LHammonds Tutorials

Name Resolution Add your NextCloud domain(s) so they point to the local loopback (127.0.0.1) Add your other remote servers such as your mail and database server IPs so you can reference them by name. sudo vi /etc/hosts 127.0.0.1 localhost 127.0.1.1 srv-nextcloud 127.0.0.1 nextcloud.mydomain.com 192...

------------- WORK-IN-PROGRESS ------------- Greetings and salutations, I hope this thread will be helpful to those who follow in my foot steps as well as getting any advice based on what I have done / documented. To discuss this thread, please participate here: Ubuntu Forums High-level overview Ne...

Reset Password Reference Article Reset Password via PHP Maintenance Script cd /var/www/wiki.mydomain.com/maintenance/ php changePassword.php --user=MyAdminAccount --password=MyNewPassword Reset Password via Direct Database Modification If you do not know your password, you can set the password via ...

MediaWiki Backup There are various methods of backup that can be utilized but for this server, I will simply use RSync and tar. RSync will mirror the files in the production folder to a local backup folder. The archive will be created from this backup folder. Here are the folders I consider importa...

Scripting Much of the solutions beyond this point involve scripts (programming snippets / automated commands). In particular, they are Bash Scripts. I chose this due to its popularity and the fact it comes with Ubuntu. I try to make use of what comes with the system without requiring additional sof...

Upgrading MediWiki Please refer to the MediaWiki Upgrade instructions as they are your primary source of information. The documentation below is what I did to upgrade a MediaWiki 1.34.2 instance to 1.38.4 Make sure you have a recent backup of the MediaWiki site and its database. Setup the new versi...

Install MediaWiki At the time of this writing, MediaWiki's current version is 1.38.4 so we will be downloading and installing that archive. Connect to the MediaWiki server using PuTTY. At the login prompt, login with your administrator account ( administrator / myadminpass ) Type the following: cd ...

Add Non-SSL Apache Site Configuration Refer to this tutorial but substitute the example domain name and path for your domain. Add SSL Apache Site Configuration Please refer to this tutorial but substitute the example domain name and path for your domain. MediaWiki Prerequisites At the server consol...

Orphaned Files Failures happen for various reasons and sometimes the files under "uploads" are no longer attached to an upload entry...and thus cannot be deleted from the web interface. There are a few ways to find such files. On the database server you can run the following SQL command t...

Here are the default video compression/conversion settings when uploading a video: H.264 Settings: -vcodec libx264 -vf "scale=min(640\,iw):trunc(ow/a/2)*2" -vb 800k -acodec aac -ab 96k -ar 44100 -f mp4 WebM Settings: -vcodec libvpx -vf "scale=min(640\,iw):trunc(ow/a/2)*2" -vb 800...

Email Overview CumulusClips utilizes PHP's built-in "mail" function which means we need to configure php.ini to use a mail client that will send email. It seems like an industry standard to use "sendmail" based on all the tutorials out there but sendmail is a mail server itself ...

Logo Locations Images related to the admin panel "CumulusClips Admin Panel" text on top of admin panel page. (374x27) cc-admin/images/admin-logo.png Small greyscale version of the main screen logo at the bottom of the admin panel (79x32) cc-admin/images/footer-logo.png Images related to t...

Install CumulusClips Download CumulusClips, extract the archive and set permissions: cd /tmp wget http://cumulusclips.org/cumulusclips.tar.gz tar -xzvf /tmp/cumulusclips.tar.gz sudo chown www-data:root --recursive /tmp/cumulusclips sudo find /tmp/cumulusclips/. -type d -exec chmod 755 '{}' \+ sudo ...

Install CumulusClips Prerequisites At the server console, type the following to install the additional modules and restart the web service: sudo apt -y install php8.1-curl php8.1-xml php8.1-gd php8.1-zip php8.1-intl sudo systemctl reload apache2 To make sure the modules are loaded, we will create a...

Install Apache sudo apt install apache2 Install PHP for Apache with MySQL/MariaDB support sudo apt install php8.1 libapache2-mod-php8.1 php8.1-mysql Firewall Rules Edit the firewall script that was created during the initial setup of the server (if you followed my instructions ): sudo vi /var/scrip...

CumulusClips Requirements Source: http://cumulusclips.org/docs/requirements/ 1 GB RAM Linux (Kernel 2.6.32+) PHP 5.3+ MySQL 5.0+ Apache web server 2.x (with mod_rewrite enabled) PHP Modules: POSIX, GD, curl, simplexml, zip, PHP-MySQL and PDO MySQL PHP Settings: short_open_tag = On, upload_max_files...

Configure MariaDB / MySQL In this scenario, a dedicated and general-purpose database server already exists and it will be used to hold the application's database. Connect to the database server using PuTTY. Type the following commands: mysql -u root -p Enter password: rootpass CREATE DATABASE cumul...

Installation of Database Server This documentation will assume you have installed a separate and dedicated database server according to this article: How To Install MariaDB Installation of Ubuntu Server This documentation will assume you have installed Ubuntu Server according to this article: How t...