(sorry, initially sent this to the wnpp ticket)
Hi,
thanks a lot for packaging friendica! I was eager to try it out, so I got the
source package and built it on a Debian stable box (with some necessary jquery
packages from backports).
Here's some feedback that might be used to improve the package:
- installation of the package went smooth, it asked for the db details, etc.
- after that finished, I found a /etc/apache2/conf.d/friendica.conf, which I
replaced with the apache2.subdomain.conf from the doc examples directory
- had to remove a space in the "order allow, deny" option (between allow and
deny)
- the web interface was available, but it showed the installer (is that
supposed to happen?)
- installer complained about /usr/share/friendica/.htaccess not being
available and not creatable either, so I created the file and made it writable
- instead of continuing with the installer, I copied
/etc/friendica/htconfig.php to /usr/share/friendica/.htconfig.php
- however then apache always segfaulted
- I manually created the database with /usr/share/friendica/database.sql and
finally got friendica up and running
However, some more fixes were needed:
- uploading a profile picture only resulted in a black image, because some
javascripts were not found. I had to create a symlink
/usr/share/friendica/cropper/lib/prototype.js to the system installed
prototype.js, then remove the directory
/usr/share/friendica/library/cropper/lib directory and finally create a symlink
/usr/share/friendica/library/cropper/lib to /usr/share/friendica/cropper/lib
I still found a warning about a type problem in the error log about the profile
photo, so I adjusted /usr/share/friendica/mod/profile_photo.php lines 56-59 to
cast the POST variables to integer values:
$srcX = (int) $_POST['xstart'];
$srcY = (int) $_POST['ystart'];
$srcW = (int) $_POST['xfinal'] - $srcX;
$srcH = (int) $_POST['yfinal'] - $srcY;
The javascript console still showed an error in
/usr/share/friendica/js/main.js; all accesses to $.someJQuery function or
object didn't work. I don't really understand what's going in there (some
undesired mangling of '$.'?), but I changed all occurrences of '$.' to
'jQuery.' in js/main.js, so that it looks like this
$(function() {
jQuery.ajaxSetup({cache: false});
[,,,]
Then online help didn't work at all (internal server error), I had to remove
the symlink /usr/share/friendica/library/markdown.php and replace it with the
PHP Markdown Extra "markdown.php" from http://littoral.michelf.ca/code/php-
markdown/php-markdown-extra-1.2.6.zip
Finally, everything seems to work :-)
HTH,
Carsten
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