Castopod Host - open-source hosting platform made for podcasters who want engage and interact with their audience.

[jdaviescoates]

Castopod is an open-source hosting platform made for podcasters who want engage and interact with their audience. Now with added ActivityPub goodness.

https://podlibre.org/tag/castopod-host/
https://code.podlibre.org/podlibre/castopod
https://podlibre.org/castopod-host-alpha-42-fediverse/

[scooke]

@jdaviescoates Interesting, a PHP app that has ActivityPub. For some reason I assumed most ActivityPub apps would all be fancy-dancy future-tech-language apps. This looks interesting, and easily hostable even without Cloudron.

[rmdes]

I was going to suggest Castopod, glad it's already here !

[yusf]

Nice find! This fills a long-time need for me.

[axbom]

Nice, this would truly be the app that completes my dream setup on Cloudron.

[privsec]

Could this be ran in a LAMP app?

[privsec]

This has an existing Docker file - https://docs.castopod.org/getting-started/docker.html

[robi]

@privsec said in Castopod Host - open-source hosting platform made for podcasters who want engage and interact with their audience.:

Could this be ran in a LAMP app?

Looks like it should.. try it.

[privsec]

@robi
How does one install PHP addons?

[robi]

@privsec said in Castopod Host - open-source hosting platform made for podcasters who want engage and interact with their audience.:

@robi
How does one install PHP addons?

If not already part of the LAMP PHP image, an env variable is set as to where PHP can find them, and you point it somewhere in /app/data.

[steinhmor]

@privsec I've installed castopod in a LAMP app - it works fine

[privsec]

@steinhmor

Awesome!! I’ll have to give it try next weekend.

It looks promising

[micmc]

@privsec It's now reached version 1.0 BETA and it sounds great indeed.
https://castopod.org/

[ajtatum]

This is something I would absolutely love to see in Cloudron. I'll give the LAMP stack a go though!

[privsec]

@steinhmor
How did you do it?

[murgero]

@privsec It's a PHP script, so you can install as any other script, unzip and upload to the /app/data/public/ dir and run the installer via the web

[martinkbs]

@murgero How do you do this installation step in Cloudron? How modify the parameters so that root folder points to Castopod's public/ subfolder.

If you upload the castopod folder to /app/data/public/ ¿?

Thanks!

[murgero]

@martinkbs Ah forgot about that, upload the script to /app/data/ instead so the castopod public folder goes into /app/data/public

[privsec]

@murgero I’ll try this again, but I did that and it just gave me an Oops error screen

[murgero]

@privsec Once you are done uploading make sure the permissions are www-data:www-data with 755.

[privsec]

@murgero I have looked through the docs, but cant find the answer.

Within the console view of the app, how do I grant those permissions?

Sorry I am asking really dumb questions.

[robi]

@privsec use the File Manager app instead of console to make it much easier and obvious.

[privsec]

So I copied the files from the download I got from here
https://code.castopod.org/adaures/castopod/uploads/d10a3e7cc8c5d8ff57b5d76dcdfeaa58/castopod-1.0.0-beta.20.zip
into the app/data/ folder. This is what it looks like

I confirmed all files are assigned www-data owner

I then went to my.domain.com/cp-install and I get

I know that I must be missing something simple, but I dont see what.

[murgero]

@privsec Can you use CLI to run the following command in /app/data/ and /app/data/public/?

Run ls -lah <folder> and report back?

[privsec]

@murgero absolutely!

[privsec]

@murgero said in Castopod Host - open-source hosting platform made for podcasters who want engage and interact with their audience.:

ls -lah <folder>

This is the public folder

This is the app/data folder

[privsec]

I know reuploaded the public folder and corrected the permissions to be www-data.

I am not back to the Whoops page, it displays Whoops in the tab of the webpage, and only presents a blank white screen in the tab itself.

When I travel to the /cp-admin url, it presents a login screen, I then login with the credentials of my cloudron account and it acts as if it logs in, but takes me to a blank white page and the URL is cp-auth/login

I am grateful for your help.

[murgero]

@privsec

1. Castopod has no integration with cloudron, don't do that.
2. your permissions on the public folder are bad, gotta fix those. (chown -R www-data:www-data /app/data/public)
3. you need to run the install script, which will ask you to setup a new user and password. Use that to login.

[privsec]

@murgero HUZZAH!

I can now access the admin dashboard, thank you!

[steinhmor]

@privsec Sorry for the late reaction.
I just changed some settings in app/data/apache/app.conf

<VirtualHost *:80>
DocumentRoot /app/data/public/castopod/public

I also added these lines at the end of the app.conf:

php_value post_max_size 200M
php_value upload_max_filesize 200M
php_value memory_limit 128M

I think I found the hint in the cloudron docs for lamp and the castopod docs.

Happy to read that you found another solution.

Edit: specified the filename.

[privsec]

@steinhmor
Those lines you added, is that in the php file?

[steinhmor]

@privsec no, these are also part of the Apache-config and tell cloudron / lamp how big the uploaded files are allowed be.

[steinhmor]

I rediscovered the post about changing the Document-root in the cloudron forum:
https://forum.cloudron.io/topic/3503/changing-documentroot

[jdaviescoates]

1.0 came out recently

https://blog.castopod.org/castopod-v1/

and there is an official docker

https://docs.castopod.org/getting-started/docker.html

[whitespace]

Now that Castopod has reached v 1.0 can we have it on Cloudron? That would be excellent. I wish I could help but I am not a programmer.

Alternatively, people who installed Castopod on LAMP-stack, is anyone willing to write a short tutorial?

[jdaviescoates]

@whitespace said in Castopod Host - open-source hosting platform made for podcasters who want engage and interact with their audience.:

Now that Castopod has reached v 1.0 can we have it on Cloudron?

+

We don't really have any podcasting solutions on Cloudron yet, so it'd be really great to have this!

And extra bonus points because it's also support ActivityPub and so is part of the fediverse too! (which is massively gaining traction because Musk is such an idiot)

[micmc]

@jdaviescoates said in Castopod Host - open-source hosting platform made for podcasters who want engage and interact with their audience.:

We don't really have any podcasting solutions on Cloudron yet, so it'd be really great to have this!

And extra bonus points because it's also support ActivityPub and so is part of the fediverse too! (which is massively gaining traction because Musk is such an idiot)

Moreoever, it already has its Official DOCKER image, so what else is there to ask, or need.

https://docs.castopod.org/getting-started/docker.html

[yusf]

Castopod works great so far on the Cloudron LAMP stack app. Great software.

Only thing not working for me is email smtp.

[yusf]

Can’t get Castopod to federate either, not sure what’s wrong.

[scooke]

@yusf Whats the handle(s), I can take a look from outside.

[yusf]

@scooke you on Matrix?

[scooke]

@yusf yes.

[scooke]

@yusf The network I'm on won't let the chat work, it seems. Strange. But something caught my eye - you want to get Castopod's federation working, but you've asked me to check via Matrix, right? Well, from what I understand, Matrix IS its federation software, whereas Castopod uses ActivityPub to federate, and the two do not inter-federate normally. So maybe this is why you can't get Castopod to federate... you are checking it with the wrong protocol. Check it with a Mastodon instance, at least, and maybe a Pixelfed or Peertube instance. You can DM me the address you want checked, if it uses AP, and I can check with my instances.

[yusf]

@scooke No no, I just wanted to have the convo in private, on Matrix