Erik I

After playing with NextCloud (hosted on Heztner) earlier last week, Saturday was time for Hubzilla.

I finally got my developer workstation[0] up and running in January. During last week I also installed VirtualBox and a virtual linux server[1].

On Saturday morning I installed Hubzilla on a Ubuntu VM. I guess it took a good half hour to get it working, even with the instructions here How to Install Hubzilla on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS.

A couple of notes that might come in handy for others who install it in a home lab:

• Install LAMP Server: The default host on apache caught all the requests. I basically made Hubzilla the default.
• Configure MariaDB: The procedure to configure MariaDB didn't work for me on my fresh vm. Since this was just a lab setup I ended up disabling unix_socket plugin login using this guide MariaDB Installed Without Password Prompts for Root on Ubuntu 17.10 / 18.04
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The rest of the day I was parent-on-duty as my wife is at work and we have an upcoming birthday to prepare.

If I have to install it again I'll probably try with Debian and use the official instructions here: https://project.hubzilla.org/help/en/admin/administrator_guide#Overview

[0]: AMD FX 6-core with 8 gigs of ram and an old repurposed 500 Gb drive as OS drive : )
[1]: Running a VirtualBox VM on an old non-SSD drive is surprisingly slow so I might get a new SSD for it sooner or later.