tombeau

New forte instance is invisible somehow

2025-04-14 10:04:57

tombeau

tombeau@ein-hub-von-vielen.de

!@Mike Macgirvin 🖥️

I replaced my Stream instance at home digitalesparadies.de by a new Forte instance forte.digitalesparadies.de. It was installed on a new Raspi 5.

Forte was installed by the debian-setup.sh, see #^https://codeberg.org/fortified/forte/pulls/15

I was able to register two first users one admin account and an additional ordinary user ojrandom@forte.digitalesparadies.de
Everything looked fine until I tried to connect to somebody. Then I checked the domain by a ping. It failed, but must have worked during the installation. Otherwise the creation of the certificate by letsencrypt would have failed, I guess.

I had to stop my activities, so I could not find out the cause and fix the dynDNS update. Today I am back again to have a look. As guessed, the update of the dynamic IP did not work. The download of the update script failed during installation for some reason. The script includes a check now to prevent this behavior.

Now my errors...

I try to connect to somebody in Forte (you), Hubzilla (one of my accounts at Hubzilla). Both fails.
I try to connect one of my Hubzilla accounts to ojrandom@forte.digitalesparadies.de. It fails.
The page #^https://forte.digitalesparadies.de/directory does show my own instance only. ("only this hub" is unchecked. I played around with all of the checkboxes. No change.)

Any ideas how this can be fixed?

Is there something wrong with the server that is used as "directory server"? Something in this direction?

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2025-04-15 23:14:30

Mike Macgirvin 🖥️

mikedev@fediversity.site

Might be too late now...

The logs can get to be overwhelming, but they are a great place to start. The software is pretty good about logging anything out of the ordinary, and at the highest levels also provides the data at nearly every important step. If I even had a good place to start it might be a fixed-in-10-minutes-answer. It's a foreign system where I'm assuming connections aren't being made or are being made incorrectly. Or is it that OK and only other communications broken? I don't know. I assume the Hubzilla nodes have pubcrawl enabled, because forte only speaks ActivityPub. Otherwise all I can do from here at the moment is make completely wild guesses and I don't even have the data to test them on. So if you continue down this path, please help to reduce what I need to do to even find the problem. The code seems daunting, but the processes aren't that hard.

There is no directory server. Well there is, but every node is its own directory server and will take some time to learn the network around them.

2025-04-15 23:45:46

tombeau

tombeau@ein-hub-von-vielen.de

Pubcrawl is/was enabled on the Hubzilla site.

Might be too late now...

Yes.

And a missed chance to find and fix something if there is anything to fix. (There is a good change that I did a silly thing two times in a row that caused the behavior. On the other side... The - basically - identical script managed to install Hubzilla, same Raspi-OS image, same internet router.)

2025-04-15 23:56:47

tombeau

tombeau@ein-hub-von-vielen.de

May be you started to thing about and feel better to have it solved ...just a thought.... If it is of use for you:

I could install Forte again on this Raspi and give you the ssh login and pass to adminer. This Raspi is a little bit for experiments anyway. I have two other Hubzilla instances running.

Installing Forte with the help of the script is about 1.5 h time or me, including dynDNS, subdomain, all image copying and updates. I could do it on Thursday and would be glad to help to make Forte installation more stable.

Video - Check daily update of Hubzilla

2025-04-02 12:24:42

tombeau

tombeau@ein-hub-von-vielen.de

00:00 Hubzilla: check log file of daily update script as admin
00:50 Raspi console: login via ssh
01:10 Raspi console: look for cron_job.sh in crontab (it does the daily update)
02:00 Raspi console: show content of cron_job.sh in editor

(The cause of the error message in the log was fixed.)

video_tutorial

Video - How to install Hubzilla on a Raspberry Pi 5

2025-04-01 19:47:57

tombeau

tombeau@ein-hub-von-vielen.de

00:00 DynDNS at selfHOST.de: Create account
00:30 DynDNS at selfHOST.de: Create a subdomain
01:00 DynDNS at selfHOST.de: Link the subdomain to dynDNS profile
01:25 DynDNS at selfHOST.de: View the values for dynDNS: user, pass:
01.50 Fritzbox (router at home): settings for exposed host
02:20 Raspi: login
02:45 Repository, install script: where to find link
03:20 Raspi, install script preparations
05:55 Raspi, install script configuration: db pass, domain for letsencrypt, dynDNS user and pass
08:00 Raspi, install script run: install Hubzilla
12:15 Hubzilla: self check and first configuration, db password
13:50 Raspi: switch of email verification
14:40 Hubzilla: create admin account
15:20 Hubzilla: close new registration (hub wide)
15:50 Hubzilla: deactivate email notifcations (admin account only)

video_tutorial

Fixes for debianinstall script

2024-12-28 00:38:46

tombeau

tombeau@ein-hub-von-vielen.de

@Hubzilla Development

Please see #^https://framagit.org/hubzilla/core/-/merge_requests/2179 It contains some fixes for installing Hubzilla automatically.

Here is a wiki #^https://framagit.org/ojrandom/core/-/wikis/home on how to install Hubzilla inside a virtual machine and to debug the PHP code of Hubzilla.

What are your preferred tools to write/debug code for Hubzilla? Would be interesting to know.

2025-01-08 20:37:35

Harald Eilertsen

harald@hub.volse.no

I'm using a DDEV based environment I set up for Hubzilla dev work. You can find it here:
#^https://code.volse.net/hubzilla/hubzilla-ddev.git/

And I've put up some docs for it here:
#^https://docs.volse.net/hubzilla-ddev/

It's basically a wrapper around docker that takes care of the boring stuff for you. I've added a few niceties to it to make some Hubzilla specifics easier. Like setting up a test db, running the unit tests, generating coverage reports, running PHPStan static analysis on the code etc.

Which reminds me: I have some updates I need to finish documenting and push soon.

2025-01-09 12:55:40

tombeau

tombeau@ein-hub-von-vielen.de

@Harald Eilertsen Wow, interesting, thanks.

Roadhouse question

2022-01-11 15:02:49

tombeau

tombeau@ein-hub-von-vielen.de

@Zap Do I have to do something on Roadhouse like a "composer update" you mentioned. Why? Both of my Roadhouse instance stopped to work.

Roadhouse

Foundation with bbcode in Hubzilla webpages?

2021-01-23 15:13:45

tombeau

tombeau@ein-hub-von-vielen.de

@Haakon Meland Eriksen (Parlementum) Is it possible to use foundation and bbcode together in a webpage of Hubzilla?

I am referring to #^https://elsmussols.net/wiki/parlehaakon/Responsive(28)20(29)web(28)20(29)pages(28)20(29)with(28)20(29)Foundation(28)20(29)6(28)20(29)in(28)20(29)Hubzilla/Home&owt=5ff3747ca178b0e11912c998ac838a07

Bundesverfassungsgericht

2020-06-23 01:00:18

tombeau

tombeau@ein-hub-von-vielen.de

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2020-05-30 16:31:38

tombeau

tombeau@ein-hub-von-vielen.de

Der Brandanschlag in Solingen am 29. Mai 1993 und die halbe Wahrheit

2020-05-22 11:39:10

tombeau

tombeau@ein-hub-von-vielen.de

#^Der Brandanschlag in Solingen am 29. Mai 1993 und die halbe Wahrheit

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