart my friendica accounts now to calm my concience. I just stopped posting for a while because I had too many plattforms.

Caretoon of a friendly cat who's waving to the audience, along with the text: "Calming-Kitty! Here for all of you who need it right now."

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utopiArte

in reply to islieb? • 3 months ago • •

@islieb?

I guess I'll have to restart my friendica accounts now to calm my conscience.

I was about to try to tease you into open one, as you could handle all of your fedinetworks from there, crossposting to D* and bluesky and so on.
Or even to set you up your own instance, if you have a domain or subdomain name.
Actually I guess you could create things like "Vorpremiere publishing for subscribers" and things like that.
Limiting access to published posts and even images. Not really paywalled, I guess we all hate that, but courtesies like things the commoners are going to see next week, behind the scenes and all that influencer celeb fan stuff you know ..

@islieb?

utopiArte

3 months ago • •

utopiArte
3 months ago • •

@Friendica Support
#FOSS #gitHub

#github #foss @Friendica Support

utopiArte

5 months ago • •

utopiArte
5 months ago • •

Hi @Friendica Support

Not sure if the following has been part of information and discussion around here.
Apparently there are several Nostr relays that bridge, with or without asking for permission, profiles to somewhere else.

In this link there is a csv file with known servers that can be importet into the server blocking list:
codeberg.org/Luukanikos/fedibl…
#fediAdmin

#fediadmin @Friendica Support

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BeAware_

in reply to utopiArte • 5 months ago • •

no instance on Fedi asks for permission, you just have to block the ones you don't want.🤷‍♂️

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utopiArte

in reply to BeAware_ • 5 months ago • •

Actually at least over here I also could create a positive list, restricting access to only predefined instances.

That said, the "asking for permission" is if some instance simply mirrors profiles "without asking for permission" each profile or instance it pretends to mirror or duplicate. This in any case is basically about good manners, not technical possibilities.

I didn't dig into some apparent nostr discussion itself but saw the possibility to register a profile for mirroring it. Well, actually the only way this could happen in a correct respectful manner is that a profile follows an account that than interpretates that following as a request or permission to be mirrored.

Not interested in supporting bluesky or disrespectful folks in any way so I guess this list comes kinda preemptive handy.
👍

utopiArte

5 months ago • •

utopiArte
5 months ago • •

@Friendica Support

Hi there,
testing around with the software #castopod, developed by @Castopod :podcasting2: .

In general terms federation with #friendica works, even integration into public forum pages and reshare by those when the castopod profile is followed by the forum page in the first place, as tested with the forum page @podCasts. As of now following from castopod profiles apparently isn't implemented. Also as of now we didn't manage to get the cron job to work at that new instalation on a shared hosting.

What is strange is that a podcast episode publication doesn't embeed the audio player so it can't be reproduced inside the post shown over here on friendica. On mastodon this works, the post displayes a video like screen and reproduces the audio file.

Not sure if this is a specific issue of this friendica instance as it is stil 2023.05 or if this is something the latest versions experience to.

The uploaded audio file was in the format m4a.

This is the link to the original post:
cast.tupambae.com/@bitPickup/p…

Link to a mastodon instance where the post can be seen:
troet.cafe/@bitpickup/11387501…

Link to this site here where the audio is not displayed but only a link:
tupambae.org/display/db58d9ad-…

#friendica #Castopod @Friendica Support @podCasts @Castopod

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Fabio

in reply to utopiArte • 5 months ago • •

@utopiArte @Castopod :podcasting2:
The post from castopod is encoded as a "Note" ActivityStream object:

{
    "@context": "https://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams",
    "attributedTo": "https://cast.tupambae.com/@bitPickup",
    "cc": [
        "https://cast.tupambae.com/@bitPickup/followers"
    ],
    "content": "&lt;a href=\"https://cast.tupambae.com/@bitPickup/episodes/cc0-nc\">CC0-NC&lt;/a>&lt;br/>Moin, moin.\r&lt;br />\r&lt;br />Hier ein erster Vorgeschmack.",
    "id": "https://cast.tupambae.com/@bitPickup/posts/d88b27ab-c8c2-461d-9ec6-ac684af2908f",
    "published": "2025-01-22T04:00:01+00:00",
    "replies": "https://cast.tupambae.com/@bitPickup/posts/d88b27ab-c8c2-461d-9ec6-ac684af2908f/replies",
    "to": [
        "https://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams#Public"
    ],
    "type": "Note"
}

there is no indication of something that should be played, there is only the link in the text content.
Now, mastodon get the first link it find in post and try tho show a preview, I think using OpenGraph.
Friendica sometimes does it also, I don't know the details and I don't know why it doesn't show a preview for this. I'm pretty sure that it will not show a player anyway.

The point is: there is nothing in that Note object which says "it's a podcast". It's just a note that an episode is published, with a link to it. The fact that mastodon show the player is unrelated from the fact that the note links to a podcast. I'm sure the fact the link is the first thing in the note is a deliberated choice by castopod devs, to take advantage of Mastodon's behavior

I had expected that this would be some kind of activityPub convention of transmitting information about if a video or audio format is part of the content.

Yes there is: attachment property. But then Friendica will shows attachments as icons at the end of the post. Still without a player.

Castopod devs chose to create their ActivityStream object of type 'PodcastEpisode', which you can get requesting the AS version of the episode page

$ curl -s -H Accept:application/activity+json https://cast.tupambae.com/@bitPickup/episodes/cc0-nc | jq .
{
  "@context": "https://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams",
  "id": "https://cast.tupambae.com/@bitPickup/episodes/cc0-nc",
  "type": "PodcastEpisode",
  "published": "2025-01-22T04:00:01+00:00",
  "to": [
    "https://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams#Public"
  ],
  "cc": [
    "https://cast.tupambae.com/@bitPickup/followers"
  ],
  "attributedTo": "https://cast.tupambae.com/@bitPickup",
  "comments": "https://cast.tupambae.com/@bitPickup/episodes/cc0-nc/comments",
  "description": {
    "type": "Note",
    "mediaType": "text/markdown",
    "content": "The basics",
    "contentMap": {
      "en": "&lt;p>The basics&lt;/p>\n&lt;footer>&lt;p>&lt;a href=\"https://troet.cafe/@bitpickup\">bitPickup contact&lt;/a> in the fediVerse&lt;/p>\n&lt;/footer>"
    }
  },
  "image": {
    "type": "Image",
    "mediaType": "image/png",
    "url": "https://cast.tupambae.com/media/podcasts/bitPickup/cover_feed.png"
  },
  "audio": {
    "id": "https://cast.tupambae.com/audio/@bitPickup/cc0-nc.m4a",
    "type": "Audio",
    "name": "CC0-NC",
    "size": 161445,
    "duration": 7.808,
    "url": {
      "href": "https://cast.tupambae.com/audio/@bitPickup/cc0-nc.m4a",
      "type": "Link",
      "mediaType": "audio/mp4"
    }
  }
}

But this is not a standard object, and Friendica (and I think many other services) does not know how to display it, failing back to render the "content", losing the link to the audio file.

A note with a link is a reasonable way to post something understandable by everyone.

@utopiArte @Castopod

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Fabio

in reply to Fabio • 5 months ago • •

@Castopod :podcasting2: @utopiArte Mh, quick correction. if the link to the audio file is in an "attachment" property, friendica will show the player. Just as in this post

But from a semantic prospective (acting like I know what it means), the audio file is not attached to the note, but to the episode.

utopiArte

2025-01-23 18:50:49

Post of the audio MP3 URL link in BBCode audio brakets [audio][/audio]

@utopiArte @Castopod

utopiArte

5 months ago • •

utopiArte
5 months ago • •

@Friendica Support
#fediAdmin #fediVerse #AI #KI

Text for robots.txt to disallow access for known AI crawlers:

User-Agent: GPTBot
User-Agent: ClaudeBot
User-Agent: Claude-Web
User-Agent: CCBot
User-Agent: Applebot-Extended
User-Agent: Facebookbot
User-Agent: Meta-ExternalAgent
User-Agent: diffbot
User-Agent: PerplexityBot
User-Agent: Omgili
User-Agent: Omgilibot
User-Agent: ImagesiftBot
User-Agent: Bytespider
User-Agent: Amazonbot
User-Agent: Youbot
Disallow: /

robotstxt.com/ai

AI / LLM User-Agents: Blocking Guide

Find out how to block your content from being used for AI/LLM training with robots.txt. Created by ex-Google engineer Fili.

^{robotstxt.com}

#Fediverse #ai #ki #fediadmin @Friendica Support

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utopiArte

in reply to utopiArte • 5 months ago • •

extended version for the robots.txt

User-agent: AI2Bot
User-agent: Ai2Bot-Dolma
User-agent: Amazonbot
User-agent: anthropic-ai
User-agent: Applebot
User-agent: Applebot-Extended
User-agent: Bytespider
User-agent: CCBot
User-agent: ChatGPT-User
User-agent: Claude-Web
User-agent: ClaudeBot
User-agent: cohere-ai
User-agent: Diffbot
User-agent: DuckAssistBot
User-agent: FacebookBot
User-agent: FriendlyCrawler
User-agent: Google-Extended
User-agent: GoogleOther
User-agent: GoogleOther-Image
User-agent: GoogleOther-Video
User-agent: GPTBot
User-agent: iaskspider/2.0
User-agent: ICC-Crawler
User-agent: ImagesiftBot
User-agent: img2dataset
User-agent: ISSCyberRiskCrawler
User-agent: Kangaroo Bot
User-agent: Meta-ExternalAgent
User-agent: Meta-ExternalFetcher
User-agent: OAI-SearchBot
User-agent: omgili
User-agent: omgilibot
User-agent: PanguBot
User-agent: PerplexityBot
User-agent: PetalBot
User-agent: Scrapy
User-agent: Sidetrade indexer bot
User-agent: Timpibot
User-agent: VelenPublicWebCrawler
User-agent: Webzio-Extended
User-agent: YouBot

raw.githubuserc…

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Tuxi ⁂

in reply to utopiArte • 5 months ago • •

@utopiArte
Der Link bringt ein 404: Not Found

@utopiArte

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utopiArte

in reply to Tuxi ⁂ • 5 months ago • •

jupp, sieht ganz so aus.
Ist von dem site im ersten link.
Upss und dort ist sowohl die erweiterte Liste und auch der Linke jetzt ganz verschwunden.

.. und nun? ..

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Seirdy

in reply to utopiArte • 5 months ago • •

There are some false positives in that dataset, but I would still recommend it if you really want to err on the side of caution and don’t mind the false positives. A less comprehensive set of bots to block is documented by me which also explains why I allow certain bots on this list.

Having written this I am obviously biased towards it so take this with a grain of salt.

Scrapers I block (and allow), with explanations

Here’s my thought process when deciding whether to block a scraper from seirdy.one, the scrapers I block, the scrapers I allow, and the ways I block them.

^{Seirdy’s Home}

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utopiArte

in reply to Seirdy • 5 months ago • •

Thx for your link and efforts @Seirdy !

All this said, being part of a decentralized web, as pointed out in this toot, our publicly visible interaction lands on other instances and servers of the #fediVerse and can be scrapped there. I wonder if this situation actually might lead, or should lead, to a federation of servers that share the same robots.txt "ideals".

As @Matthias pointed out in his short investigation of the AI matter, this has (in my eyes) already unimagined levels of criminal and without any doubt unethical behavior, not to mention the range of options rouge actors have at hand.

It's evident why for example the elongated immediately closed down access to X's public tweets and I guess other companies did the same for the same reasons. Obviously the very first reason was to protect their advantage about the hoarded data sets to train their AI in the first place. Yet, considering the latest behavior of the new owner of #twitter, nothing less than at least the creation of #AI driven lists of "political" enemies, and not only from all the collected data on his platform, is to be expected. A international political nightmare of epical proportions. Enough material for dystopian books and articles for people like @Cory Doctorow, @Mike Masnick ✅, @Eva Wolfangel, @Taylor Lorenz, @Jeff Jarvis, @Elena Matera, @Gustavo Antúnez 🇺🇾🇦🇷, to mention a few of the #journalim community, more than one #podcast episode by @Tim Pritlove and @linuzifer, or some lifetime legal cases for @Max Schrems are at hand.

What we are facing now is the fact that we need to protect our and our users data and privacy because of the advanced capabilities of #LLM. We basically are forced to consider to change to private/restricted posts and close down our servers as not only the legal jurisdictions are way to scattered over the different countries and ICANN details, but legislation and comprehension by the legislators is simply none existent, as @Anke Domscheit-Berg could probably agree to.

Like to say, it looks like we need to go dark, a fact that will drive us even more into disappearing as people will have less chance to see what we are all about, advancing further the advantages off the already established players in the social web space.
Just like Prof. Dr. Peter Kruse stated in his take about on YT The network is challenging us min 2:42 more than 14 years ago:
"With semantic understanding we'll have the real big brother. Someone is getting the best out of it and the rest will suffer."

#Fediverse #twitter #ai #Podcast #llm #journalim @Seirdy @Matthias @linuzifer @Eva Wolfangel @Cory Doctorow @Taylor Lorenz @Jeff Jarvis @Anke Domscheit-Berg @Max Schrems @Mike Masnick ✅ @Elena Matera @Tim Pritlove @Gustavo Antúnez 🇺🇾🇦🇷

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Tealk

in reply to utopiArte • 5 months ago • •

I also tried to create something, but I didn't have any information about what agets are used forum.fedimins.net/t/blockiere…

@helpers

@Friendica Support

utopiArte

1 year ago • •

utopiArte
1 year ago • •

#Diaspora #altText @Friendica Support

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Michael 🇺🇦

in reply to utopiArte • 1 year ago • •

In your Markdown you haven't provided the alt text, but the title. See here: markdownguide.org/basic-syntax…

The alt text has to be between the two []. The text after the image link is the title. We don't support a separate title.

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utopiArte

in reply to Michael 🇺🇦 • 1 year ago • •

In other words, to be visible on firendica I'll have to use the brakets that Diaspora uses for text that is displayed if the image dosen't show up and there for post the text two times:
🤔

![Vistenkarte mit Wofgang Neuss, dem Man mit der Pauke. Wofgang lehnt an seiner grossen Pauke, hält delikat seinen Schlegel in der Hand und schaut leicht säuerlich nach links oben. In grossen Lettern steht geschrieben: Gegen Klima-kleber hetzen? Warum nicht? Lieber asozial als gar nicht regieren! Auf den Trommelfell seiner Pauke ist ein nicht erwähnenswerter Politiker zu sehen.](https://tupambae.org/photo/202597926365a61188ad34c262410425-1.jpg " Visitenkarte mit Wofgang Neuss, dem Man mit der Pauke. Wofgang lehnt an seiner grossen Pauke, hält delikat seinen Schlegel in der Hand und schaut leicht säuerlich nach links oben. In grossen Lettern steht geschrieben: Gegen Klima-kleber hetzen? Warum nicht? Lieber asozial als gar nicht regieren! Auf den Trommelfell seiner Pauke ist ein nicht erwähnenswerter Politiker zu sehen. " )

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Michael 🇺🇦

in reply to utopiArte • 1 year ago • •

The first text is the text that screenreaders are using. So for accessibility reasons the first one has to be set. The second text is just decoration. it is not needed for accessibility.

Unknown parent

utopiArte

Unknown parent • 1 year ago • •

it works ..

utopiArte

1 year ago • •

utopiArte
1 year ago • •

Implications of access by the user www-data to all friendica folders

@Friendica Support

Hi there,
the friendica helpers page describes the installation process of friendica as follows:

/help/Install: wrote:

The Linux commands to clone the repository into a directory "mywebsite" would be
git clone https://github.com/friendica/friendica.git -b stable mywebsite
cd mywebsite
bin/composer.phar install --no-dev
Make sure the folder view/smarty3 exists and is writable by the webserver user, in this case www-data
mkdir -p view/smarty3
chown www-data:www-data view/smarty3
chmod 775 view/smarty3
Get the addons by going into your website folder.
cd mywebsite
Clone the addon repository (separately):
git clone https://github.com/friendica/friendica-addons.git -b stable addon

askubuntu.com: wrote:

What is the www-data user?
askubuntu.com/questions/873839…
The web server has to be run under a specific user. That user must exist.
If it were run under root, then all the files would have to be accessible by root and the user would need to be root to access the files. With root being the owner, a compromised web server would have access to your entire system. By specifying a specific ID a compromised web server would only have full access to its files and not the entire server.

I guess this observation goes both ways, a compromised friendica instalation get's access to all the friendica folders if I choose to first create/activate the www-data user, than create the friendica installation folder structure, than git clone friendica, than create the smarty3 folder and ultimately do the git clone of the addon folder as described here:
tupambae.org/display/0ac89072-…
The order in which the creation of www-data related folders in the above case is described makes all folders and files in the friendica directory belong to www-data.
In the friendica help description first comes the git-clone, than the the smarty3 folder part than the addon git-clone. Actually I guess that last part would make the addon folder belong to www-data too if I run one command after another. Is that intended?

I wonder if this could have some kind of security implications.
I guess www-data is somehow the friendica site and has permissions to do "what ever it wants" (-> "writable by the webserver user") with all the folders in the friendica directories if it's the owner of them.

@TupambAdmin [stable]

@Friendica Support

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Hypolite Petovan

in reply to utopiArte • 1 year ago • •

@utopiArte For a Friendica node to work properly, the web server user (here www-data) needs to have read access to the whole Friendica folder structure and write access to a few important places, including the smarty3 cache folder. The simplest way to achieve this is to grant ownership to the whole Friendica file tree to www-data.

The security implication is that if someone ever gains unauthorized access to www-data, they can indeed do "whatever they want" with your Friendica install, including deleting files, adding malware to Friendica pages, access the whole Friendica database including the user list, the private post and messages.

And if you host multiple websites on the same server, they can also access and tamper with those if their file trees are owned by the same user.

It's a big "if" though, as on Debian-based distribution like Ubuntu, the www-data user doesn't have shell access, meaning that you can't open a remote shell using this user. Any unauthorized access has to go through the actual hosted applications. For example WordPress is a popular unauthorized access vector for malicious actors because it's so popular and people don't always update their software timely.

I don't think Friendica is very secure, but it is a low-profile target and we do act quickly when we receive security reports, even releasing hot fix versions when the scheduled release date is a little to far.

You can make your install marginally more secure by only giving access to the file tree through group permissions and only giving read/traverse rights by default, granting write rights only for the specific locations that need it. This way, in case of a malicious access, it will prevent attackers from inserting malicious code in your Friendica node pages, but that's about it.

@utopiArte

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utopiArte

in reply to Hypolite Petovan • 1 year ago • •

> granting write rights only for the specific locations that need it

What folders would that be?

What I have seen so far that would be:
/storage
/view/smarty3
and
/config
but only while installing local.config.php

Something I don't understand is why I do have a few folders in:
/view/smarty/compiled
that belong to the user root.
How is that possible?
How can friendica create folders as and/or for root?

What should I expect to happen if I just delete those folders, or even delete the complete /compiled folder. I guess friendica would start from there to create the folder compiled and subfolders as needed?

I ask because there are those subdirectories belonging strangely to root and one of my issues is that when I switch to the theme FRIO I have no access anymore to the settings of that respective profile, not even to change back to VIER. That renders that profile nearly useless and I'm trying to get around that problem.

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Hypolite Petovan

in reply to utopiArte • 1 year ago • •

@utopiArte That's a good list of exceptions.

Regarding the root-owned folders, it would prevent www-data from reading the cached template files and subsequently display the pages that uses the specific templates in this folder.

You should restore recursive www-data ownership to this or these folders. Please let me know if you need an example of a command line to do so.

@utopiArte

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utopiArte

in reply to Hypolite Petovan • 1 year ago • •

I guess to just change all the folders/subfolders and files regardless of their ownership that would be:

rootname@VPShosting:/var/www/html/view/smarty3/# chown -R www-data:www-data compiled

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Hypolite Petovan

in reply to utopiArte • 1 year ago • •

@utopiArte Perfect, see if it fixes access to the setting page.

@utopiArte

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utopiArte

in reply to Hypolite Petovan • 1 year ago • •

Just checked the settings page of one of the profiles in question and yes, that fixed it.
thx
👍

(again, how could this possibly happen, shouldn't we look for some bug somewhere or do we just assume some quantum entanglement?)

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utopiArte

in reply to utopiArte • 1 year ago • •

result:

What I don't get is where these ownership settings came from.
They were not even from a specific day or had anything specific in common:
tupambae.org/display/0ac89072-…

utopiArte

2023-11-26 22:07:25

Just checked all the 13 of 220 folders that were created as belonging to user and group root and that I consider shouldn't exist as owned by root i the folder /smarty3.
In general terms speaking I couldn't find a common property.
They refer to posts or replies by three different users.
Most refer to one specific post.
Two create a page:
Not Found
The requested item doesn't exist or has been deleted.
Request: XYZ
All were created with the theme VIER.

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Shiri Bailem

in reply to utopiArte • 1 year ago • •

@utopiArte @Hypolite Petovan this is most likely just some goof while doing something minor that you wouldn't have even connected to this at the time.

No amount of proficiency and watchfulness eliminates user error, it just becomes increasingly obscure.

@Hypolite Petovan @utopiArte

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utopiArte

in reply to Shiri Bailem • 1 year ago • •

Even tho there have been some trouble while setting up this installation what calls my attention ist that those folders had kinda random different dates of creation:

drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Nov 12 04:35 00
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 Nov 16 02:10 30
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Nov 17 19:35 3e
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Nov 11 01:57 49
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Nov 16 22:25 4e
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Nov 11 01:55 59
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Nov 14 11:10 90
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Nov 21 22:50 a3
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Nov 23 00:45 a4
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 Nov 23 19:15 ae
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Nov 23 20:35 b4
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Nov 16 00:53 bf
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Nov 14 11:10 e2

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Hypolite Petovan

in reply to utopiArte • 1 year ago • •

@utopiArte @Shiri Bailem Cache folders are created as needed. Since they are based on the 2 first or 2 next characters in the hash of the cached template, their distribution is supposed to be random. Not every page gets called every time, and then when you update your node some templates change and their hash with them.

@Shiri Bailem @utopiArte

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utopiArte

in reply to Hypolite Petovan • 1 year ago • •

Like to say this started with one folder being owned by root and from there others were created with the same ownership?

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Shiri Bailem

in reply to utopiArte • 1 year ago • •

@utopiArte @Hypolite Petovan it might be helpful to note: only root can create folders owned by anyone else, so those folders had to be created from friendica or some part of it running as root at the time they were created, this is why I said it was likely user error

@Hypolite Petovan @utopiArte

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utopiArte

in reply to Shiri Bailem • 1 year ago • •

That's what astonishes me.

My access is only via console SSH to the VPS and that shouldn't create any kind of cross implications with the firefox webbrowser that accesses the friendica installation.

Also apparently the installation itself was created the 8th of November, the first folder apparently the 11th of November so there was no relation to that.

If friendica is able to create a folder and files as root that's kinda scary isn't it?

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Shiri Bailem

in reply to utopiArte • 1 year ago • •

@utopiArte @Hypolite Petovan it's not able to, and if it was it would be considered a massive linux security bug rather than a friendica bug.

SSH and VPS mean nothing for this situation, you likely just ran something with sudo at some point.

@Hypolite Petovan @utopiArte

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utopiArte

in reply to Shiri Bailem • 1 year ago • •

probably

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utopiArte

in reply to Hypolite Petovan • 1 year ago • •

> That's a good list of exceptions.

In theory I could there for run the following commands to set all folders except /storage and /view/smarty3 to root:

set ownership of everything recursively to root:
rootname@VPShosting:/var/www/# chown -R root:root html

set ownership of storage and smarty3 recursively to www-data:
rootname@VPShosting:/var/www/html/# chown -R www-data:www-data storage
rootname@VPShosting:/var/www/html/view/# chown -R www-data:www-data smarty3

The change of ownership wouldn't affect the specific read/write permissions of files and folders and www-data would have only access to the folders needed.

right?

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Hypolite Petovan

in reply to utopiArte • 1 year ago • •

@utopiArte Indeed, it is separate. Please be on the lookout in your log for message like "Can't open file: Access denied" in case we missed a crucial place.

@utopiArte

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utopiArte

in reply to Hypolite Petovan • 1 year ago • •

I ended up doing the following:

First I created a backup folder of the existing html folder and subdirectories:

root@VPShosting:/var/www# cp -r html html_01.bak

By default that created a copy with all files and folders owned by root.

Than I changed the ownership of storage and smarty3 to www-data:

root@VPShosting:/var/www/html_01.bak# chown -R www-data:www-data storage

Screen of the new user and group owner ship setting of the /html folder

root@VPShosting:/var/www/html_01.bak/view# chown -R www-data:www-data smarty3

Screen of the new user and group owner ship setting of the /view folder

Once everything looked "fine" I moved the existing html folder to a new name.

root@VPShosting:/var/www# mv html html_www-data_old

By moving [mv] instead of copying [cp] the ownership of files and folders aren't affected. Than I moved the copy with the new ownership settings into place:

root@VPShosting:/var/www# mv html_01.bak html

Well see how this setup behaves.
In any case I'll have the old version at hand to change to it if necessary.

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Shiri Bailem

in reply to utopiArte • 1 year ago • •

@utopiArte security implications are minor, mostly because they can only edit the thing they've already hacked into.

But if that's a particular concern, you should be able to make the entire directory read-only as I don't believe friendica edits any of those files after initial setup (since all the edits are in database, or a separate storage folder if you're using the folder storage backend)

The writable in your quoted instructions is for the setup process while logged in under that user, so of course it'll need write to be able to download files and install them in the webserver directory. But there's no indication that it's needing write past that.

@utopiArte

utopiArte

1 year ago • •

utopiArte
1 year ago • •

@Friendica Support

I just tried to display /.well-known/host-meta as described in:

/help/Install wrote:

Verify the "host-meta" page is working
Friendica should respond automatically to important addresses under the /.well-known/ rewrite path. One critical URL would look like, for example: example.com/.well-known/host-m…
It must be visible to the public and must respond with an XML file that is automatically customized to your site.

Instead of displaying the xml file my browser (firefox) just downloaded it.
I'm used to get this page displayed.

Any idea what this could be?

The page /.well-known/ itself is "not found".

@Friendica Support

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Hypolite Petovan

in reply to utopiArte • 1 year ago • •

@utopiArte It really depends on your browser. That you are given a XML file to download is enough to pass the test. The /.well-known/ path is a virtual path and as such we only support specific endpoints like /.well-known/host-meta, /.well-known/nodeinfo and /.well-known/webfinger to name a few.

@utopiArte

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utopiArte

1 year ago • •

utopiArte
1 year ago • •

Can't publish public when mentioning forum pages

@Friendica Support
Hi there,
not sure if this is a bug or just that I'm missing some idea/rule functionality.

#bugResearch

Platform Info: 2023.05 - stable | VIER | firefox

Friendica Version: 2023.05 - stable
Theme: VIER
Browser: firefox
Friendica Source: gitHub
PHP version: 8.1.2-1ubuntu2.14
SQL version: MySQL / MariaDB
memory_limit 256M
4 Core CPU, 8 GB Ram with 300GB NVME Disk

I didn't have a look at gitHub

Short bug description:

When I try to publish publicly a post addressing two forum pages of this server, gimped and tutorial (tutorial is an account created with this profile), I get a restricted post and I don't understand why.

Details of the buggy behavior:

I publish the post as public but it gets displayed as private, only visible for the forum page gimped that actually figures twice in the information card of the lock icon.
Also, I can't pin the post to my profile.

See image gif in screenshots spoiler

¿Possible to reproduce, if so how:

This is the code of the post, it happens every time I try:
(somehow friendica alters the tags in this code)

#newHere #neuHier #hola

[img=https://friendica.nz/photo/preview/1024/113218]Gif scene of the movie "The Martian".

The lonely main actor is sitting on a stone on the inhabited planet he was left on alone.
A text reads:
"First day in the diaspora of the fediVerse .."

The astronaut is depicted how he opens the solar panels of his equipment, presses a big button on it and the hashtags #hola, #neuHier and #newHere appear.

In the last scene he sits again on his stone and the text: ".. wait .." is displayed.

In the first scene that reads the text about the first day in the fediVerse the probably oldest logo of the fediVerse is displayed at the bottom left of the scene. At the horizon on the right the actual logo of the the fediVerse rises behind the landscape.

In the last scene, while our hero is awaiting the outcome of his intent to make contact with the outside world, the old Federated Social Web logo appears in front of the sun.[/img]

#[url=https://tupambae.org/search?tag=fediVerse]fediVerse[/url] #[url=https://tupambae.org/search?tag=fediHelp]fediHelp[/url] #[url=https://tupambae.org/search?tag=fediTips]fediTips[/url] #[url=https://tupambae.org/search?tag=gimp]gimp[/url] #[url=https://tupambae.org/search?tag=gimped]gimped[/url] 
@ gimped@tupambae.org @[url=https://tupambae.org/profile/tutorial]Tutorial[/url]

Expected result:

¿what should be the correct behavior?
¿what did you expect?
Being posted public, shared by the forum pages publicly and being able to pin it to my profile.

Screenshots:

#Fediverse #fedihelp #feditips #bugResearch #gimp #gimped @Friendica Support @Tutorial

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utopiArte

in reply to utopiArte • 1 year ago • •

update:
this error happened again in this very post.

I had to separate the @ of the @ gimped@tupambae.org handle to be able to publish this to the helpers forum.

That gimped profile has become the administration profile because accidentally I used the same email address of the admin profile and actually locked the original admin profile out of the administration access by trying to change the email for gimped but being changed in that process to the admin profile, an error occurred twice already (profile change "on the fly" to a previous profile. That profile change error is an issue that was posted years ago as bug report on github and I experienced it several times already, once as mentioned now and once updating the profile pic of the tutorial forum page. That avatar is actually right now the one displayed in this utopiarte profile as I didn't changed it yet waiting to publish that bug research report as there is definitely something wrong with this avatar registry or location as it doesn't figure in any photo gallery.

Here the screen of this very same post that went out "restricted" and figures as only visible to gimped.

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utopiArte

in reply to utopiArte • 1 year ago • •

Links to the bugresearch I'm working on with respect to the avatar profile change issue that happend and is mentioned above.

Note: The following link is a reply in a post to gather in general info about bugs or unexpected behavior so over all this might look a little bit confusing as it is a work in progress to be able from there to created a comprehensive bug report.

I'm leaving these links here for the sake of documentation.

Change of profile while uploading avatar issue:
tupambae.org/display/0ac89072-…

Change of profile while trying to fix email address issue of the page gimped:
tupambae.org/display/0ac89072-…

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utopiArte

in reply to utopiArte • 1 year ago • •

status relation with gimped forum

It's an independend page, created by the admin page in the moderation panel adding a new user. Unintentionally the admin email was used to do so.

Status:
You are mutual friends with gimped

not hidden nor notifictions set

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Michael 🇺🇦

in reply to utopiArte • 1 year ago • •

Group posts are always automatically "unlisted".

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utopiArte

in reply to Michael 🇺🇦 • 1 year ago • •

👍

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utopiArte

in reply to Michael 🇺🇦 • 1 year ago • •

learning question

Why is it that the following "reshares" are public, I'm able to pin them and show up on the respective profile stream of that forum page:
aus.social/@radicalxstitch/111…
tupambae.org/display/0ac89072-…

The forum page (permaculture) was created by this profile contrary to the "gimped" forum above which is an "independent" account. The tutorial forum page mentioned above also was created by this profile here but isn't followed by this profile.

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utopiArte

in reply to utopiArte • 1 year ago • •

Tried to publish a comment from the gimped forum as a comment here.
Apparently that comment didn't make it to this post.

Here is the content:

As of now, this forum page is set as:
Private Forum
[Experimental]Requires manual approval of contact requests.

Maybe that has something to do with it?

In the profile page there are "public" posts by a mastodon profile that figures as "Mutual friendship" in the contacts list, same as the friendica utopiarte profile whose posts figure as "private message" to this forum page.

Screen of the privacy settings of the gimped forum

Tutorial

1 year ago • •

Tutorial
1 year ago • •

frio theme - Service Unavailable

Hi there @Friendica Support
just changed on this profile to FRIO as VIER seems to basically not perform the basic functions.

When I try to go to the settings page I get a "Service Unavailable" page.

What should I do?

friendica 2023.05 - firefox

@Friendica Support

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xy..

in reply to Tutorial • 1 year ago • •

@Tutorial i think the view directory or so needs to be writable.. if that helps

@Tutorial

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TupambAdminOrg [2024.03]

in reply to xy.. • 1 year ago • •

@xy..

you mean(?):
> creating folder for page view renderings
www-data@VPShosting:~/html$ mkdir -p view/smarty3
www-data@VPShosting:~/html$ chmod 775 view/smarty3

tupambae.org/display/0ac89072-…

@xy..

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Roland Häder🇩🇪

in reply to Tutorial • 1 year ago • •

@Tutorial Strange is that your account is reported as DFRN contact and not ActivityPub . But that is unrelated to this issue. Just what I have observed.

@Tutorial

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TupambAdminOrg [2024.03]

in reply to Roland Häder🇩🇪 • 1 year ago • •

thx for that observation @Roland Häder, there is definitely something wrong with the forum pages over here, at least with those created by the related account of @Tutorial .

Still trying to define what's wrong for the consequent error or bug report.

This might have something to do with a setting by the previous hosting in local.config.php, there is a post in the helpers forum about that wrong setting.
Maybe there is still a change necessary from 'localhost' to '127.0.0.1', I didn't find the time yet to address and test that.

@Roland Häder🇩🇪 @Tutorial

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Roland Häder🇩🇪

in reply to TupambAdminOrg [2024.03] • 1 year ago • •

@TupambAdmin [stable] I thank that part with #DFRN is that @Tutorial is a group/forum and not a normal account but I might be wrong. So please report your issue at github.com/friendica/friendica…

#dfrn @Tutorial

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TupambAdminOrg [2024.03]

in reply to Roland Häder🇩🇪 • 1 year ago • •

Even tho it is unrelated that the tutorial account and also this one is reported as DFRN contact and not ActivityPub, that might be some hint to something, there are some things that don't work as expected or as they should so this is a hint to have at least in mind.

I just posted this follow up help request with "into deep" information about the CHMOD settings of the smarty3 folder:
tupambae.org/display/0ac89072-…

TupambAdminOrg [2024.03]

2023-11-26 01:42:41

Correct CMOD settings for smarty3, subfolders and their users

Hi there @Friendica Support ,
this question is related to this help request:
frio theme - Service Unavailable
tupambae.org/display/0ac89072-…
I had a look at the smarty CHMOD settings and found the following:
drwxrwxr-x 3 www-data www-data 4096 Nov 8 20:23 smarty3
If I'm not wrong that's CMOD 775 (rwx|rwx|r-x) (?)
In the installation process the commands to create the smarty folders were:
www-data@VPShosting:~/html$ mkdir -p view/smarty3
www-data@VPShosting:~/html$ chmod 775 view/smarty3
see:
squeet.me/display/962c3e10-156…
tupambae.org/display/0ac89072-…
--
I looked into the subfolders and found:
rootname@VPShosting:/var/www/html/view/smarty3# ls -l
drwxr-xr-x 222 www-data www-data 4096 Nov 25 17:20 compiled => CMOD 755 (rwx|r-x|r-x) (?)
--
The folder "compiled" has a long list of sub-folders apparently each having 2 more steps of sub-folders.
rootname@VPShosting:/var/www/html/view/smarty3/compiled# ls -l
total 880
I found two types of folders, some few created on different dates strangely belonging to the user root instead of www-data, here two examples and how those two types of subfolders look like.
I guess the folders owned by root are wrong?
--------------------
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Nov 12 04:35 00
-
rootname@VPShosting:/var/www/html/view/smarty3/compiled/00# ls -l
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Nov 12 04:35 d4 => CMOD 755 (rwx|r-x|r-x) (?)
rootname@VPShosting:/var/www/html/view/smarty3/compiled/00/d4# ls -l
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Nov 12 04:35 ec => CMOD 755 (rwx|r-x|r-x) (?)
rootname@VPShosting:/var/www/html/view/smarty3/compiled/00/d4/ec# ls -l
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 675 Nov 12 04:35 00d4eca105abd94437094f3d4409477acb55526a_2.string.php => CMOD 644 (rw-|r--|r--) (?)
--------------------
drwxr-xr-x 3 www-data www-data 4096 Nov 22 20:25 01
-
rootname@VPShosting:/var/www/html/view/smarty3/compiled/01# ls -l
drwxr-xr-x 3 www-data www-data 4096 Nov 22 20:25 97 => CMOD 755 (rwx|r-x|r-x) (?)
rootname@VPShosting:/var/www/html/view/smarty3/compiled/01/97# ls -l
drwxr-xr-x 2 www-data www-data 4096 Nov 22 20:25 f2 => CMOD 755 (rwx|r-x|r-x) (?)
rootname@VPShosting:/var/www/html/view/smarty3/compiled/01/97/f2# ls -l
-rw-r--r-- 1 www-data www-data 6140 Nov 22 20:25 0197f2d4b23957a898d38870d6c6a3775da487ff_2.file.group_side.tpl.php => CMOD 644 (rw-|r--|r--) (?)

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TupambAdminOrg [2024.03]

in reply to Tutorial • 1 year ago • •

Looks like I can't answer here with the admin profile.
FRIO gives the same error over here.

/edit
I can comment but the comment doesn't show up in the stream.
I had to open the page in a new tab.

This entry was edited (1 year ago)

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TupambAdminOrg [2024.03]

in reply to Tutorial • 1 year ago • •

adding follow request page to the "service unavailable" messages:

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utopiArte

in reply to Tutorial • 1 year ago • •

tupambae.org/admin/themes/frio

Service Unavailable
unable to create directory /var/www/html/view/smarty3/compiled/90/4f/52

Exception thrown in /var/www/html/src/Core/Renderer.php:90
Stack trace:
#0 /var/www/html/view/theme/frio/config.php(199): Friendica\Core\Renderer::replaceMacros()
#1 /var/www/html/view/theme/frio/config.php(141): frio_form()
#2 /var/www/html/src/Module/Admin/Themes/Embed.php(89): theme_admin()
#3 /var/www/html/src/BaseModule.php(244): Friendica\Module\Admin\Themes\Embed->content()
#4 /var/www/html/src/App.php(703): Friendica\BaseModule->run()
#5 /var/www/html/index.php(52): Friendica\App->runFrontend()
#6 {main}

#1 #2 #3 #4 #5 #6

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utopiArte

in reply to Tutorial • 1 year ago • •

Update:

Correct CHMOD settings for smarty3, subfolders and their users

TupambAdminOrg [2024.03]

2023-11-26 01:42:41

Correct CMOD settings for smarty3, subfolders and their users

Hi there @Friendica Support ,
this question is related to this help request:
frio theme - Service Unavailable
tupambae.org/display/0ac89072-…
I had a look at the smarty CHMOD settings and found the following:
drwxrwxr-x 3 www-data www-data 4096 Nov 8 20:23 smarty3
If I'm not wrong that's CMOD 775 (rwx|rwx|r-x) (?)
In the installation process the commands to create the smarty folders were:
www-data@VPShosting:~/html$ mkdir -p view/smarty3
www-data@VPShosting:~/html$ chmod 775 view/smarty3
see:
squeet.me/display/962c3e10-156…
tupambae.org/display/0ac89072-…
--
I looked into the subfolders and found:
rootname@VPShosting:/var/www/html/view/smarty3# ls -l
drwxr-xr-x 222 www-data www-data 4096 Nov 25 17:20 compiled => CMOD 755 (rwx|r-x|r-x) (?)
--
The folder "compiled" has a long list of sub-folders apparently each having 2 more steps of sub-folders.
rootname@VPShosting:/var/www/html/view/smarty3/compiled# ls -l
total 880
I found two types of folders, some few created on different dates strangely belonging to the user root instead of www-data, here two examples and how those two types of subfolders look like.
I guess the folders owned by root are wrong?
--------------------
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Nov 12 04:35 00
-
rootname@VPShosting:/var/www/html/view/smarty3/compiled/00# ls -l
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Nov 12 04:35 d4 => CMOD 755 (rwx|r-x|r-x) (?)
rootname@VPShosting:/var/www/html/view/smarty3/compiled/00/d4# ls -l
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Nov 12 04:35 ec => CMOD 755 (rwx|r-x|r-x) (?)
rootname@VPShosting:/var/www/html/view/smarty3/compiled/00/d4/ec# ls -l
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 675 Nov 12 04:35 00d4eca105abd94437094f3d4409477acb55526a_2.string.php => CMOD 644 (rw-|r--|r--) (?)
--------------------
drwxr-xr-x 3 www-data www-data 4096 Nov 22 20:25 01
-
rootname@VPShosting:/var/www/html/view/smarty3/compiled/01# ls -l
drwxr-xr-x 3 www-data www-data 4096 Nov 22 20:25 97 => CMOD 755 (rwx|r-x|r-x) (?)
rootname@VPShosting:/var/www/html/view/smarty3/compiled/01/97# ls -l
drwxr-xr-x 2 www-data www-data 4096 Nov 22 20:25 f2 => CMOD 755 (rwx|r-x|r-x) (?)
rootname@VPShosting:/var/www/html/view/smarty3/compiled/01/97/f2# ls -l
-rw-r--r-- 1 www-data www-data 6140 Nov 22 20:25 0197f2d4b23957a898d38870d6c6a3775da487ff_2.file.group_side.tpl.php => CMOD 644 (rw-|r--|r--) (?)

utopiArte

1 year ago • •

utopiArte
1 year ago • •

@Friendica Support

¿Hi there @Friendica Developers, can you please take the theme VIER immediately out of the branches stable and RC!

It doesn't even display the [abstract] bbCode properly and right now literally I have no clue how many hours of my life I spend the last month documenting bugs that might be just because that theme doesn't work.

My mind is raging and I just jumped out of the window, lucky me that I live on ground level so every thing is fine as of now, but please, this is disheartening!
thx

tupambae.org/display/0ac89072-…

@Friendica Developers @Friendica Support

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xy..

in reply to utopiArte • 1 year ago • •

@utopiArte .. you could open an issue on github..

@utopiArte

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TupambAdminOrg [2024.03]

in reply to xy.. • 1 year ago • •

true @xy.. ,
but to be sincere, as of now I'm still trying to sort out what is and what is not with respect to bugReports "and all the rest":
tupambae.org/display/0ac89072-…

Once I have my list and reports set and done I guess I will have no other choice than to visit microsofts github to work for their AI, post all the reports at once and run away as always, scrubbing my browser and everything that is not "Niet und Nagelfest".

Perhaps, actually I hope, I will use git.friendi.ca first to post those reports, just because that's how it should be and actually, as of now this community is quite small, I truly consider we should have a bugResearch forum, pin there a bugResearch layout like this one:
tupambae.org/display/0ac89072-…
and do the basic research and communication here in our "world".
Once an issue, or feature request is pinned down, defined and summed up in such a report, it's just a copy/paste for anyone, or even someone in charge of that specific forum, to post it to gitHub and that's it.

There was a moment in time on diaspora where the arousal inside the community with respect to discussion and in particular feature requests was such that it was pure noise, in that moment github or any other instance of more internal discussions for those who know and actually do the stuff was like a protection layer for them, for coders and developers. Actually recently the same happend on mastodon. For now I can't see that noise problem here. I think that there are lot's of people who might help out in certain things, like testing and checking, moderating and or mantaining a forum page, but wont sign up for another site and another site and another site. A sign up that btw means, getting used to another layout, environment and so on.

In other words, I truly believe that this "sign up on github" isn't usefull in most cases.
In this particular request much less.
It's plain simple, if we can't maintain two themes working correctly, pass one to exclusively dev, make a fork for it or create an addon (best choice) for it.
Friendica started with like 5 themes, the one mike started with and was used to for his coding and eyes, plus cuatro, vier, frio ..

If we can't even do it for two, so let it be one and the rest as addons.
I don't like the layout of FRIO, I like the VIER layout, but believe me, I just got it, if you actually want to work, create content help with bug search or what ever, just use the theme the main coder uses or die in the intent.

And for the github thing, I was already angry before chatGTP about another centralized mega player like github, even before MS bought it.
And when I saw git.friendi.ca for the first time I immediately created an account there.
We are creating our fediVerse because of the very reasons of the totalitarian IT system they are building, holding all the keys in their hands. And now, every time someone starts to work with us testing and using the software we are sending them right into the arms of those "A****"?

Sorry but actually that's wrong and we are not even evolving the potential of our own place and software to begin with as I already pointed out.

So thx for the hint, I know gitHub exists, I forked friendica in 2011 over there to the account I have there.

@xy..

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TupambAdminOrg [2024.03]

in reply to TupambAdminOrg [2024.03] • 1 year ago • •

btw
image resize bbcode doesn't work
[img=92x92]
it did in the preview.

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Nanook

in reply to xy.. • 1 year ago • •

@xy.. @utopiArte The guy coming towards us on the left of the screen must have been driving a GM product.

@xy.. @utopiArte

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utopiArte

in reply to Nanook • 1 year ago • •

The guy?

you mean this guy?

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Nanook

in reply to utopiArte • 1 year ago • •

Please do NOT remove the theme vier, I am using it, the others suck royally.

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utopiArte

in reply to Nanook • 1 year ago • •

> Please do NOT remove the theme vier,

Your server can have it anyway, Nanook that's how github and free software works.

FRIO looks like designed by someone who spent to much time on twitter.
I don't like how it looks and I don't like how editing and posting looks/feels compared to VIER but that's not the point and to begin with what I became accustomed to and there for don't want to change in the first place.

This request is about the fact that apparently it takes resources the main coder community doesn't have to make more than one theme work and integrate into the main branch.

VIER (or FRIO), and to that matter any other theme could/should be an addon.
Actually if it was it would incentivize others to code optional themes too or modify VIER (or FRIO).

To offer a theme in STABLE or RC that doesn't work/integrate with the basics of friendica like bbCode is bad for friendica, for the users and for the community.

Apparently we are not talking about some looks or outfit here but different coding from the core:

> "Vier" is a very compact and modern theme. It uses the font awesome font library: fortawesome.github.com/Font-Aw…

> "Frio" Responsive theme based on a modern HTML/CSS/JavaScript framework.
V.1.0

If I expect anything from friendica in the first place it is that it is fast and simple. From that point of view I actually even would want it to be just simple text and bbCode or markdown addons to be activated by admin and user.

Having been raised in terms of websites in the phpBB board world, I'd love to be able and incentivized to tweak friendica with addons to my needs. Manipulate the bbCode options below the text space, for example ad a button for (code), or [p] or [hr]. Or shut down the bbCode proposition that pops up every time I start writing a bracket because that's a "pain in the a**" at least here in VIER.

friendica is not microblogging, all the contrary, so I don't know why the basic theme doesn't just give me as much screen width as possible to write and have basically a letter kinda layout.

Everything else should be addons and opt ins.

(my opinion/expectation)

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Nanook

in reply to utopiArte • 1 year ago • •

@utopiArte The problem is that if they remove it, then the base code will rapidly become incompatible and it will no longer work, that is why I say my site will become unmaintained.

@utopiArte

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utopiArte

in reply to Nanook • 1 year ago • •

> then the base code will rapidly become incompatible

My assumption is that it is already.

In general terms speaking, if your site has a stable version installation and there are no important security fixes, or changes in the activitypub protocol itself, it should work as is without updating it.

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Nanook

in reply to utopiArte • 1 year ago • •

@utopiArte One of those two things will happen within a few months, also PHP changes happen requiring fixes, for example, 8.0 just hit end of life.

@utopiArte

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utopiArte

in reply to Nanook • 1 year ago • •

Nanook, if you have a look at the view folder of friendica you'll find that the old themes, even Mikes duopuntocero are still there, so even if VIER falls out of the admin panel it most likely still would be available for profiles that are set to that theme from before.

As you can see VIER isn't already up to date like my recent post about the bbCode [abstract] pointed out:
tupambae.org/display/0ac89072-…
and there are other things that don't really work when I try to answer in other posts for example. So what you are fearing is what I'm actually pointing out is happening already, two themes are to much work for the dev team to have completely up to date and to code for them.

That said, VIER works more or less and displays in it's very own way friendica and it's posts so use it and accustom to the work arounds needed to work with it.

I'm not going to bother the dev team with issues about it or waste my time trying to figure out why something doesn't work as expected, that's a waste of time and in detriment to the developing of friendica core and firendica should at least clarify that in the display selector. That's why I talk about making themes to become addons. That way the core development team isn't or has to feel responsible for it.

I'll close my participation here as I guess everything is said on this matter.

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Nanook

in reply to utopiArte • 1 year ago • •

@utopiArte Yes but it won't work after a couple of months, already after updates have a dozen times it has not worked
and I've had to create tickets to get it fixed, if they do this
they will just say not supported and it will cease to work.

@utopiArte

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Nanook

in reply to utopiArte • 1 year ago • •

Frio is sufficiently ugly that if I am forced to use it, I will probably leave the server running because I've got 2600+ users, but I myself will find something else to use and as a result it won't be maintained.

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utopiArte

in reply to utopiArte • 1 year ago • •

/jesuisatires sarcasm mode on

> I've got 2600+ users, but I myself will find something else to use and as a result it won't be maintained

Sounds like a terrible hostage situation you are threatening with Nanook.

Profiles like this one?

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As stated before, fork the deprecated theme, or even better both, make a themes addon out of it and be happy.

utopiArte

1 year ago • •

utopiArte
1 year ago • •

random post import from new followed diaspora profile

(update: post that didn't federate till now to the helpers forum, just added the dev forum)
friendica 2023.05

@Friendica Support @Friendica Developers

Hi there,
not a real problem but I find it strange and in any case worrisome as in the end this adds to the DB without any direct request.

I just followed a profile that has like over a decade of existence in the fediVerse with tons of posts. I actually searched and researched for some of them and like just by the way a few more posts of that profile popped up in my network stream.
It doesn't look like there is any kind of pattern to it at all.
(except that they all end with "4860008dbc6c"?)

randomly "imported" posts

https://tupambae.org/display/c575fc50a042013327474860008dbc6c
https://tupambae.org/display/745d3860a1f4013327484860008dbc6c
https://tupambae.org/display/938cab108bba013271c64860008dbc6c

I did search for some D* posts from this "brand new server" to import reshare/save them:

posts searched

https://pod.geraspora.de/posts/14245146
https://pod.geraspora.de/posts/0ac890724556bf5a713e18e506721528
https://diaspora-fr.org/posts/50b2e8882bd91579

Also it looks like these posts have in common that bitpickup@framasphere.org, a D* server and there for profile that doesn't exist anymore reshared them, unlikely that this has something to do with it.

@Friendica Developers @Friendica Support

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utopiArte

in reply to utzer [Friendica] • 1 year ago • •

utzer wrote:

Rarely also when new contact is added.

I guess this is the point here.

Right now I'm in a working rush as this server juste started as it should, have a back log on the merge report and actually am anxious to do what I actually wanted to with this domain, so right now I can't.

If I stumble over it again I will come back to this, other wise when I have some time I'll try to recreate the "bug".

#bugBookmark
Share some screenshot of a post if you like, you can remove name and post body, just the date time part is needed to understand.

#bugBookmark

This entry was edited (1 year ago)

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TupambAdminOrg [2024.03]

in reply to utopiArte • 1 year ago • •

~~I did have look at gitHub~~
Short bug bescription:
a overall summary of the issue
¡What doesn't work is that
¿Possible to reproduce, if so how:

step one to reproduce the problem
step two
step three

Details of the buggy behaviour:
When I
Expected result
¿what should be the correct behavior:
Screenshots:

Platform Info:
Friendica Version:2023.05 - stable
Friendica Source:gitHub
PHP version:8.1.2-1ubuntu2.14
SQL version:MySQL / MariaDB
memory_limit 256M

php.error.log

leave this as it is the server team will use this report if possibl/necessary

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