@selfhosted SelfHosting journey stopped for a while, now continues…

I stopped for a while working on my personal website as I had to translate another big project from English to Italian; but now I took it in hands again, and guess what - the redirect from “/wp” to the domain does no longer work. Reachable just via domain . ext / wp / page-name. But I configured nginx differently.
I’ll check what happens…again…

@irmadlad The huge problem is that most documentation is in video format or full of information conveyed just by colors. In this, I have to admit, AI helps. As I can ask it to find what I need, and explain strings in human readable language. Well, of course if I have an idea of what I’m doing at least as principle. Such as “explain in words why this nginx rule doesn’t work, why test has failed”

@bytepursuits @selfhosted I’ve tried one mini-pc about 10 years ago; what a disappointment! It was a small jewel, touching it. It ran Win10, 64GB hard disk. For a couple years it has been my emergency portable aid - I installed NVDA (non visual desktop access) screen reader in it, as JAWS for Windows, the commercial one, is very heavy. So, after a few updates from Win10, this poor machine literally became so, so slow. And, hot. It seemed to have a little oven in my hands.
Now, I don’t find anything interesting; those machine, low-priced, sold in extra-EU e-commerces, don’t seem trustworthy. The second one I bought was bigger, about the size of an iPad mini. But it arrived with broken LCD screen. As a blind user, I was relying just on audio. But in the end, gearbest said “you have broken it” - money thrown in the toilet.

@selfhosted @_elena First fail:apps requesting REST API access, don’t accept the “/wp/” configuration. Tomorrow I’ll try again with a more reliable machine, smartphone can’t be used for this purpose. I’m so disappointed by the first fail! As it is now, I can’t rely on mobile and external clients such as #quill and #ulysses

@selfhosted @_elena

DONE!!! FINALLY! Multi-site works, and fun can begin!

Our presentation page is up, and I’m impressed as the site seems super-fast. I won’t try activitypub at the moment, maybe next week.
Content for now, no visuals, it’s still the default WordPress theme; I’ll however continue using Gutenberg block editor for site design, sighted lady will help me with styles, sizes, colors, flags, logo. For now I have what I need: my best friend in POSITIVE (pun very intended) mood ☣️ and my intermediate web dev technical skills, let me build nav bar and HIV glossary before anything else, testing new multi-language echosystem.

Before starting involving the sighted designer I want the interface to work properly.

ENGLISH https://plusbrothers.net/english/about/

ITALIANO: https://plusbrothers.net/cosa-facciamo

Detail: I had to create a solo Nginx conf file to instruct it to accept main URL, placed on /etc/nginx/conf.d/plusbrothers.net.d/; I can’t deny or hide that for this, AI helped. And precisely, the Hostinger embedded chatbot, trained with main provider base configurations.

Unfortunately YunoHost has a limitation and wants WordPress to be installed into a subdirectory such as domain dot tld slash wp.

And leaving it as it is, with its /wp/ at the end of each content, would have generated 404 errors to folks searching for old posts. I wanted to have at least the presentation page published, within July 3rd - the day where New York Times in 1981 talked of HIV for the first time, identifying it as an untreatable disease affecting 41 homosexual men.

And the weird destiny is that my best friend, and content writer for this project, was born July 3rd 1975. 6 years later AIDS come out in the USA. He’s gay, and turned poz (HIV+) in 2013 due to a cheating partner.

#selfhosting #yunohost #wordpress

@selfhosted @_elena Success! WordPress works, SSL works, now I must wait reverse proxy (for mail) DNS propagation. Then the fun begins! #selfhosting #wordpress

@selfhosted @_elena Journey with self hosting, part 2.

I’m in the second phase of the experience. Domain transferred, DNS zone editor adjusted accordingly, letsencrypt set, YunoHost running “success!” in every aspect.

In a few hours, I’ll place WordPress multisite and try my new experiments on my VPS.

PlusBrothers, poz world, the Agony Ass, and Fernando the sentient virus, will come back home.
#selfhosting #wordpress #yunohost

@khleedril @selfhosted It is 25 years I work on web, I started this self-hosting experience on my personal website, through YunoHost, which is a web-based application manager. Users say terminal knowledge is not needed, but, well, it helps a lot!
I’m not a sysadmin, can’t manage a VPS from scratch. But I do my best to make things work.

@cybervseas I have learnt how to do it through YunoHost, I will transfer the pattern to the new domain - I’ve built nothing yet, regarding interface and posts. I want to have a working infrastructure before.

@irmadlad I must find a reliable backup system which fits my accessibility needs correctly - backup is crucial, if you have some unidentified controls, information conveying just on colors, etc… you’ll be screwed

@irmadlad I’m scared to do something unrecoverable…

@irmadlad A sysadmin is someone who works hard days and nights, with configurations written by hand, and documentation all around. Working all night till things work as they want them to.
I’m not a sysadmin, I’m asking for help every moment, I’m always afraid to break everything down.

@cptbichez yeah I read that post as well, but it’s not a 502 bad gateway.

@cptbichez I can’t screenshot as I’m visually impaired. I can report things step by step

@cptbichez If it deals with a log, it’s not on install but the error appears when logging into admin on the secondary site

@cptbichez I’ll try this - although I have no idea on which log to search for.

deleted by creator

deleted by creator

deleted by creator

@dandelion I’ll check my app’s settings then. Maybe it’s something wrong in them. I’ll adjust it, if so. Thanks for warnings (when many people say there’s something wrong, it’s the case to check our setup)