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Statusnet - Start Your Own Hosted Microblogging Twitter Like Social Network on Debian GNU / Linux Walking in Light with Christ - Faith, Computing, Diary Articles & tips and tricks on GNU/Linux, FreeBSD, Windows, mobile phone articles, religious related texts http://www.pc-freak.net/blog StatusNet - Start your own hosted microblogging twitter like social network on Debian GNU / Linux Author : admin I like experimenting with free and open source projects providing social networking capabilities like twitter and facebook. Historically I have run my own social network with Elgg - Open Source Social Network Engine. I had a very positive impression from Elgg as a social engine as, there are plenty of plugins and one can use Elgg to run free alternative to very basic equivalent of facebook, problem with Elgg I had however is if is not all the time monitored it quickly fills up with spam and besides that I found it to be still buggy and not easy to update. The other social network free software I heard of isBuddyPress which I recently installed with Multisite (MuSite) enabled. Since BuddyPress is Wordpress based and it supports all the nice wordpress plugins, my impression is social networking based on wordpress behaves much more stable and since there is Akismet for Wordpress, the amount of spammer registrations is much lower than with Elgg. Recently I started blogging much more actively and I realized everyday I learn and read too much interesting articles and I don't log them anywhere and thought I need a way besides twitter to keep flashy notes of what I'm doing reading, learning in a short notes. I don't want to use Twitter on purpose, because I don't want to improve twitter's site SEO with adding my own stuff on their website but I want to keep my notes on my own local hosted server. As I didn't wanted to loose time with Complexity of Elgg anymore and wanted to try to something new and I know the open source microblogging social network (Twitter Equivalent) - identi.ca runs StatusNet 1 / 6 Walking in Light with Christ - Faith, Computing, Diary Articles & tips and tricks on GNU/Linux, FreeBSD, Windows, mobile phone articles, religious related texts http://www.pc-freak.net/blog - Free and Open Source Social software. StatusNet is well known under the motto of "Decentralized Twitter" I took the time to grab it and install it to my home brew machine pc-freak.net. If you haven't seen StatusNet so far - you can check out demo of my installation here - registration is not freely opened because, i don't want spammers to break in, however if you want to give a try drop me a mail or comment below and I will open access for you .. There is no native statusnet package for Debian Linux (as I'm running Debian) so to install it, I've grabbed statusnet. To install StatusNet, everything was pretty straight forward and literally following instructionsf rom INSTALL file, i.e.: # status.example.com maps to /var/www/status/ cd /var/www/status/ wget http://status.net/statusnet-0.9.6.tar.gz tar -xzf statusnet-0.9.6.tar.gz --strip-components=1 rm statusnet-0.9.6.tar.gz cd .. chgrp www-data status/ chmod g+w status/ cd status/ chmod a+w avatar/ background/ file/ mysqladmin -u "root" -p "sql-root-password" create statusnet mysql -u root -p 2 / 6 Walking in Light with Christ - Faith, Computing, Diary Articles & tips and tricks on GNU/Linux, FreeBSD, Windows, mobile phone articles, religious related texts http://www.pc-freak.net/blog GRANT ALL on statusnet.* TO 'statusnetuser'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'statusnet-secret- password'; To Change default behaviour of URls to be more SEO friendly and not to show .php in URL (e.g. add so called fancy URLs - described in INSTALL): cp htaccess.sample .htaccess Then had to configure a VirtualHost under a subdomain http://statusnet.yourdomain.com/install.php or you can alternatively install and access it in browser via http://your-domain.com/status/install.php An important note to open here is you have to set the URLs via which status.net will be accessed further before proceeding with the install, if you will be using HTTPS here is time to configure it and test it before proceeding with install ... Just be warned that if you don't set the URLs properly now and try to modify them further you will get a lot of issues hard to solve which will cost you a lot of time and nervee .. If you want to enable twitter bridging in Statusnet you will need to get Twitter consumer and secret keys, to get that you have to create new application on https://dev.twitter.com/apps afterwards you will be taken to a page containing Consumer Key & Consumer Secret string. StatusNet installation will auto generate config.php, you can further edit it manually with text editor. Content of my current statusnet config.php is here. Most important options to change are: $config['daemon']['user'] = 'www-data'; $config['daemon']['group'] = 'www-data'; www-data is user with which Apache is running by default on Debian Linux. $config['site']['profile'] = 'private'; By default Status.Net will be set to run as private - e.g. it will be fitted for priv. use - messages posted will not publicly be visible. Here the possible options to choose between are: $config['site']['profile'] = 'private'; $config['site']['profile'] = 'community'; $config['site']['profile'] = 'singleuser'; $config['site']['profile'] = 'public'; singleuser is pretty self explanatory, setting public option will open registration for any user on the internet - probably your network will quickly be filled with spam - so beware with this option. community will make statusnet publicly visible but, registration will only possible via use creation / invitation to join the network from admin. vi /var/www/status/config.php 3 / 6 Walking in Light with Christ - Faith, Computing, Diary Articles & tips and tricks on GNU/Linux, FreeBSD, Windows, mobile phone articles, religious related texts http://www.pc-freak.net/blog $config['site']['fancy'] = true; Then to enable twitter to statusnet bridge add to config.php vi /var/www/status/config.php addPlugin('TwitterBridge'); $config['twitter']['enabled'] = true; $config['twitterimport']['enabled'] = true; $config['avatar']['path'] = '/avatar'; $config['twitter']['consumer_key'] = 'XXXXXXXX'; $config['twitter']['consumer_secret'] = 'XXXXXXXX'; # disable sharing location by default $config['location']['sharedefault'] = 'false'; Notice, I decided to disable statusnet sharedefault folder, because i don't have a lot of free space to provide to users. If you want to let users be allowed to share files (you the space for that), you might want to set a maximum quote of uploaded files (to prevent your webserver from being DoSed - for example by too many huge uploads), here is some reasonable settings: $config['attachments']['file_quota'] = 7000000; $config['attachments']['thumb_width'] = 400; $config['attachments']['thumb_height'] = 300; If you want to get the best out of performance of your new statusnet microblogging service, after each modification of config.php be sure to run: php scripts/checkschema.php Running checkschema.php is also useful, to check whether adding new plugins to check whether plugin will not throw an error. Here is some extra useful config.php plugins to enable: addPlugin('Gravatar', array()); #addPlugin('Textile'); addPlugin('InfiniteScroll'); addPlugin('Realtime'); addPlugin('Blog'); addPlugin('SiteNoticeInSidebar'); 4 / 6 Walking in Light with Christ - Faith, Computing, Diary Articles & tips and tricks on GNU/Linux, FreeBSD, Windows, mobile phone articles, religious related texts http://www.pc-freak.net/blog addPlugin('WikiHashtags'); addPlugin('SubMirror'); addPlugin('LinkPreview'); addPlugin('Blacklist'); If you expect to have quickly growing base of users it is recommended to also check out whether your MySQL is tuned with mysqltuner and optimize it for performance Another useful think you would like to do is to increased the number of Statusnet avatars in the 'following' - 'followers' - 'groups' sections on my profile page by editing lib/groupminilist.php and lib/profileminilist.php line 36 in both files. To get the full list of possible variables that can be set in config.php run in terminal: php scripts/setconfig.php -a If you happen to encounter some oddities and issues with StatusNet after installation, this is most likely to some PHP hardering on compile time or some PHP.ini functions disabled for security or some missing component to install which is described as a prerequirement in statusnet INSTALL file to debug the issues enable statusnet logging by adding in config.php $config['site']['logdebug'] = true; $config['site']['logfile'] = '/var/log/statusnet.log'; By default logs produced will be quite verbose and there will be plenty of information you will probably not need and will lead to a lot of "noise", to get around this, there is the LogFilter Plugin for some reasonable logging use in config.php: addPlugin('LogFilter', array( 'priority' => array(LOG_ERR => true, LOG_INFO => true, LOG_DEBUG => false), 'regex' => array('/About to push/i' => false, '/twitter/i' => false, '/Successfully handled item/i' => false) )); If you want tokeep log of statusnet it is a good idea to rorate logs periodically to keep them from growing too big, to do this create in /etc/logrotate.d new files /etc/logrotate.d/statusnet with following content: 5 / 6 Walking in Light with Christ - Faith, Computing, Diary Articles & tips and tricks on GNU/Linux, FreeBSD, Windows, mobile phone articles, religious related texts http://www.pc-freak.net/blog /var/log/statusnet/*.log { daily missingok rotate 7 compress delaycompress notifempty create 770
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