Post A4bXP8JS07aKPwMWVk by clayogra@mstdn.social
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(DIR) Post #A4bTYZAr6J9kW3aJ6m by clayogra@mstdn.social
2021-02-24T15:46:08Z
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Hi :) Could anyone help me #interpret this #errormessage? I get it every time I try to #follow this #account here (@clayogra) from one of my accounts on friendica.feneas.org. The weird thing is, I can follow any other account on mstdn.social from friendica.feneas.org without any problems. #Thanks so much in advance!!!#mastodon #friendica #fediverse #protocol #error #help #support
(DIR) Post #A4bTbmp8o8chicxn1s by stux@mstdn.social
2021-02-24T15:47:56Z
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@clayogra Seems like a permission error for writing map/file? 😉
(DIR) Post #A4bTfZElGU9ijqkYS0 by stux@mstdn.social
2021-02-24T15:48:37Z
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@clayogra Is the storage folder writable by the server/service/user?
(DIR) Post #A4bTmR2Q9BPFKwFiMK by clayogra@mstdn.social
2021-02-24T15:49:52Z
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@stux Yes, also looked to me like that. And in general I would just have guessed, it's a general problem between friendica.feneas.org and mstdn.social. But the problem persists only for this account, which I find very weird...
(DIR) Post #A4bTqBDmtYLhRNM4Ho by clayogra@mstdn.social
2021-02-24T15:50:30Z
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@stux I really don't know tbh... I know far too little about the way friendica works :/
(DIR) Post #A4bUEAuPhyzlQBjbfs by stux@mstdn.social
2021-02-24T15:54:53Z
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@clayogra No worries mate 🤗 It seems the map: /var/www/html/storage is not writable, could you check what permission it has? And sub maps
(DIR) Post #A4bVBl9MblrcuH8hpg by clayogra@mstdn.social
2021-02-24T16:05:39Z
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@stux Hm, at least I can't access it (I'm a normal user there, not running the instance)... or is there another way to check that? Thanks so much!!! ❤️
(DIR) Post #A4bVhemjoB3gQtlZBI by clayogra@mstdn.social
2021-02-24T16:07:55Z
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(1/2) Just to maybe specify it a little more. These two screenshots show what happens if I try to follow clayogra@mstdn.social from my friendica.feneas.org account:
(DIR) Post #A4bVhfLphh8CBkBasq by clayogra@mstdn.social
2021-02-24T16:09:18Z
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(2/2) And these two screenshots show what happens when I try to follow any other account from my friendica.feneas.org account, which is working fine (in this example @stux ):
(DIR) Post #A4bVhfsnj7VDpzbvGq by stux@mstdn.social
2021-02-24T16:11:24Z
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@clayogra Hmm.. This is your server? And what happens if you follow another ‘external user’?
(DIR) Post #A4bVtsZqM78OgPYyJs by clayogra@mstdn.social
2021-02-24T16:13:38Z
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@stux No, I only signed up there... I can follow anyone without problems. Only not clayogra@mstdn.social... It would be weird if I got blocked there, as I didn't interact with friendica.feneas.org yet except trying to follow my own account...
(DIR) Post #A4bW2nz8nWx930eU1g by stux@mstdn.social
2021-02-24T16:15:14Z
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@clayogra Hm... Is there's an about page for friendica.feneas.org? I can only see the login page haha! It should notice all blocked instances but I cannot think of a reason
(DIR) Post #A4bWBXW9ORoIa3Fz5U by stux@mstdn.social
2021-02-24T16:16:48Z
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@clayogra Found it!https://friendica.feneas.org/friendica No blocks.. also not with us :blobcatgiggle: Just checked
(DIR) Post #A4bWPoQ3Llmh3QD6x6 by clayogra@mstdn.social
2021-02-24T16:19:24Z
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@stux There is https://friendica.feneas.org/friendica, but it's very... small... I signed up on that instance because it offers all possible plugins, and allows for the creation of multiple profiles with only 1 account. It's also one of the largest friendica instances. But it now seems to me, that it's not really being moderated or anything, which I find strange, and even stranger though, that interactions isn't working with only one account on mstdn.social, while otherwise totally fine 😅
(DIR) Post #A4bWTEQP7O22Zu0Nvs by yuki@lgbt.io
2021-02-24T16:18:40Z
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@clayograCheck out under which user the friendica program is running; you need to grant that user write access permissions to that the directory mentioned in your error.@stux
(DIR) Post #A4bWTErhTtrlwYmBTk by stux@mstdn.social
2021-02-24T16:19:58Z
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@yuki @clayogra Yip! /var/www/html/storage needs chmod -R 775 or some cases 777 also chown to server user (most cases www-data)
(DIR) Post #A4bWYkyxUwsn06noH2 by clayogra@mstdn.social
2021-02-24T16:21:01Z
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@stux @yuki So I guess I need to somehow bring that message through to that instance's admin, right?
(DIR) Post #A4bWbyZhPxVw1gWSfY by stux@mstdn.social
2021-02-24T16:21:32Z
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@clayogra @yuki I'm afraid so.. It's for sure something local on that server that prevents new remote files from being downloaded and written away
(DIR) Post #A4bWdDiYbPLrHSG7fM by stux@mstdn.social
2021-02-24T16:21:43Z
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@clayogra @yuki Aka connection error or whatever :sad_dog:
(DIR) Post #A4bWfUAkOZ5QtQWc2i by yuki@lgbt.io
2021-02-24T16:21:59Z
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@stuxGiven that friendica is a php system, you'd want to check out the user running Apache (or whatever webserver is running friendica)@clayogra
(DIR) Post #A4bWpVXaA9L824z7Ls by stux@mstdn.social
2021-02-24T16:24:01Z
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@yuki @clayogra Indeed! I still wonder if there's a way to give the webserver read/write permission over a directory while working on the files with a user account :thinktink: Sometimes I use $USER:www-data and other times www-data:www-data and rewrite for edits and back but that's a pain xD
(DIR) Post #A4bWzhUaa6T7zoReQi by yuki@lgbt.io
2021-02-24T16:24:42Z
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@clayograExactly. Rather than a friendica problem, it's a general Unix problem and the sysadmin has to fix it.(Tl;dr: the person who installed and configured friendica did it wrong 😋 )@stux
(DIR) Post #A4bWzhxeq1ilRy2rjs by stux@mstdn.social
2021-02-24T16:25:51Z
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@yuki :blobcatgiggle: yess! Gotta be honest, a while back Friendica was harder to install the right way than the plain Mastodon or Pleroma setup :bloblaugh: @clayogra
(DIR) Post #A4bX8zmZwr6lKPI9RI by clayogra@mstdn.social
2021-02-24T16:26:52Z
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@stux @yuki @bastian Thank you so much all of you for your answers and support!!! ❤️ I am gonna try reaching the admin and resolving it that way. Just thought maybe there is some other user-side-error that could be circumvented. Thanks for the patience! 🙂
(DIR) Post #A4bX90AgVEOGXAZP0q by stux@mstdn.social
2021-02-24T16:27:31Z
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@clayogra @yuki @bastian Very welcome ❤️ Sorry I missed it before..! Took a while :blobcatgiggle: Next time just send me a bunch of DM's so I see it haha! 😇
(DIR) Post #A4bXP8JS07aKPwMWVk by clayogra@mstdn.social
2021-02-24T16:30:28Z
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@stux Eeey, no worries at all!! I am so thankful for your great voluntary work and appreciate so much what you are doing!! Thanks again!! 😊 @yuki @bastian
(DIR) Post #A4bXdgkEmQxrGDpeUa by yuki@lgbt.io
2021-02-24T16:33:07Z
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@stuxThat's feasible, and not very complicated. a) You create a group for the user, e.g. group "johnny" for the user Johnny. Or maybe a different group, say, "johnnyshared"b) you give that group write access permissions to that directory and subdirectories. Usually you do this by changing the owner group (only a group can own a directory, but with ACL you can give access to more groups. It's definitely more complicated, tho).c) You add user "web" (or whatever user Apache's running from) to the group "johnnyshared". Alternatively: If you decided NOT to change the owner group to that directory, you just add the web user to the directory's current group.(You find out which group owns the directory by doing ls -l.)Ta-da! The web process can now read and write Johnny's shared files.@clayogra