Friendica - A Decentralized Social Network

[peterle]

There are so many people ready to leave facebook...and friendica would be an easy to install alternative, if there would be a docker for cloudron...
someone started a while ago...
https://github.com/M-arcus/friendica-docker-image

[peterle]

I just found this:
https://friendi.ca/2020/01/11/friendica-now-has-an-official-docker-image/
perhaps its now much easier to build a docker for cloudron and make friendica a cloudron app ?

[murgero]

@peterle I can assist getting it to work on the new LAMP app if you need - I've got it working before (don't actively use it though)

what issues did you have?

[YurkshireLad]

Did anyone get this to work?

[murgero]

@YurkshireLad It works great in the lamp app!

[DanTheMan]

@murgero
Just curious.. how did you installed it in the lamp app?
Is it hard to do?

[murgero]

@DanTheMan Remove all the contents of the /app/data/public folder and unzip friendica in there.

this can be done via cli or via sftp.

[DanTheMan]

@murgero Thanks for the info and quick response
I will try it out tomorrow and see how it performs..

[murgero]

@DanTheMan I forget the exact steps, but Friendica requires a 5-min cron job to run, this can be done in lamp by adding the cron string to a file in /app/data (I think just crontab?? I can't find info on it anymore but I know the feature was there a while back)

[girish]

cron is now moved to the app section - https://docs.cloudron.io/apps/#cron

[DanTheMan]

Thanks guys for all the great support and info

I have tried to make it happen. But after uploading the extracted (full friendica zip) content to the lamp stacks public folder, i only see a php page on the subdomain I have created with the lamp stack?

I have followed up this guide..
https://friendi.ca/resources/installation/
There's a section there in the guide that says: "Additionally, rename .htaccess-dist to .htaccess if you’re using the Apache web server."
I did change that file before uploading to the stacks public folder.

I must say that i have been successful last week, by installing a lamp stack with Prestashop on it. It's been running smoothly since then.
The silly thing is i am doing the same thing here with Friendica as i did with Prestashop last week. Unzip, extract and upload to the public folder of the Lamp stack. From there it was just a web based setup.

[murgero]

@DanTheMan I can assist if you need - Send me a dm

[RazielKanos]

Is here any update? I think cloudron could be an amazing tool to bring more people into the fediverse apps.