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lao9s

Hi everyone,
Thank you @plusone-nick for your contribution. I'm glad to see that the community has found a solution to install Mixpost in Cloudron.

I have a question, why do we have to delete the voids from the Kernel file?

plusone-nick

@lao9s Hey Dima,

Thanks!
I recall that I was getting some error with Kernel.php, so I was really just shooting in the dark trying things. It could have been resolved via another change I made, and I was confusing the results.

Will have to go back and try to reproduce the error. But assuming I broke or bypassed something with the change, what are the implications?

Edit* Any suggestions/edits on the docs are more than welcome =]

lao9s

@plusone-nick Technically, there should be no error in those functions from Kernel.

I think you had some errors elsewhere and thought this was the solution. If you now have Mixpost functional, try to return ":void" and see if everything is fine.

plusone-nick

@lao9s 🫡roger

plusone-nick

@lao9s Everything is still green @humptydumpty make the change too
Docs update – Removed the step

Dima, I have a question – What happens when using the same pro/enterprise license on two instances? Does the local/production env var enable any test/dev feature?

lao9s

@plusone-nick

Using the same pro license in production on two or more instances is not allowed.

Using the same enterprise license in two or more instances is allowed and nothing happens.

The local env is used when you want to modify the code, usually, the work is done locally. For example: if you have env local and want to run a migration, it won't ask you if you are sure to migrate or not, it will simply run the command.

privsec

I have skimmed the docs and tried to find this answer, but haven’t.

@lao9s Can you create some sort of chart of what specially can be done on each platform?

Something similar to https://buffer.com/pricing

privsec

The reason why is I’d love to buy the early supporter enterprise license, but if certain features are not even planned to be done, then it wouldn’t be useful for some of my clients.

humptydumpty

@plusone-nick I tried upgrading to v1 using these steps (the standalone route, not Docker): https://docs.inovector.com/books/mixpost-pro-team/page/upgrading-to-v1
I ran into an error on this step: Run php artisan migrate

APPLICATION IN PRODUCTION.                                                
																	
 ┌ Are you sure you want to run this command? ──────────────────┐
 │ Yes                                                          │
 └──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘

   INFO  Running migrations.  

  2023_08_12_121215_create_job_batches_table ............................................................................................. 15ms FAIL

In Connection.php line 795:
                                                                                                                                                                 
  SQLSTATE[42S01]: Base table or view already exists: 1050 Table 'job_batches' already exists (Connection: mysql, SQL: create table `job_batches` (`id` varchar  
  (255) not null, `name` varchar(255) not null, `total_jobs` int not null, `pending_jobs` int not null, `failed_jobs` int not null, `failed_job_ids` longtext n  
  ot null, `options` mediumtext null, `cancelled_at` int null, `created_at` int not null, `finished_at` int null) default character set utf8mb4 collate 'utf8mb  
  4_unicode_ci')                                                                                                                                                 
                                                                                                                                                                 

In Connection.php line 580:
                                                                                               
  SQLSTATE[42S01]: Base table or view already exists: 1050 Table 'job_batches' already exists

I continued with the other steps regardless of the error. The went well. But the app shows a blank white page. Restoring to a working backup for now.

If this doesn't make you appreciate Cloudron even more, then I don't know what will!

humptydumpty

@plusone-nick Step 10 isn't necessary at all. I messed up the upgrade so I loaded up a fresh LAMP install and re-did the installation steps without installing supervisor (step 10) and it works fine.

I still encounter an error when I get to php artisan migrate during step 7. It's similar/same error I get when upgrading from 0.10.X to v1. The app loads a blank white page if you're upgrading but works fine regardless of the error if it's a fresh installation. At one point, I had Horizon get killed after starting it. I tried so many things that I lost track of what I did, but I couldn't get Mixpost to upgrade successfully.

Anyway, I don't remember seeing SMTP stuff in 0.10.X. For v1 in the .env file:

#SMTP
MAIL_MAILER=smtp
MAIL_HOST=smtp.mailgun.org
MAIL_PORT=587
MAIL_USERNAME=
MAIL_PASSWORD=
MAIL_ENCRYPTION=tls
MAIL_FROM_ADDRESS="hello@example.com"
MAIL_FROM_NAME="${APP_NAME}"

I guess we need to fill that from the info in credentials.txt.

robi

Making a script do the install repeatably might be a good idea.

privsec

@robi said in Mixpost:

Making a script do the install repeatably might be a good idea.

Would this just uninstall, then reinstall using the same subdomain name?

robi

@privsec not sure I follow you.. the install script would just automate your steps on new installs.

privsec

Can anyone with mixpost pro installed, what are you able to do with the social media apps? Is it simple posts only? Or can you post videos, highlights, reels, etcetra?

plusone-nick

@humptydumpty oh okay, noted. Have you done further testing? The step is not needed, so it must be installed already?

I have not gone through any of the update/upgrade process, so I cannot speak for certain.
Have you tried just installing to the “v1” instead of the upgrade process?

Something like:
composer require inovector/mixpost-pro-team "^1.0"
composer create-project inovector/mixpost-pro-team-app "^1.0"
Note: Not positive, have not tested. Could be totally wrong as composer is new to me.

Although they are “different” I have been also referencing the existing app install docs to better understand the overall app install process along with how composer works in both use cases.

Regardless, @lao9s or @girish could better advise on this as it's a bit above my head at the moment to response definitively.

humptydumpty

@plusone-nick I followed this guide in my attempt to upgrade to v1: https://docs.inovector.com/books/mixpost-pro-team/page/upgrading-to-v1

If I try to actually install supervisor, it says supervisor is already the newest version (4.2.1-1ubuntu1). That's why I decided to skip it entirely for the new installation. Re-reading the mixpost docs, it looks like supervisor should be installed on the VPS and not in the LAMP container. Maybe that's why it's failing to install. Unless Contabo has it pre-installed on their ubuntu-server images? IDK.

There was no need to specify v1 when reinstalling on a fresh LAMP. Simply going through your steps again will get you the latest upgrade. Unless, you meant when trying to upgrade a 0.10.x app. For that, I followed the guide I posted above which does use the command line you mentioned (with v1 at the end, etc.) and that didn't work. Ended up with a blank white page and with some more tinkering, Horizon would kill itself.

I don't mind upgrading Mixpost manually if there's no package for it. But, the process has to be documented well for Cloudron by @lao9s. During my troubleshooting earlier, I had to use Cloudron's backup restore multiple times, so I know that works. However, I think that's when Horizon decided to start killing itself after I restored a working 0.10.x backup. Currently, I have a persisting backup for a fresh LAMP (no mixpost installed) and another persisting backup with a working v1. I could test a backup restore of the working v1 to see if Horizon will kill itself again but that would have to wait for later. I've been at this all day, I'm exhausted.

humptydumpty

@girish Mixpost requires a process monitor to be installed. I'm running into issues when trying to install Supervisor in the LAMP terminal (did not do it for the entire VPS). Does Cloudron have that installed or is it using a different process monitor? I ask because it seems to be installed according to the error message I get when trying to install supervisor.

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
supervisor is already the newest version (4.2.1-1ubuntu1).
W: Not using locking for read only lock file /var/lib/dpkg/lock-frontend
W: Not using locking for read only lock file /var/lib/dpkg/lock
E: Archives directory /var/cache/apt/archives/partial is missing. - Acquire (2: No such file or directory)

https://docs.inovector.com/books/server-configuration-mixpost/page/installing-configuring-supervisor

girish

@humptydumpty maybe you can use @service ? See https://docs.cloudron.io/apps/#cron . Those cron tasks run alongside the app.

humptydumpty

@plusone-nick With Dima's help, I fixed the issues that were blocking the upgrade from 0.10.4 to V1. I'll post the process in a separate post. However, my question about supervisor hasn't been answered by anyone yet, and I'm baffled how the app is working without it.

My question to you is how did you get supervisor to install properly, and where did you install it? On the VPS level (as root alongside Cloudron) or within the app's terminal (containerized)?

humptydumpty

I reached out to Dima on Mixpost's Discord, and we figured out what is causing the error when running php artisan migrate. In short, there were two issues:

Mismatch in the migration file naming of what's in the file manager and what's in the database migration tables.
Wrong ownership of the migration table file that gets created with root and has to be www-data.

To Fix it:

You need to open both the file manager and access the database at yourdomain.com/phpmyadmin (login credentials are in /app/data/phpmyadmin_login.txt).

In the file manager navigate to:
/app/data/mixpost-pro-team-app/database/migrations

change the ownership of any files with root to www-data

Using phpmyadmin navigate to:
migrations table

Now, compare the file names of both and rename the files in the file manager to match what is in the database. For me, the date was different.

Note: create_mixpost_v1_tables will not exist for you yet. That gets created during the upgrade steps later on.

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