How to Setup LinkStack on Cloudron

LoudLemur

As of 2025-08-07, here are the links to download all the Linkstack community themes:

We found the linkstack application to be quite slow once it had been installed. For example, switching between one page and another in the admin panel took a while.

What do you think is the cause?

Common Causes of Slow Performance:
PHP-FPM/Apache configuration - Default LAMP settings may be conservative
Laravel framework overhead - LinkStack is built on Laravel which can be resource-heavy
Database queries - SQLite can be slower than MySQL for complex operations
Missing PHP opcache - PHP isn’t caching compiled code
Resource limits - LAMP app may have CPU/memory constraints
Quick Performance Improvements:
Option 1: Switch to MySQL (Faster than SQLite)
In your LinkStack admin:
Database settings → Switch from SQLite to MySQL
Use the credentials from /app/data/credentials.txt
Option 2: Enable PHP Optimizations
If you can access the LAMP configuration:
bash
Copy

Check if opcache is enabled

php -m | grep -i opcache

Option 3: Increase LAMP Resources
In Cloudron:
Go to your LinkStack (LAMP) app settings
Increase memory limit if available
Check resource usage in the app dashboard

rstockm

Thanks for this HowTo.
I'm stuck with Step 2:

@LoudLemur said in How to Setup LinkStack on Cloudron:

If you see a 500 error, you likely unzipped locally - start over with server extraction
If files aren't loading, check that index.php exists in /app/data/public/
Verify ownership with ls -la - all files should show www-data www-data

This is all fine, the LAMP start page was visible before. Restarting the server results in an endless "restarting..." status of the LAMP app on the cloudron dashboard. Any ideas? I used the build-in console of the LAMP-app

LoudLemur

Quick answer:

```mv linkstack/* .
mv linkstack/.* . 2>/dev/null
rm -rf linkstack/

and chown:

To fix this issue, which we also had, ensure you extract the .zip contents to (not to another folder) and that you have fixed the ownership to www-data:www-data. It was easier to sort this using the terminal in the LAMP application.

In bash terminal, or whatever the name of your zip file is:

unzip linkstack.zip
ls -la

You’ll probably see a folder like LinkStack-main/ or linkstack/. Move its contents to the current directory:

mv LinkStack-main/* .
mv LinkStack-main/.* . 2>/dev/null
rm -rf LinkStack-main/
rm linkstack.zip

Then verify:

ls -la

You should now see files like index.php, artisan, .env.example etc. directly in /app/data/public/.
After that, restart your LAMP app (perhaps you named it linkstack) and visit https://linkstack.whateveryourwebsiteis.com - you should now see the LinkStack setup page!

If you go into the terminal, and run ls -la, you should see:

/app/data/public# ls -la

total 16
drwxr-xr-x 3 www-data www-data 4096
drwxr-xr-x 4 www-data www-data 4096 …
-rw-r–r-- 1 root root 1342 Dec 10 2024 README.md
drwxr-xr-x 13 root root 4096 Dec 10 2024 linkstack

You will see the linkstack folder was created. Now, move its contents up to the current directory:

```mv linkstack/* .
mv linkstack/.* . 2>/dev/null
rm -rf linkstack/

Verify what’s now in the directory:

ls -la

You should now see files like index.php, artisan, .env.example, etc. directly in /app/data/public/.
Then fix the ownership since some files are owned by root. Use chown

chown -R www-data:www-data .

(I can't get that chown command into a code block on the forum for some reason...)

(Please remember the dot at the end.)
Verify ownership is correct:

ls -la

LoudLemur

chown -R www-data:www-data .

rstockm

Thank you for the quick response. Nevertheless - no progress here, files seem to be at the right spot and with proper rights:

CleanShot 2025-08-11 at 13.06.23@2x.png

LoudLemur

@rstockm Have you tried using the cli to extract the files from the zip directly into the root, instead of into a folder as usually happens? If you restart from there, you might have more success.

rstockm

I'm confused. I
a) followed your instructions step-by-step using copy&paste (except the URL, of course)
b) postet a screenshot which shows all files are in the right place, and have the correct owner

so either

the vanilla Cloudron LDAP app behaves differently on different accounts (why should it, though?)
there is an error in your manual
... I am missing something else?

LoudLemur

An error in the tutorial is the most likely explanation, I think. I will try and think back to what we were doing and see if we remember something else. Restarting from scratch might be the best idea, though you have probably tried that several times already. Maybe the browser has a cache of the page or something like that...

Gengar

@rstockm I did the same as you and having the same issue also.

I guess @LoudLemur there is an issue in the tutorial.

@rstockm did you suceed ?

rstockm

@Gengar said in How to Setup LinkStack on Cloudron:

@rstockm did you suceed ?

No, I didn't

adhodgson

I've been running with this setup for nearly 2 years, I have made the following changes to the config to use Cloudron provided services.

Database (MySQL):
DB_CONNECTION=mysql
DB_HOST=${CLOUDRON_MYSQL_HOST}
DB_DATABASE=${CLOUDRON_MYSQL_DATABASE}
DB_USERNAME=${CLOUDRON_MYSQL_USERNAME}
DB_PASSWORD=${CLOUDRON_MYSQL_PASSWORD}

I can't remember whether I entered those environment variables into the install page on first time use or whether I had to put in the credentials directly then change them when I had finished installation.

Email:
MAIL_MAILER=smtp
MAIL_HOST=${CLOUDRON_MAIL_SMTP_SERVER}
MAIL_PORT=${CLOUDRON_MAIL_SMTP_PORT}
MAIL_USERNAME=${CLOUDRON_MAIL_SMTP_USERNAME}
MAIL_PASSWORD=${CLOUDRON_MAIL_SMTP_PASSWORD}
MAIL_FROM_ADDRESS=${CLOUDRON_MAIL_FROM}
MAIL_FROM_NAME="${APP_NAME}"

Redis (https://blog.linkstack.org/redis-linkstack/
REDIS_HOST=${CLOUDRON_REDIS_HOST}
REDIS_PASSWORD=${CLOUDRON_REDIS_PASSWORD}
REDIS_PORT=${CLOUDRON_REDIS_PORT}
CACHE_DRIVER=redis
SESSION_DRIVER=redis

Hope this helps.
Andrew.

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How to Setup LinkStack on Cloudron

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How to Setup LinkStack on Cloudron

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Step-by-Step Installation

Step 1: Install LAMP App

Step 2: Download and Extract LinkStack

Step 3: Complete Installation Wizard

Step 4: Configure for Theme Installation

Step 5: Install All Available Themes

Step 6: Final Configuration

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