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h.EAR.t

somewhere between the lines, Tue, 10 Apr 2018 22:26:36 +0200 last edited: Tue, 10 Apr 2018 22:32:32 +0200

When you register at Hubzilla you are presented with a choice of channel roles. There are

social channels with varying privacy settings
forums with varying privacy settings
feed channels
a soap box function for announcement only channels
group repositories

The docs explain the basics about what is what, but I was always missing a tabled overview. So I created one.

https://hubzilla.rocks/articles/tobias/hubzilla%252bchannel%252broles+an+overview

channel roles howto Hubzilla

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Andrew

Wed, 11 Apr 2018 11:46:21 +0200

This will be handy. I'd share it but somehow the Link to Source is buggered.

This will be refined over time, this graphic is just a first quick and dirty draft done in LibreOffice Calc and will be updated into a native table.

That is going to be one crazy block of BBcode! And if history is any guide, it will become outdated rapidly. This is something we could probably generate automatically in the code. It could be accessible when people are selecting a permission role and would naturally stay up-to-date.

@Zachary Dunn
#developertraining

h.EAR.t

Wed, 11 Apr 2018 18:04:00 +0200 last edited: Wed, 11 Apr 2018 18:14:14 +0200

@Mike Macgirvin
You are right, I made a mistake. Social does not have perms_auto, which I understand as autoconnect.

What I have not yet managed to find a meaning for is $ret['limits']. Any hint? :)

And "Default Collection" ... I believe that means connections are sorted into a default privacy group, the new name for collection? Yet that is - unfortunately - only configurable if I chose custom mode. Which for me is a huuuge reason to chose custom mode but ... ... ... maybe that should be moved to general access?
Or does that mean "Default permission group", which then is not reflected if I change the channel role.
(Note to self: Need to describe these default permission group roles as "follower, contributor, publisher", have never really looked into that before.)

    case 'forum_private':
                $ret['perms_auto'] = false;
                $ret['default_collection'] = true;
                $ret['directory_publish'] = false;
                $ret['online'] = false;
                $ret['perms_connect'] = [
                    'view_stream', 'view_profile', 'view_contacts', 'view_storage',
                    'view_pages', 'view_wiki', 'post_wall', 'post_comments',
                    'post_mail', 'post_like' , 'chat'
                ];
                $ret['limits'] = PermissionLimits::Std_Limits();
                $ret['limits']['view_profile']  = PERMS_SPECIFIC;
                $ret['limits']['view_contacts'] = PERMS_SPECIFIC;
                $ret['limits']['view_storage']  = PERMS_SPECIFIC;
                $ret['limits']['view_pages']    = PERMS_SPECIFIC;
                $ret['limits']['view_wiki']     = PERMS_SPECIFIC;

                break;

h.EAR.t

Wed, 11 Apr 2018 18:16:49 +0200

Corrected the image.

Install Hubzilla in 7 easy steps

h.EAR.t

somewhere between the lines, Thu, 20 Apr 2017 18:00:54 +0200 last edited: Mon, 09 Apr 2018 19:17:15 +0200

Edit: This howto was moved to
https://hubzilla.rocks/articles/tobias

where it is being maintained and updated.

Installing my favorite web suite aka Hubzilla on the forthcoming Debian 9 "Stretch" is a joy. Quick, straightforward and easy. I will show you how to do it in about 10 minutes or less.
Currently I am preparing for the switch to Debian 9 "Stretch". So far I am quite happy with the update and I am pretty happy to finally welcome back to my favourite distro the pacemaker clustering suite. But that is another story and shall be told at another time. :)
(This is just a quick cheatsheet, I will later write a longer howto for later. Promised.)
I am starting with a basic Debian installation. The only additional feature chosen during installation is ssh-server.

The Basics: Install the required dependencies:
apt-get install vim git apache2 mariadb-server php certbot python-certbot-apache php-curl php-gd php-mbstring php-xml php-mysql php-zip

Webserver apache: Create vhost file /etc/apache2/sites-available/hubzilla.conf and enable vhost, enable the required apache module rewrite

<VirtualHost *:80> 
    ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost
    ServerName my-hubzilla.site
    DocumentRoot /var/www/hubzilla
    <Directory />
        Options FollowSymLinks
        AllowOverride All
    </Directory>
    <Directory /var/www/>
        Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
        AllowOverride All
        Order allow,deny
        allow from all
    </Directory>
    ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/hubzilla_error.log
    LogLevel warn
    CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/hubzilla_access.log combined
</VirtualHost>

Enable the new vhost
enable /etc/apache2/sites-available/hubzilla.conf
Enable apache modules rewrite
a2enmod rewrite
Restart apache2 in order to activate all these changes
systemctl restart apache2

Download Hubzilla: clone the Hubzilla Git repository and chown everything to be writable to the webserver account www-data
cd /var/www/ ; git clone https://github.com/redmatrix/hubzilla ; chown -R www-data. hubzilla;

create the database

mysql -u root 
create database hubzilla ; CREATE USER 'hubzilla'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'totally-secret-password'; GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON hubzilla.* to 'hubzilla'@'localhost';

SSL Encryption: create the letscencrypt certificates in order to use SSL and have certbot automatically configure your apache vhost to use SSL. Just follow the instructions. Let certbot configure your vhost to use SSL.
certbot
setup a cronjob
echo "*/10 * * * * cd /var/www/hubzilla; /usr/bin/php Zotlabs/Daemon/Master.php Cron" >> /etc/crontab
Finally: open your browser and follow the instructions.
https://my-hubzilla.site