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= Goal =

I want to run a private diaspora pod to learn what it can do. 
Maybe then I suggest it to family to use it as communication hub.

= Architecture =

I have apache running on an opensuse 13.1 server and a mysql database on a NAS.
If the NAS db should turn out to be too slow, it may move to the faster webserver later.
Obviously I'll try to use these instead of the recommended nginx/postgres combination.

= Install Prerequisites =

I used the list provided [https://wiki.diasporafoundation.org/Installation/openSUSE/13?db=mariadb&mode=production|by diasporafoundation]]:
 sudo zypper install ruby-devel rubygem-bundler make automake gcc gcc-c++ git libcurl-devel ImageMagick ImageMagick-extra libtool bison libtool patch libxml2-devel libxslt-devel libffi-devel libyaml-devel nodejs

= Database =

While the recomended setup via CLI should work, I used the synonym phpMyAdmin setup for convenience

* Activate phpMyAdmin on the NAS
* Login as root and create a new user with database.

= Webserver =

Since the webserver is already running and happily serving pages with ssl installing apache with ssl and firewall is not part of this howto

* Install ruby passenger
 sudo zypper install rubygem-passenger-apache2
* Activate passenger by adding this to the APACHE_MODULES line in /etc/sysconfig/apache2
 APACHE_MODULES="... passenger"
* Restart Apache and look at output. Should contain lines like this now:
 CGroup: /system.slice/apache2.service
 ...
  |-30938 PassengerWatchdog
  |-30941 PassengerHelperAgent
  |-30947 PassengerLoggingAgent

= Redis =

Redis is a key-value database. Install like this
 sudo zypper install redis
 sudo cp /etc/redis/default.conf.example /etc/redis/default.conf
 sudo vi /etc/redis/default.conf
 sudo chown redis /etc/redis/default.conf
 sudo /usr/sbin/rcredis restart

= Install Diaspora =

== Clone Repo and Prepare Config ==
 su - diaspora
 git clone -b master git://github.com/diaspora/diaspora.git
 cd diaspora

 cp config/database.yml.example config/database.yml
 cp config/diaspora.yml.example config/diaspora.yml

Edit the obvious things (db, user, pw, url, certs) and collation to utf8 / utf8_bin (utf8mb4 not known)

Warning: while user is diaspora, database used by script is disaspora_production

== Rails Dependencies ==

 RAILS_ENV=production DB=mysql  bin/bundle install --without test development

== Configure Apache (1st try) ==

/etc/apache2/conf.d/diaspora.conf

  Alias /dia "/home/diaspora/diaspora/public/"
 
  <Directory "/home/diaspora/diaspora/public/">
    Options -MultiViews
    AllowOverride None
    <IfModule mod_authz_core.c>
      # Apache 2.4
      Require all granted
      Order allow,deny
      Allow from 127.0.0.1
      Allow from 192.168.0.0/16
      Allow from 10.0.0.0/8
      Allow from ::1
    </IfModule>
 
    <IfModule !mod_authz_core.c>
      # Apache 2.2
      Order allow,deny
      Allow from 127.0.0.1
      Allow from 192.168.0.0/16
      Allow from 10.0.0.0/8
    </IfModule>
  </Directory>