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+ <head>
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+ <title>Roll Your Own Twitter Alternative with GNU Social</title>
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+ <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">
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+ <meta charset="UTF-8">
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+ <meta name="keywords" content="Alternative,Debian,GNU Social,Homelab,How To,Linux,Micro Blogging,Microblogging,PHP,Self-Hosted,Social Media,Social Network,Tutorial,Twitter,Twitter Alternative,Web Based,i12bretro">
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+ <meta name="author" content="i12bretro">
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+ <meta name="description" content="Roll Your Own Twitter Alternative with GNU Social">
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+ <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0">
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+ <meta name="revised" content="07/10/2021 12:38:36 PM" />
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+ <link rel="icon" type="image/x-icon" href="includes/favicon.ico">
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+ <script type="text/javascript" src="https://code.jquery.com/jquery-3.5.1.min.js"></script>
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+ <script type="text/javascript" src="includes/js/steps.js"></script>
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+ <link href="css/steps.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
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+ </head>
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+ <body>
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+ <div id="gridContainer">
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+ <div class="topMargin"></div>
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+ <div id="listName" class="topMargin">
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+ <h1>Roll Your Own Twitter Alternative with GNU Social</h1>
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+ </div>
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+ <div></div>
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+ <div id="content">
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+ <ol>
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+ <li>Log into the Debian device</li>
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+ <li>Run the following commands in a terminal:
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+ <div class="codeBlock"># update software repositories<br />
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+ sudo apt update<br />
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+ # install software updates<br />
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+ sudo apt upgrade -y<br />
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+ # install Apache and MySQL<br />
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+ sudo apt install apache2 mariadb-server mariadb-client -y<br />
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+ # install PHP components<br />
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+ sudo apt install php7.3 libapache2-mod-php7.3 php7.3-curl php7.3-mbstring php7.3-xml php7.3-fpm php7.3-gd php7.3-gmp php7.3-intl php7.3-mysql php7.3-json -y<br />
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+ # download gnu social<br />
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+ wget -O ~/Downloads/gnu-social-master.tar.gz https://git.gnu.io/gnu/gnu-social/-/archive/master/gnu-social-master.tar.gz<br />
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+ # extract the tar.gz<br />
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+ tar zxf ~/Downloads/gnu-social-*.tar.gz --directory ~/Downloads<br />
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+ # move the folder to web root<br />
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+ sudo mv ~/Downloads/gnu-social-*/ /var/www/html/gnusocial<br />
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+ # set permissions<br />
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+ sudo chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www/html/gnusocial/<br />
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+ sudo chmod g+w /var/www/html/gnusocial/<br />
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+ # configure the MySQL database<br />
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+ sudo su<br />
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+ mysql_secure_installation</div>
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+ </li>
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+ <li>Press Enter to login as root</li>
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+ <li>Type Y and press Enter to set a root password, type the password twice to confirm</li>
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+ <li>Type Y and press Enter to remove anonymous users</li>
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+ <li>Type Y and press Enter to disallow root login remotely</li>
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+ <li>Type Y and press Enter to remove the test database</li>
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+ <li>Type Y and press Enter to reload privilege tables</li>
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+ <li>Run the following command to login into MySQL:
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+ <div class="codeBlock">mysql -u root -p</div>
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+ </li>
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+ <li>Authenticate with the root password set earlier</li>
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+ <li>Run the following commands to create the GNU Social database and database user
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+ <div class="codeBlock">CREATE DATABASE gnusocial CHARACTER SET utf8mb4 COLLATE utf8mb4_unicode_ci;<br />
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+ CREATE USER 'gnusocial_rw'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'gnu$ocia1!!';<br />
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+ GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON gnusocial.* TO 'gnusocial_rw'@'localhost';<br />
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+ FLUSH PRIVILEGES;<br />
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+ EXIT;<br />
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+ exit</div>
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+ </li>
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+ <li>Continue with the following commands:
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+ <div class="codeBlock"># edit default apache conf<br />
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+ sudo nano /etc/apache2/sites-available/000-default.conf</div>
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+ </li>
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+ <li>Paste the following at the bottom of the .conf file<br />
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+ <Directory /var/www/html/gnusocial/><br />
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+ AllowOverride all<br />
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+ </Directory></li>
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+ <li>Press CTRL+O, Enter, CTRL+X to write the changes</li>
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+ <li>Continue with the following commands:
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+ <div class="codeBlock"># enable .htaccess in ./gnusocial<br />
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+ sudo cp /var/www/html/gnusocial/htaccess.sample /var/www/html/gnusocial/.htaccess<br />
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+ # set the relative path in .htaccess<br />
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+ sudo sed -i "s/RewriteBase \//RewriteBase \/gnusocial\//g" /var/www/html/gnusocial/.htaccess<br />
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+ # enable apache2 modules<br />
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+ sudo a2enmod rewrite<br />
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+ # restart apache2<br />
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+ sudo systemctl restart apache2</div>
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+ </li>
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+ <li>Open a web browser and navigate to http://DNSorIP/gnusocial/install.php</li>
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+ <li>The GNU Social installation screen should be displayed</li>
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+ <li>Enter a site name and fill out the database connection information as follows
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+ <p>Hostname: localhost<br />
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+ Name: gnusocial<br />
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+ DB username: gnusocial_rw<br />
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+ DB password: gnu$ocia1!!</p>
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+ </li>
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+ <li>Enter an administrator username, password and email</li>
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+ <li>Click the Submit button</li>
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+ <li>After the installation completes, click the visit your new GNU social site link toward the bottom of the page</li>
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+ <li>Click Login at the top right of the page</li>
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+ <li>Login with the administrator user created during initialization</li>
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+ <li>Welcome to GNU Social</li>
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+</ol>
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+
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+<p>Source: <a href="https://git.gnu.io/gnu/gnu-social/blob/master/INSTALL" target="_blank">https://git.gnu.io/gnu/gnu-social/blob/master/INSTALL</a></p>
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+ </div>
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+ </div>
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+ </body>
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+ </html>
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