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Essentially this would allow one to run and host their own Firefox Authentication and Sync server (Sync Bookmarks, passwords, history, etc from the browser to a self-hosted server)

Links:

• https://github.com/mozilla/fxa
• https://github.com/mozilla-services/syncserver

Would anyone be interested in using such an app?

5/29/2020: As of this edit, I believe @doodlemania2's package might be a better option for most (unless you REALLY feel like using the LAMP app for like development of Pixelfed or something)
Link to @doodlemania2's app package repo Just install with Cloudron CLI

I am keeping this post unchanged otherwise for informational purposes, but please note the above. Thank you!

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Pixelfed is A free and ethical photo sharing platform, powered by ActivityPub federation. This means posts, comments, etc are feature-compatible with Mastodon, GNU/Social, Pleroma, and other ActivityPub servers!

Site: https://pixelfed.org/

This is a step by step guide getting PixelFed working in the LAMP app. This will be useful for those that want an ActivityPub server but don't want to use Nextcloud.

The following is a literal step by step guide. Please be mindful when copying & pasting terminal commands.

Step One

Install the LAMP app to the domain of choice. I recommend using the root of a domain (IE not using a subdomain) but subdomain installs are supported.

Step Two
2. Let's clone the PixelFed repo into the app, open up the Debug -> Terminal settings for the LAMP app you just installed. Some of the following wont make much sense, but trust me when I say the way we are installing is probably the best way without making a whole new app for this.

cd /app/data
git clone -b dev https://github.com/pixelfed/pixelfed.git pixelfed

Now we need to move the current public folder, then copy the data from pixelfed into the /app/data folder (just copy and paste these bits, it's easier that way)

cd /app/data
mv public public-original

## These two commands just move the contents of the pixelfed folder up one directory.
cd /app/data/pixelfed
find . -maxdepth 1 -exec mv {} .. \;
cd /app/data
rmdir pixelfed

Step Three
Time to install the PHP dependencies. This will likely take a few minutes. If you are using a smaller VPS please allow at least 15 minutes before killing the process.

composer install --no-ansi --no-interaction --optimize-autoloader

Step Four
Let's make sure permissions are good.

chown -R www-data:www-data /app/data
find . -type d -exec chmod 755 {} \; # set all directories to rwx by user/group
find . -type f -exec chmod 644 {} \;

Step Five
Let's copy the generic config, and modify it:

cp .env.example .env

Once you copied the .env file, open it up and modify the following bits to match your environment, note: Only change these bits unless you know what you are doing! The "..." signifies some scrolling between variables. Also note, you can find credentials for the LAMP app's DB, mail, and redis queue in credentials.txt in the /app/data folder.

APP_NAME="Pixelfed Prod"
...
APP_URL=http://localhost
APP_DOMAIN="localhost"
ADMIN_DOMAIN="localhost"
SESSION_DOMAIN="localhost"
...
DB_HOST=127.0.0.1
DB_DATABASE=pixelfed
DB_USERNAME=pixelfed
DB_PASSWORD=pixelfed
...
REDIS_HOST=127.0.0.1
REDIS_PASSWORD=null
...
MAIL_HOST=smtp.mailtrap.io
MAIL_PORT=2525
MAIL_USERNAME=null
MAIL_PASSWORD=null
MAIL_ENCRYPTION=null
MAIL_FROM_ADDRESS="pixelfed@example.com"
MAIL_FROM_NAME="Pixelfed"
...
## Change these to 'true' (no quotes)
## If you want to activate ActivityPub
## (The Mastodon, Pleroma, etc protocol)
ACTIVITY_PUB=false
AP_REMOTE_FOLLOW=false
AP_INBOX=false

Note:
After you register your account(s) you can disable registration by making OPEN_REGISTRATION=true equal to OPEN_REGISTRATION=false

Step Six
Now we need to initialize the Database, cache, and routes:

cd /app/data

## Generate the security key:
php artisan key:generate

## Cache configuration variables (run this command everytime you change the .env file!)
php artisan config:cache

## Link storage folder:
php artisan storage:link

## Only really needs to be ran once, but may need to be ran on updates:
## This sets up the database
php artisan migrate --force

## Setup Horizon dashboard for Admins (to see the PHP queue)
php artisan horizon:install
php artisan horizon:assets

## Cache routes
php artisan route:cache

Step Seven
Let's configure run.sh to start the Horizon service in the background as a job (since we can't really use systemd here)
Edit /app/data/run.sh and add to it at the bottom:

cd /app/data

php artisan config:cache
## php artisan migrate --force
php artisan route:cache
php artisan horizon &

This will start the horizon service after caching routes and configs. Restart the app after you change the .env file, or if the Horizon service stops for some reason.

Step Eight (Finale!)
Now, go to the URL for your app and you should see:

Note: your /app/data folder should look like this (give or take)(cd /app/data && ls -a) :

Let's make your admin account! (Used for moderation, and configuration of the server once it is live.)

1. Register an account in your new Pixelfed server. Make sure to verify the email (If you did not get an email, we cna change that manually in the DB!)

2. Login to https://APP_URL/phpmyadmin using the phpmyadmin_login.txt file for the credentials.

3. Go into the database and then select the Users table. Find your user (should be EASY) and copy the created date to the email verified column if needed, then change the is_admin from 0 to 1:
   

4. Logout of Pixelfed and log back in and you will be an admin with a verified email!

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This should cover the whole installation of Pixelfed. Let me know if I missed anything or if there are issues with any of the above. Thanks!!

@will If you look at my thread history, you will find a tutorial on how to install this on the LAMP app for use right now in Cloudron

Edit: here is the tutorial: https://forum.cloudron.io/post/5246

Am I allowed to tease a potential upcoming custom app on this????

In case you would like it, I just made a tutorial on installing Pixelfed to the LAMP app:
https://forum.cloudron.io/topic/2058/installing-pixelfed-in-the-lamp-app-properly-well-enough

@jdaviescoates If you would like, we can discuss this in a PM? I'd be more than happy to build a portal for your users to register at.

I built a beta build for this, it can be installed using:

cloudron install --image mitchellurgero/org.urgero.codeserver:0.0.2

Check post install information for details!!! Do not run on production system, etc etc.

Edit 1:

GitHub Link: https://github.com/mitchellurgero/cloudron-vscode
Docker-Hub Link: https://cloud.docker.com/u/mitchellurgero/repository/docker/mitchellurgero/org.urgero.codeserver

Hello all! I have packaged a PHP based Federated Social Network called GNU Social.
GNU Social is able to federate with itself, Mastodon, Pleroma, and more that support ActivityPub and OStatus.

Currently the package is a modified version of the LAMP 7.3 app which enables PSQL in place of MySQL.

Per GNU Social's README:

GNU social is a free social networking platform. It helps people in a community, company or group to exchange short status updates, do polls, announce events, or other social activities (and you can add more!). Users can choose which people to "follow" and receive only their friends' or colleagues' status messages. It provides a similar service to proprietary social network sites, but is much more awesome.

App Package Repo: https://git.cloudron.io/murgero/gnu-social

GNU Social Repo: https://notabug.org/diogo/gnu-social

What is currently working (Besides the basics!)

• Federation via OStatus
• Some* Federation via ActivityPub
• SMTP, invitations, registrations
• PSQL replaced MySQL in the app (though MySQL is still available if the issue with NO_ZERO_DATES gets fixed)
• Admin options
• The Basic themes (I plan on adding qvitter later!)
• Redis Queue for backend processing!

*Federation with ActivityPub servers works decently enough for me to put the app's package source up, but some issues occur here. 1) Getting followed by someone using ActivityPub (Specifically Mastodon??) you never get the notification. There may be other AP issues I am unable to test further for now.

The configuration of the app I am sure needs tweaking, the scripts will need tweaking, and upstream (See gnu social repo above) is constantly updating so I'll keep an eye out for big configuration changes.

Installing

git clone https://git.cloudron.io/murgero/gnu-social gnu-social
cd gnu-social
cloudron install --image=mitchellurgero/org.urgero.gs:latest

Or just clone, build in docker and install like any other non-store app.

https://www.asterisk.org/
https://www.freepbx.org/

Asterisk is an open source PBX. (A PBX (private branch exchange) is a telephone system within an enterprise that switches calls between enterprise users on local lines while allowing all users to share a certain number of external phone lines.)

FreePBX is a Web interface to manage PBX.

Would be interesting to see if this could be done??

EDIT: Looks like someone has already put it on the wishlist: https://forum.cloudron.io/topic/1133/asterisk-pbx-open-source-voip-ip-pbx-server

@nebulon I run this on my Raspberry Pi server at home, and it's fantastic! I wont use the cloudron app, BUT if anyone needs help setting it up and securing it, I am open to PMs!

It has pretty decent mobile apps too!

@zedomingues 587 is only for clients, not servers. port 25 supports the same encryption algorithms that 587 uses so it's just as secure (when it's told to do so).

Port 25 is mainly used for server-to-server communication and it will always need to be that way according to the RFC for SMTP.

Is this a possibility? It includes a decent web UI for managing spam as well. Any thoughts?

https://rspamd.com/

@msbt I can test too!

Just found this a bit interesting. For those that don't want to run multiple apps for this, Nextcloud has a community app that packages the Riot Client (and admin can configure it and such).

https://apps.nextcloud.com/apps/riotchat

So if you are running both Nextcloud AND Matrix, this may (or may not depending on what you want) be a simpler solution than Cloudron's packaged Riot as you do not need to allocate more resources to another app.

I am not saying this is a better solution, just something different that I thought was pretty cool.

@girish More so, it actually seems there are going to be a community and paid version of the product:

https://github.com/usefathom/fathom/issues/268#issuecomment-495797960

Edit: V1 will continue to be open source, maintained and such. Meaning security updates will be had. This is acceptable in my book for those that want it. V2 is the closed source version, but it's also likely we can change the developers mind if there was more incentive to stay open in V2 as well.

@ei8fdb These apps are mostly unmodified versions of ones you would get from the developers of said apps. You shouldn't have any issues exporting a DB, moving the DB and files over to a new instance (outside of Cloudron) and grabbing data you need.

Speaking of Nextcloud specifically, you can move the DB and files + the config with little issue if you needed to, but I don't think you'd want to after moving to Cloudron, it's that good.

I've been using it since version 3.x and I gotta say I've never used a system like it - It rocks. I've tried Mailcow+Portainer, Mailinabox, I've even self-hosted with just straight up ubuntu + Apache (manually installing and managing), but Cloudron takes the cake. We even have a LAMP app that can host PHP, nodejs, etc apps that aren't otherwise supported.

Site:
https://github.com/calzoneman/sync

The basic concept is that users register channels where connected viewers can watch videos from different video hosts (e.g., YouTube, Twitch) and the playback is synchronized for all the viewers in the channel.

I am currently trying to package this, however it actually crashes my cloudron instance. But once I get something working, I'll post a reply here

@mattp Honestly I'd wait. If you need ActivityPub right now, Nextcloud has an addon you can install to enable it. Which would allow you to speak to friendica, Matodon, pleroma, etc etc.

Then once this is in the appstore, you can move your data.

I am going to test this app in the LAMP app - if it works well I will package to prep for app store use!

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