Post Installation Issues

[sanjM]

I managed to get a Pod running after a few days of working it all out. SSL Certs all pass the online tests using Ubuntu 12.04, Nginx, Thin and Virtualmin. Took a few days of sifting through the information on GitHub etc.

Q1: I'm wondering why I'm not able to see the Community Stream on my profile even though it is selected to show?

Is it something to do with this section in application.yml:

## Community Spotlight
  ## The community spotlight gives new users a starting point on who
  ## could be interesting Diasporas community.
  ## --------
  ## DEPRECATED - use roles instead, see
  ## https://github.com/diaspora/diaspora/wiki/FAQ-for-Pod-Maintainers
  ## "What are roles and how do I use them?"
  ## --------
  #community_spotlight:
  #list:
  #- 'diasp...@joindiaspora.com'
  #- 'm...@example.org'

Q2. Is one supposed to see your twitter feed/tumblr feeds/facebook feeds when someone posts to the respective sites or you just have the ability to post to them but not see the feeds in your D* stream?

Q3: Has anyone a working startup script for D* running on Ubuntu 12.04 using Thin & Nginx? None I've tried via Google Search seem to work.

I'd really appreciate some help on these issues. Thx in advance.

[Raven24]

Hi!

On Monday, July 23, 2012 6:56:18 PM UTC+2, sanjM wrote:

I managed to get a Pod running after a few days of working it all out. SSL Certs all pass the online tests using Ubuntu 12.04, Nginx, Thin and Virtualmin. Took a few days of sifting through the information on GitHub etc.

Q1: I'm wondering why I'm not able to see the Community Stream on my profile even though it is selected to show?

Is it something to do with this section in application.yml:

## Community Spotlight
  ## The community spotlight gives new users a starting point on who
  ## could be interesting Diasporas community.
  ## --------
  ## DEPRECATED - use roles instead, see
  ## https://github.com/diaspora/diaspora/wiki/FAQ-for-Pod-Maintainers
  ## "What are roles and how do I use them?"
  ## --------
  #community_spotlight:
  #list:

That's probably part of the problem you're having.
As a new pod, other pods won't yet know you exist and therefore you won't receive their public communication (the private communication is addressed directly anyway).
You have to add people from other pods to your contacts to 'subscribe' to their postings and make yourself known in the pod network.

The community spotlight is actually a list of people you want every user on your pod to follow/subscribe automatically,
so you could put your account in there for administrative announcements or the suggested diasporahq account or any list of local or remote accounts posting about something of special interest.
 

Q2. Is one supposed to see your twitter feed/tumblr feeds/facebook feeds when someone posts to the respective sites or you just have the ability to post to them but not see the feeds in your D* stream?

No, you can only post to other services.
There is no magic going on in the other direction.

 

Q3: Has anyone a working startup script for D* running on Ubuntu 12.04 using Thin & Nginx? None I've tried via Google Search seem to work.

 Most distibutions provide a runlevel script for Nginx with their package management.
Thin can create one by itself by running `sudo thin install`, which requires you to provide a config file for each app you want to be served.
See http://code.macournoyer.com/thin/usage/

- Florian