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
