Yes please! I need help installing forks of certain apps as custom cloudron apps. I have the skillset to figure it out eventually, just not the time.

Because of that, i would love to throw someone a little money to help get me started.

@BrutalBirdie Hey, thanks, yes I've read this several times. Believe it or not it's still a step beyond some of us that have never used docker. I appreciate you simplifying it, and I'll give it a shot based on your explanation (thanks!) but the reality is that it still doesn't change the need for freelancers.

EDIT:
Your explanation lacks details for the cloudron manifest json. What's the reason for that?

As well, most apps are not as simple as cloning a repo and voilà. In the case of a Mastodon fork, as my example, I have to first install the required dependencies, set up the db, etc and then fork halfway through the installation process. It suddenly becomes a lot less simple.

@rmdes OK that seems to have solved it! It wasn't clear to me that there was both the config file AND the tarball located on the server.

And yeah, this new cloudron is connected to S3. the last one was more of a test... I just happened to like what I came up with and didn't feel like doing it all over again

Thanks!

@BrutalBirdie PMing you

@girish You just saved me a lot of time and headache, thank you!

This is a duplicate post from the Mastodon forum: I want to switch to the Hometown branch of Mastodon. My install is currently the default one-click installation on Cloudron.

Can I simply initialize a new git repo in the /app/code folder via the cloudron cli and switch branches/remote origins?

Or would this depend on the changes in functionality of the fork itself and it's better to package a custom app?

@rmdes thanks for the response.

Both cloudrons are hosted on AWS Lightsail. The backups were the automatic kind, I never set anything up on S3 or elsewhere. I don't have a tar.gz file, only the json

@rmdes OK that seems to have solved it! It wasn't clear to me that there was both the config file AND the tarball located on the server.

And yeah, this new cloudron is connected to S3. the last one was more of a test... I just happened to like what I came up with and didn't feel like doing it all over again

Thanks!

@rmdes thanks for the response.

Both cloudrons are hosted on AWS Lightsail. The backups were the automatic kind, I never set anything up on S3 or elsewhere. I don't have a tar.gz file, only the json

Directory does not exist or cannot be accessed: ENOENT: no such file or directory, stat '2020-10-08-060000-926'

I downloaded the json backup to my computer. (The backup id that I can copy from the old cloudron is: 2020-10-08-060000-926/app_5b46271b-ac3e-45cd-8e0a-fbb3f4a399f4_2020-10-08-060012-161_v2.13.0)

That ID is also what the new cloudron pops in automatically as "back up path" ... but then I receive the above error. There's no encryption, to my knowledge. I wonder why in the cloudron docs it references a .tar.gz file in the /tmp/ directory when my downloaded backup is a json...

Thanks for any pointers.

@BrutalBirdie PMing you

@murgero in the docs, it says this:

Create a CloudronManifest.json. This file specifies the addons (like database) required to run your app. When the app runs on the Cloudron, it will have environment variables set for connecting to the addon.

This is something that is not simple for someone like me.

@BrutalBirdie Hey, thanks, yes I've read this several times. Believe it or not it's still a step beyond some of us that have never used docker. I appreciate you simplifying it, and I'll give it a shot based on your explanation (thanks!) but the reality is that it still doesn't change the need for freelancers.

EDIT:
Your explanation lacks details for the cloudron manifest json. What's the reason for that?

As well, most apps are not as simple as cloning a repo and voilà. In the case of a Mastodon fork, as my example, I have to first install the required dependencies, set up the db, etc and then fork halfway through the installation process. It suddenly becomes a lot less simple.

@rmdes it just gets better and better

@rmdes thanks! Just what I needed. Didn't realize it was so simple, ha

Yes please! I need help installing forks of certain apps as custom cloudron apps. I have the skillset to figure it out eventually, just not the time.

Because of that, i would love to throw someone a little money to help get me started.

I've been building a WP site on cloudron to replace an old one.. it's using a staging subdomain on a different domain than the live site.

I'm now ready to add the live domain to cloudron and change the WP's base URL... is there a simple way to do this or must I manually migrate the WP content, theme, settings, plug-in, etc?