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1. hosh (hosh@hub.disroot.org)'s status on Friday, 10-Aug-2018 05:03:20 EDT hosh
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   I set up a new personal instance a couple of days ago on nearlyfreespeech.net.
   Everything is working quite well, but I have a couple of questions. I'll try to ask these also over at nearlyfreespeech, but it's possible that someone here already has experience with these issues and can answer them.

   • how to set up file permissions to allow the web server to write, as is required by Hubzilla. Of course 777 works but isn't safe.
   • how to make Wordpress allow crossposting from Hubzilla. It's denying authorization. (I have the hubzilla addon and filled in the login credentials.) This might also be about file permissions, this time with WP. (My blog is on the same server.)
   • Hubzilla keeps logging me out, in an unpredictable way. Anything I can do about that?
   • Does Hubzilla have an endless scroll addin or something for the activity feed? After loading the number of posts set in the settings (20 by default - I've raised that), I can't see any more.

   Thanks for any help or suggestions with these!
   1. hosh (hosh@hub.vikshepa.com)'s status on Friday, 10-Aug-2018 10:22:57 EDT hosh

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      I find that the disroot.org hub is so much quicker than my new one, it may not be even have been worth the effort, other than to have it as a clone.
   2. hosh (hosh@hub.vikshepa.com)'s status on Friday, 10-Aug-2018 22:30:27 EDT hosh

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      Thanks everyone. I'll have a look at it tomorrow. I think I cannot change ownership to apache but see that someone may have solved a similar permissions problem by giving the 'web' group ownership and then limiting the permissions. Does that make sense?
      
      It isn't a VPS. nearlyfreespeech.net works a little differently from traditional shared hosting though, and people are able to run things like Django on it. I would go with something like Digital Ocean (which is affordable), but am a little allergic to all these huge companies. Somebody may one day be able to explain to me the philosophical difference between letting a Google or an Amazon control my data and finding a solution with a slightly smaller company, but I think the difference is mainly pragmatic. But we make our compromises. Better would be to run a home server but even if that's possible I'm not sure I trust my ISP or myself, and I would also be spending about the same amount on a service on a service to compensate for the dynamic IP.
   3. hosh (hosh@hub.vikshepa.com)'s status on Saturday, 11-Aug-2018 16:02:21 EDT hosh

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      Thanks @Yuki Still haven't tried; too much action around here today. If I understood @DM42.Net, LLC properly, he's speaking of an open ID plugin, so that would mean it would permit hubzilla to present itself as an identity source for wordpress and other sites that accept openID - I think there used to be more of those. Indeed, it's nice to have logins that are based on the open web rather than on Twitter, Facebook or Google. In practice, though, even when openID was the next best thing, I never managed very well with it. Nowadays I just use a a password manager.
   4. hosh (hosh@hub.vikshepa.com)'s status on Sunday, 12-Aug-2018 16:33:45 EDT hosh

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      So, I did a "chgrp -R web" on the directories mentioned in the installation manual, then changed (where necessary) the permissions to 775. It seems to be working. On nearlyfreespeech.net, these were also the instructions for WordPress. I'm not sure if it's solved the problem of the system unpredictably logging me out, as that has already happened once. But we shall see.