The developers are responsive and intelligent. The community rallies behind one another even the non-developers cheering on the developers.

There's a new update at least every few weeks to Cloudron so it's clearly actively maintained and it's just a brilliant platform with exciting new features that the community actually gets to weigh in on. So, yeah, thanks everyone for putting up with my incessant posting and allowing me to be part of the future of the web (I really believe that's what the Cloudron concept is going to be).

It was @fbartels live coding video on Matterbridge that helped me understand Docker, and Cloudron's context within it. I searched high and low for everything I could because I hate watching video tutorials (I'm a reader). But I really got into the video and it successfully helped me create my first app. So, I just wanted to thank him in a public way because without his video, I may not have even joined the forums - and all of you guys are great! ️

Edit: Video link in the forum below. It inspired me to become a Cloudron developer enthusiast. You should check it outtttt!

I'm making this a separate request from WP Multisite Official Support because it actually would cover a lot of use cases way beyond Wordpress. Almost every control panel allows for aliases in this way, and would be very helpful for Cloudron to add this as a base feature in the Location tab of every app (choosing whether you want a domain to be treated as a redirection to the primary domain, or as an alias to the primary domain - to which the web app would handle the routing - and that is currently already built in to Wordpress' Multisite feature).

@marcusquinn I love being a developer user myself. Contributing to the code that I'm using to run my web apps (custom or otherwise) I find very fulfilling. I followed @mehdi's advice and submitted the contributors agreement so I hope to contribute to Cloudron in a meaningful way. ️

@nebulon That's absolutely amazing what the two of you have created. Like, seriously, this is fantastic. I haven't been this excited about development in a lonk time (if you couldn't tell from my over-zealousness in the forums, I forgot how much I enjoy development).

I think this thread is valuable for @girish and @nebulon - because there are people like us who are passionate about open-source and we all have different reasons why we want to develop for and maintain apps for Cloudron and though I don’t have any issue with “semi-open-source” - I know a lot of other developers that do. Which this discussion and girish's / nebulon's reaction to the entire thread of opinions - may be a way to attract new develoeprs: “Cloudron goes fully open source” kind of headline.

I will say tho - if Cloudron became closed source I would stop creating apps for it (and I have 5 apps I have in mind to continue to port already)...okay maybe, I'm 50 / 50 on that (I really like Cloudron ). But I couldn't have created the apps I have now without direct access to their very readable and commented source. Though, they’ve made it decently clear thats not what the developers want to do (close the source entirely).

So yeah, I want to continue to hear people’s passion about their open source software beliefs and how they feel about it in the Cloudron context.

I’d def like to be part of an online get-together. The forum is great, don’t get me wrong - but an intentional online get together I think would be incredibly beneficial to the community since we all seem to have a lot of passion for the platform.

I've packaged an OpenVPN Client for Cloudron that can:

• Change VPN Servers on-demand using a full PHP / Apache based backend
• Connect to other Cloudron apps for all of their traffic (except for incoming traffic to the web app itself) to go through the VPN Server's container (which will allow for some cool intranet webapp stuff I'm sure)
• It mandates the use of LDAP so it has a log in system and only administrators are allowed to change the server the OpenVPN Client app is connected to.

So basically a VPN Client that accepts any .ovpn or .conf file to allow for connection to a new server that a different Cloudron app would be using.

I'll update this with the Github for the project. I haven't pushed it since it was finalized.

@girish You said you wanted to discuss if there needs box code changes. I outlined the 15 lines of codes that need to change to make the app work. I also have not written a dropdown box for the Cloudron Dashboard's App Settings page to "Choose which OpenVPN Client app to route your traffic through?" since I just got the hotfix tool working. Having the OVPN Client app choose the other app to connect to is possible in-app if you'd prefer to put it in there. But I'll need to make a few adjustments with the token access to make that happen seamlessly. But I do see a case for allowing users to know they're connected to an OpenVPN Client on the dashboard, just my two cents. So, the dashboard stuff is optional and up to you. But the slight box changes are unavoidable and outlined in your DMs on this forum from me. ️

Oh, POLL TIME:
• How many of you would actually want to connect more than one other app to the OpenVPN Client Cloudron app a time. It's possible (with caveats right now), but if there is demand, I'll think more of a solution to make the amount of apps able to connect to it more than 1 at a time (with no caveats which I may need to pick @appdev's brains' for help on that one).

I see some people have “app dev” labels on the forum. And I know my VPN Client isn’t on the store yet. But I wanted to ask that once girish and I figure that out - I wanted to ask if I’d get that cool label too? 🥺

This was a recently upvoted feature that was closed out but I see it as an important one for casual users. Customization of the UI by adding or removing the various links and elements is part of the “Branding” experience that was recently released. @andres-moya put it this way in Gitlab which I very much agreed with:

“ One of the useful features of Cloudron is to give users a single panel with all the apps they need in one place. But if we need to use some app that is not viable to be packed into Cloudron, this feature is lost.

But if we were able to add custom buttons to external apps, this would be great.”

@girish The script you gave as an example doesn't exist. Maybe you forgot to deploy it on the production release? Here is a working one-liner to enable it. Remove --subdomains from the end to create a subdirectory install (that's the default so you just have to remove the flag).

cd ../data/public && sudo -E -u www-data /app/pkg/wp core multisite-convert --subdomains

@lonkle I forgot I turned automatic updates off, Domain Aliases are supported in v6.1.2.

But on top of that, you should note that you only enabled Domain Aliases on subdomain multisite installs, not subdirectory multisite installs. Both of those types of Multisite Modes support multi-domains. That's important to note since many like to use subdirectories and still use multiple domains.

@girishI'm on V6.1.1 of Cloudron and installed and I installed the Wordpress Developer Edition from scratch while on 6.1.1.

I turned Wordpress into multi-site the same way I always do, does your flag require me to "Enable Multisite" a special way so the Domain Aliases will show up?

Hey guys, I was gone for awhile, but I'll be submitting a few PRs. I have to collect all of my notes. But there were a few things I needed to add that @girish hasn't yet.

I did want to ask if anyone knows off-hand, does Cloudron only display the Domain Alias configuration in the Settings pane if the site is a subdomain installation? I have a subdirectory system installed - and the option isn't showing. I'll installl a subdomain one and see if I get the option on the Cloudron Dashboard.

Anyway, stay tuned in this thread as I'll be posting my progress. Hope everyone has been well!

PS. Don't worry, I'm still releasing my OpenVPN Client for Cloudron app this summer after I speak with @girish about integrating it directly into the dashboard (which is the way we all decided was the most practical to add this feature to Cloudron). Stay tuned for that in a different thread. I want to work on Wordpress stuff first!

@marcusquinn Gonna mark this unread and go check my settings. I use a Mac with Sequel Pro, my favorite editor. But I'll figure out if I did anything differently.

By the time nebulon gave me those settings, I think I did have to change one thing. But essentially if you can get in via SSH, then this should work - I'll double check. But for now I'm gonna mark this as unread to come back to it.

And redis is already apart of Cloudron installs actually - is there a specific redis plugin that you need to use? I thought the OLS Caching plugin handled redis?

@moocloud_matt said in Apache, OLS and Nginx-Custom Benchmarks:

@lonk
it's only mandatory to be on wp.org repo

Looks like if it's a Wordpress plugin, then the code automatically falls under GLP no matter the repo: https://kinsta.com/learn/wordpress-gpl/ - that's why Wordpress premium plugins can be distributed freely.

But a plugin can implement license protections to protect their code technically, it still doesn't take away the right of the user to use it in any way they see fit EXCEPT for graphic assets.

@moocloud_matt After all of this development, what was your final stack after all of this research?

No redis cache possibile, due to license on plugin to support it

What kind of plugin, WP is mandatorily GPL for all themes and plugin code.

@moocloud_matt I only use Cloudron for personal / development purposes. My production Wordpress installation (hosted elsewhere) uses OLS so it'd be nice to use my Cloudron installation to have the same stack for testing purposes. Would you mind sharing the image with me as well?

@girish said in Event to Webhooks:

@d19dotca yes, definitely, if the status page has support for incoming webhooks.

for me, the use case is have up/down events of apps in our rocket.chat. we just have to pipe the notification stuff to a webhook, it's fairly straightforward to implement this feature.

For my use case I only need up and down events. But are you planning on adding a web hook for all notifications?