5 StatusNet 0.9.1 ("Everybody Hurts")
8 This is the README file for StatusNet, the Open Source microblogging
9 platform. It includes installation instructions, descriptions of
10 options you can set, warnings, tips, and general info for
11 administrators. Information on using StatusNet can be found in the
12 "doc" subdirectory or in the "help" section on-line.
17 StatusNet is a Free and Open Source microblogging platform. It helps
18 people in a community, company or group to exchange short (140
19 characters, by default) messages over the Web. Users can choose which
20 people to "follow" and receive only their friends' or colleagues'
21 status messages. It provides a similar service to sites like Twitter,
22 Google Buzz, or Yammer.
24 With a little work, status messages can be sent to mobile phones,
25 instant messenger programs (GTalk/Jabber), and specially-designed
26 desktop clients that support the Twitter API.
28 StatusNet supports an open standard called OStatus
29 <http://ostatus.org/> that lets users in different networks follow
30 each other. It enables a distributed social network spread all across
33 StatusNet was originally developed for the Open Software Service,
34 Identi.ca <http://identi.ca/>. It is shared with you in hope that you
35 too make an Open Software Service available to your users. To learn
36 more, please see the Open Software Service Definition 1.1:
38 http://www.opendefinition.org/ossd
40 StatusNet, Inc. <http://status.net/> also offers this software as a
41 Web service, requiring no installation on your part. The software run
42 on status.net is identical to the software available for download, so
43 you can move back and forth between a hosted version or a version
44 installed on your own servers.
49 This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
50 it under the terms of the GNU Affero General Public License as
51 published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the
52 License, or (at your option) any later version.
54 This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
55 WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
56 MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU
57 Affero General Public License for more details.
59 You should have received a copy of the GNU Affero General Public
60 License along with this program, in the file "COPYING". If not, see
61 <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
63 IMPORTANT NOTE: The GNU Affero General Public License (AGPL) has
64 *different requirements* from the "regular" GPL. In particular, if
65 you make modifications to the StatusNet source code on your server,
66 you *MUST MAKE AVAILABLE* the modified version of the source code
67 to your users under the same license. This is a legal requirement
68 of using the software, and if you do not wish to share your
69 modifications, *YOU MAY NOT INSTALL STATUSNET*.
71 Additional library software has been made available in the 'extlib'
72 directory. All of it is Free Software and can be distributed under
73 liberal terms, but those terms may differ in detail from the AGPL's
74 particulars. See each package's license file in the extlib directory
80 This is a minor bug and feature release since version 0.9.0 released 4
83 Because of fixes to OStatus bugs, it is highly recommended that all
84 public sites upgrade to the new version immediately.
86 Notable changes this version:
88 - Twitter bridge truncates and links back to original for long
90 - Changed "Home" link in main menu to "Personal".
91 - A new memcached plugin (using pecl/memcached versus pecl/memcache)
92 - Opt-in subscription to update@status.net
93 - Script to run commands on behalf of a user.
94 - Better Web UI for long notices.
95 - A plugin to open external links in their own window or tab
96 - Fixes to Salmon protocol for compatibility with other systems.
97 - Updates to latest ActivityStreams definition.
98 - Twitpic-compatible API for image upload.
99 - Background deletion of user accounts.
100 - Better support for HTTP basic authentication with CGI/FastCGI
101 - Better discovery on OStatus
102 - Support for PuSH-enabled RSS 2.0 feeds
104 - OpenID blacklist/whitelist
107 A full changelog is available at http://status.net/wiki/StatusNet_0.9.1.
112 The following software packages are *required* for this software to
115 - PHP 5.2.3+. It may be possible to run this software on earlier
116 versions of PHP, but many of the functions used are only available
117 in PHP 5.2 or above. 5.2.6 or later is needed for XMPP background
118 daemons on 64-bit platforms. PHP 5.3.x should work but is known
119 to cause some failures for OpenID.
120 - MySQL 5.x. The StatusNet database is stored, by default, in a MySQL
121 server. It has been primarily tested on 5.x servers, although it may
122 be possible to install on earlier (or later!) versions. The server
123 *must* support the MyISAM storage engine -- the default for most
124 MySQL servers -- *and* the InnoDB storage engine.
125 - A Web server. Preferably, you should have Apache 2.2.x with the
126 mod_rewrite extension installed and enabled.
128 Your PHP installation must include the following PHP extensions:
130 - Curl. This is for fetching files by HTTP.
131 - XMLWriter. This is for formatting XML and HTML output.
132 - MySQL. For accessing the database.
133 - GD. For scaling down avatar images.
134 - mbstring. For handling Unicode (UTF-8) encoded strings.
135 - gettext. For multiple languages. Default on many PHP installs.
137 For some functionality, you will also need the following extensions:
139 - Memcache. A client for the memcached server, which caches database
140 information in volatile memory. This is important for adequate
141 performance on high-traffic sites. You will also need a memcached
142 server to store the data in.
143 - Mailparse. Efficient parsing of email requires this extension.
144 Submission by email or SMS-over-email uses this extension.
145 - Sphinx Search. A client for the sphinx server, an alternative
146 to MySQL or Postgresql fulltext search. You will also need a
147 Sphinx server to serve the search queries.
148 - bcmath or gmp. For Salmon signatures (part of OStatus). Needed
149 if you have OStatus configured.
151 You will almost definitely get 2-3 times better performance from your
152 site if you install a PHP bytecode cache/accelerator. Some well-known
153 examples are: eaccelerator, Turck mmcache, xcache, apc. Zend Optimizer
154 is a proprietary accelerator installed on some hosting sites.
159 A number of external PHP libraries are used to provide basic
160 functionality and optional functionality for your system. For your
161 convenience, they are available in the "extlib" directory of this
162 package, and you do not have to download and install them. However,
163 you may want to keep them up-to-date with the latest upstream version,
164 and the URLs are listed here for your convenience.
166 - DB_DataObject http://pear.php.net/package/DB_DataObject
167 - Validate http://pear.php.net/package/Validate
168 - OpenID from OpenIDEnabled (not the PEAR version!). We decided
169 to use the openidenabled.com version since it's more widely
170 implemented, and seems to be better supported.
171 http://openidenabled.com/php-openid/
172 - PEAR DB. Although this is an older data access system (new
173 packages should probably use PHP DBO), the OpenID libraries
174 depend on PEAR DB so we use it here, too. DB_DataObject can
175 also use PEAR MDB2, which may give you better performance
176 but won't work with OpenID.
177 http://pear.php.net/package/DB
178 - OAuth.php from http://oauth.googlecode.com/svn/code/php/
179 - markdown.php from http://michelf.com/projects/php-markdown/
180 - PEAR Mail, for sending out mail notifications
181 http://pear.php.net/package/Mail
182 - PEAR Net_SMTP, if you use the SMTP factory for notifications
183 http://pear.php.net/package/Net_SMTP
184 - PEAR Net_Socket, if you use the SMTP factory for notifications
185 http://pear.php.net/package/Net_Socket
186 - XMPPHP, the follow-up to Class.Jabber.php. Probably the best XMPP
187 library available for PHP. http://xmpphp.googlecode.com/. Note that
188 as of this writing the version of this library that is available in
189 the extlib directory is *significantly different* from the upstream
190 version (patches have been submitted). Upgrading to the upstream
191 version may render your StatusNet site unable to send or receive XMPP
193 - Facebook library. Used for the Facebook application.
194 - PEAR Services_oEmbed. Used for some multimedia integration.
195 - PEAR HTTP_Request is an oEmbed dependency.
196 - PEAR Validate is an oEmbed dependency.
197 - PEAR Net_URL2 is an oEmbed dependency.
198 - Console_GetOpt for parsing command-line options.
199 - libomb. a library for implementing OpenMicroBlogging 0.1, the
200 predecessor to OStatus.
201 - HTTP_Request2, a library for making HTTP requests.
203 A design goal of StatusNet is that the basic Web functionality should
204 work on even the most restrictive commercial hosting services.
205 However, additional functionality, such as receiving messages by
206 Jabber/GTalk, require that you be able to run long-running processes
207 on your account. In addition, posting by email or from SMS require
208 that you be able to install a mail filter in your mail server.
213 Installing the basic StatusNet Web component is relatively easy,
214 especially if you've previously installed PHP/MySQL packages.
216 1. Unpack the tarball you downloaded on your Web server. Usually a
217 command like this will work:
219 tar zxf statusnet-0.9.1.tar.gz
221 ...which will make a statusnet-0.9.1 subdirectory in your current
222 directory. (If you don't have shell access on your Web server, you
223 may have to unpack the tarball on your local computer and FTP the
224 files to the server.)
226 2. Move the tarball to a directory of your choosing in your Web root
227 directory. Usually something like this will work:
229 mv statusnet-0.9.1 /var/www/statusnet
231 This will make your StatusNet instance available in the statusnet path of
232 your server, like "http://example.net/statusnet". "microblog" or
233 "statusnet" might also be good path names. If you know how to
234 configure virtual hosts on your web server, you can try setting up
235 "http://micro.example.net/" or the like.
237 3. Make your target directory writeable by the Web server.
239 chmod a+w /var/www/statusnet/
241 On some systems, this will probably work:
243 chgrp www-data /var/www/statusnet/
244 chmod g+w /var/www/statusnet/
246 If your Web server runs as another user besides "www-data", try
247 that user's default group instead. As a last resort, you can create
248 a new group like "statusnet" and add the Web server's user to the group.
250 4. You should also take this moment to make your avatar, background, and
251 file subdirectories writeable by the Web server. An insecure way to do
254 chmod a+w /var/www/statusnet/avatar
255 chmod a+w /var/www/statusnet/background
256 chmod a+w /var/www/statusnet/file
258 You can also make the avatar, background, and file directories
259 writeable by the Web server group, as noted above.
261 5. Create a database to hold your microblog data. Something like this
264 mysqladmin -u "username" --password="password" create statusnet
266 Note that StatusNet must have its own database; you can't share the
267 database with another program. You can name it whatever you want,
270 (If you don't have shell access to your server, you may need to use
271 a tool like PHPAdmin to create a database. Check your hosting
272 service's documentation for how to create a new MySQL database.)
274 6. Create a new database account that StatusNet will use to access the
275 database. If you have shell access, this will probably work from the
278 GRANT ALL on statusnet.*
279 TO 'statusnetuser'@'localhost'
280 IDENTIFIED BY 'statusnetpassword';
282 You should change 'statusnetuser' and 'statusnetpassword' to your preferred new
283 username and password. You may want to test logging in to MySQL as
286 7. In a browser, navigate to the StatusNet install script; something like:
288 http://yourserver.example.com/statusnet/install.php
290 Enter the database connection information and your site name. The
291 install program will configure your site and install the initial,
292 almost-empty database.
294 8. You should now be able to navigate to your microblog's main directory
295 and see the "Public Timeline", which will be empty. If not, magic
296 has happened! You can now register a new user, post some notices,
297 edit your profile, etc. However, you may want to wait to do that stuff
298 if you think you can set up "fancy URLs" (see below), since some
299 URLs are stored in the database.
304 By default, StatusNet will use URLs that include the main PHP program's
305 name in them. For example, a user's home profile might be
308 http://example.org/statusnet/index.php/statusnet/fred
310 On certain systems that don't support this kind of syntax, they'll
313 http://example.org/statusnet/index.php?p=statusnet/fred
315 It's possible to configure the software so it looks like this instead:
317 http://example.org/statusnet/fred
319 These "fancy URLs" are more readable and memorable for users. To use
320 fancy URLs, you must either have Apache 2.x with .htaccess enabled and
321 mod_rewrite enabled, -OR- know how to configure "url redirection" in
324 1. Copy the htaccess.sample file to .htaccess in your StatusNet
325 directory. Note: if you have control of your server's httpd.conf or
326 similar configuration files, it can greatly improve performance to
327 import the .htaccess file into your conf file instead. If you're
328 not sure how to do it, you may save yourself a lot of headache by
329 just leaving the .htaccess file.
331 2. Change the "RewriteBase" in the new .htaccess file to be the URL path
332 to your StatusNet installation on your server. Typically this will
333 be the path to your StatusNet directory relative to your Web root.
335 3. Add or uncomment or change a line in your config.php file so it says:
337 $config['site']['fancy'] = true;
339 You should now be able to navigate to a "fancy" URL on your server,
342 http://example.net/statusnet/main/register
344 If you changed your HTTP server configuration, you may need to restart
347 If it doesn't work, double-check that AllowOverride for the StatusNet
348 directory is 'All' in your Apache configuration file. This is usually
349 /etc/httpd.conf, /etc/apache/httpd.conf, or (on Debian and Ubuntu)
350 /etc/apache2/sites-available/default. See the Apache documentation for
351 .htaccess files for more details:
353 http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/howto/htaccess.html
355 Also, check that mod_rewrite is installed and enabled:
357 http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/mod/mod_rewrite.html
362 To use a Sphinx server to search users and notices, you'll need to
363 enable the SphinxSearch plugin. Add to your config.php:
365 addPlugin('SphinxSearch');
366 $config['sphinx']['server'] = 'searchhost.local';
368 You also need to install, compile and enable the sphinx pecl extension for
369 php on the client side, which itself depends on the sphinx development files.
371 See plugins/SphinxSearch/README for more details and server setup.
376 StatusNet supports a cheap-and-dirty system for sending update messages
377 to mobile phones and for receiving updates from the mobile. Instead of
378 sending through the SMS network itself, which is costly and requires
379 buy-in from the wireless carriers, it simply piggybacks on the email
380 gateways that many carriers provide to their customers. So, SMS
381 configuration is essentially email configuration.
383 Each user sends to a made-up email address, which they keep a secret.
384 Incoming email that is "From" the user's SMS email address, and "To"
385 the users' secret email address on the site's domain, will be
386 converted to a notice and stored in the DB.
388 For this to work, there *must* be a domain or sub-domain for which all
389 (or most) incoming email can pass through the incoming mail filter.
391 1. Run the SQL script carrier.sql in your StatusNet database. This will
394 mysql -u "statusnetuser" --password="statusnetpassword" statusnet < db/carrier.sql
396 This will populate your database with a list of wireless carriers
397 that support email SMS gateways.
399 2. Make sure the maildaemon.php file is executable:
401 chmod +x scripts/maildaemon.php
403 Note that "daemon" is kind of a misnomer here; the script is more
404 of a filter than a daemon.
406 2. Edit /etc/aliases on your mail server and add the following line:
408 *: /path/to/statusnet/scripts/maildaemon.php
410 3. Run whatever code you need to to update your aliases database. For
411 many mail servers (Postfix, Exim, Sendmail), this should work:
415 You may need to restart your mail server for the new database to
418 4. Set the following in your config.php file:
420 $config['mail']['domain'] = 'yourdomain.example.net';
422 At this point, post-by-email and post-by-SMS-gateway should work. Note
423 that if your mail server is on a different computer from your email
424 server, you'll need to have a full installation of StatusNet, a working
425 config.php, and access to the StatusNet database from the mail server.
430 XMPP (eXtended Message and Presence Protocol, <http://xmpp.org/>) is the
431 instant-messenger protocol that drives Jabber and GTalk IM. You can
432 distribute messages via XMPP using the system below; however, you
433 need to run the XMPP incoming daemon to allow incoming messages as
436 1. You may want to strongly consider setting up your own XMPP server.
437 Ejabberd, OpenFire, and JabberD are all Open Source servers.
438 Jabber, Inc. provides a high-performance commercial server.
440 2. You must register a Jabber ID (JID) with your new server. It helps
441 to choose a name like "update@example.com" or "notice" or something
442 similar. Alternately, your "update JID" can be registered on a
443 publicly-available XMPP service, like jabber.org or GTalk.
445 StatusNet will not register the JID with your chosen XMPP server;
446 you need to do this manually, with an XMPP client like Gajim,
447 Telepathy, or Pidgin.im.
449 3. Configure your site's XMPP variables, as described below in the
450 configuration section.
452 On a default installation, your site can broadcast messages using
453 XMPP. Users won't be able to post messages using XMPP unless you've
454 got the XMPP daemon running. See 'Queues and daemons' below for how
455 to set that up. Also, once you have a sizable number of users, sending
456 a lot of SMS, OMB, and XMPP messages whenever someone posts a message
457 can really slow down your site; it may cause posting to timeout.
459 NOTE: stream_select(), a crucial function for network programming, is
460 broken on PHP 5.2.x less than 5.2.6 on amd64-based servers. We don't
461 work around this bug in StatusNet; current recommendation is to move
462 off of amd64 to another server.
467 You can send *all* messages from your microblogging site to a
468 third-party service using XMPP. This can be useful for providing
469 search, indexing, bridging, or other cool services.
471 To configure a downstream site to receive your public stream, add
472 their "JID" (Jabber ID) to your config.php as follows:
474 $config['xmpp']['public'][] = 'downstream@example.net';
476 (Don't miss those square brackets at the end.) Note that your XMPP
477 broadcasting must be configured as mentioned above. Although you can
478 send out messages at "Web time", high-volume sites should strongly
479 consider setting up queues and daemons.
484 Some activities that StatusNet needs to do, like broadcast OStatus, SMS,
485 and XMPP messages, can be 'queued' and done by off-line bots instead.
486 For this to work, you must be able to run long-running offline
487 processes, either on your main Web server or on another server you
488 control. (Your other server will still need all the above
489 prerequisites, with the exception of Apache.) Installing on a separate
490 server is probably a good idea for high-volume sites.
492 1. You'll need the "CLI" (command-line interface) version of PHP
493 installed on whatever server you use.
495 2. If you're using a separate server for queues, install StatusNet
496 somewhere on the server. You don't need to worry about the
497 .htaccess file, but make sure that your config.php file is close
498 to, or identical to, your Web server's version.
500 3. In your config.php files (both the Web server and the queues
501 server!), set the following variable:
503 $config['queue']['enabled'] = true;
505 You may also want to look at the 'daemon' section of this file for
506 more daemon options. Note that if you set the 'user' and/or 'group'
507 options, you'll need to create that user and/or group by hand.
508 They're not created automatically.
510 4. On the queues server, run the command scripts/startdaemons.sh.
512 This will run the queue handlers:
514 * queuedaemon.php - polls for queued items for inbox processing and
515 pushing out to OStatus, SMS, XMPP, etc.
516 * xmppdaemon.php - listens for new XMPP messages from users and stores
517 them as notices in the database; also pulls queued XMPP output from
518 queuedaemon.php to push out to clients.
520 These two daemons will automatically restart in most cases of failure
521 including memory leaks (if a memory_limit is set), but may still die
522 or behave oddly if they lose connections to the XMPP or queue servers.
524 Additional daemons may be also started by this script for certain
525 plugins, such as the Twitter bridge.
527 It may be a good idea to use a daemon-monitoring service, like 'monit',
528 to check their status and keep them running.
530 All the daemons write their process IDs (pids) to /var/run/ by
531 default. This can be useful for starting, stopping, and monitoring the
534 Since version 0.8.0, it's now possible to use a STOMP server instead of
535 our kind of hacky home-grown DB-based queue solution. This is strongly
536 recommended for best response time, especially when using XMPP.
538 See the "queues" config section below for how to configure to use STOMP.
539 As of this writing, the software has been tested with ActiveMQ 5.3.
544 There are two themes shipped with this version of StatusNet: "identica",
545 which is what the Identi.ca site uses, and "default", which is a good
546 basis for other sites.
548 As of right now, your ability to change the theme is site-wide; users
549 can't choose their own theme. Additionally, the only thing you can
550 change in the theme is CSS stylesheets and some image files; you can't
551 change the HTML output, like adding or removing menu items.
553 You can choose a theme using the $config['site']['theme'] element in
554 the config.php file. See below for details.
556 You can add your own theme by making a sub-directory of the 'theme'
557 subdirectory with the name of your theme. Each theme can have the
560 display.css: a CSS2 file for "default" styling for all browsers.
561 ie6.css: a CSS2 file for override styling for fixing up Internet
563 ie7.css: a CSS2 file for override styling for fixing up Internet
565 logo.png: a logo image for the site.
566 default-avatar-profile.png: a 96x96 pixel image to use as the avatar for
567 users who don't upload their own.
568 default-avatar-stream.png: Ditto, but 48x48. For streams of notices.
569 default-avatar-mini.png: Ditto ditto, but 24x24. For subscriptions
570 listing on profile pages.
572 You may want to start by copying the files from the default theme to
575 NOTE: the HTML generated by StatusNet changed *radically* between
576 version 0.6.x and 0.7.x. Older themes will need signification
577 modification to use the new output format.
582 Translations in StatusNet use the gettext system <http://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/>.
583 Theoretically, you can add your own sub-directory to the locale/
584 subdirectory to add a new language to your system. You'll need to
585 compile the ".po" files into ".mo" files, however.
587 Contributions of translation information to StatusNet are very easy:
588 you can use the Web interface at TranslateWiki.net to add one
589 or a few or lots of new translations -- or even new languages. You can
590 also download more up-to-date .po files there, if you so desire.
592 For info on helping with translations, see http://status.net/wiki/Translations
597 There is no built-in system for doing backups in StatusNet. You can make
598 backups of a working StatusNet system by backing up the database and
599 the Web directory. To backup the database use mysqldump <http://ur1.ca/7xo>
600 and to backup the Web directory, try tar.
605 The administrator can set the "private" flag for a site so that it's
606 not visible to non-logged-in users. This might be useful for
607 workgroups who want to share a microblogging site for project
608 management, but host it on a public server.
610 Total privacy is not guaranteed or ensured. Also, privacy is
611 all-or-nothing for a site; you can't have some accounts or notices
612 private, and others public. The interaction of private sites
613 with OStatus is undefined.
615 Access to file attachments can also be restricted to logged-in users only.
616 1. Add a directory outside the web root where your file uploads will be
617 stored. Usually a command like this will work:
619 mkdir /var/www/statusnet-files
621 2. Make the file uploads directory writeable by the web server. An
622 insecure way to do this is:
624 chmod a+x /var/www/statusnet-files
626 3. Tell StatusNet to use this directory for file uploads. Add a line
627 like this to your config.php:
629 $config['attachments']['dir'] = '/var/www/statusnet-files';
634 IMPORTANT NOTE: StatusNet 0.7.4 introduced a fix for some
635 incorrectly-stored international characters ("UTF-8"). For new
636 installations, it will now store non-ASCII characters correctly.
637 However, older installations will have the incorrect storage, and will
638 consequently show up "wrong" in browsers. See below for how to deal
641 If you've been using StatusNet 0.7, 0.6, 0.5 or lower, or if you've
642 been tracking the "git" version of the software, you will probably
643 want to upgrade and keep your existing data. There is no automated
644 upgrade procedure in StatusNet 0.9.1. Try these step-by-step
645 instructions; read to the end first before trying them.
647 0. Download StatusNet and set up all the prerequisites as if you were
649 1. Make backups of both your database and your Web directory. UNDER NO
650 CIRCUMSTANCES should you try to do an upgrade without a known-good
651 backup. You have been warned.
652 2. Shut down Web access to your site, either by turning off your Web
653 server or by redirecting all pages to a "sorry, under maintenance"
655 3. Shut down XMPP access to your site, typically by shutting down the
656 xmppdaemon.php process and all other daemons that you're running.
657 If you've got "monit" or "cron" automatically restarting your
658 daemons, make sure to turn that off, too.
659 4. Shut down SMS and email access to your site. The easy way to do
660 this is to comment out the line piping incoming email to your
661 maildaemon.php file, and running something like "newaliases".
662 5. Once all writing processes to your site are turned off, make a
663 final backup of the Web directory and database.
664 6. Move your StatusNet directory to a backup spot, like "statusnet.bak".
665 7. Unpack your StatusNet 0.9.1 tarball and move it to "statusnet" or
666 wherever your code used to be.
667 8. Copy the config.php file and avatar directory from your old
668 directory to your new directory.
669 9. Copy htaccess.sample to .htaccess in the new directory. Change the
670 RewriteBase to use the correct path.
671 10. Rebuild the database. (You can safely skip this step and go to #12
672 if you're upgrading from another 0.9.x version).
674 NOTE: this step is destructive and cannot be
675 reversed. YOU CAN EASILY DESTROY YOUR SITE WITH THIS STEP. Don't
676 do it without a known-good backup!
678 If your database is at version 0.8.0 or above, you can run a
679 special upgrade script:
681 mysql -u<rootuser> -p<rootpassword> <database> db/08to09.sql
683 Otherwise, go to your StatusNet directory and AFTER YOU MAKE A
684 BACKUP run the rebuilddb.sh script like this:
686 ./scripts/rebuilddb.sh rootuser rootpassword database db/statusnet.sql
688 Here, rootuser and rootpassword are the username and password for a
689 user who can drop and create databases as well as tables; typically
690 that's _not_ the user StatusNet runs as. Note that rebuilddb.sh drops
691 your database and rebuilds it; if there is an error you have no
692 database. Make sure you have a backup.
693 For PostgreSQL databases there is an equivalent, rebuilddb_psql.sh,
694 which operates slightly differently. Read the documentation in that
695 script before running it.
696 11. Use mysql or psql client to log into your database and make sure that
697 the notice, user, profile, subscription etc. tables are non-empty.
698 12. Turn back on the Web server, and check that things still work.
699 13. Turn back on XMPP bots and email maildaemon. Note that the XMPP
700 bots have changed since version 0.5; see above for details.
702 If you're upgrading from very old versions, you may want to look at
703 the fixup_* scripts in the scripts directories. These will store some
704 precooked data in the DB. All upgraders should check out the inboxes
707 NOTE: the database definition file, laconica.ini, has been renamed to
708 statusnet.ini (since this is the recommended database name). If you
709 have a line in your config.php pointing to the old name, you'll need
715 Notice inboxes are now required. If you don't have inboxes enabled,
716 StatusNet will no longer run.
721 StatusNet 0.7.4 introduced a fix for some incorrectly-stored
722 international characters ("UTF-8"). This fix is not
723 backwards-compatible; installations from before 0.7.4 will show
724 non-ASCII characters of old notices incorrectly. This section explains
727 0. You can disable the new behaviour by setting the 'db''utf8' config
728 option to "false". You should only do this until you're ready to
729 convert your DB to the new format.
730 1. When you're ready to convert, you can run the fixup_utf8.php script
731 in the scripts/ subdirectory. If you've had the "new behaviour"
732 enabled (probably a good idea), you can give the ID of the first
733 "new" notice as a parameter, and only notices before that one will
734 be converted. Notices are converted in reverse chronological order,
735 so the most recent (and visible) ones will be converted first. The
736 script should work whether or not you have the 'db''utf8' config
738 2. When you're ready, set $config['db']['utf8'] to true, so that
739 new notices will be stored correctly.
741 Configuration options
742 =====================
744 The main configuration file for StatusNet (excepting configurations for
745 dependency software) is config.php in your StatusNet directory. If you
746 edit any other file in the directory, like lib/default.php (where most
747 of the defaults are defined), you will lose your configuration options
748 in any upgrade, and you will wish that you had been more careful.
750 Starting with version 0.9.0, a Web based configuration panel has been
751 added to StatusNet. The preferred method for changing config options is
754 A command-line script, setconfig.php, can be used to set individual
755 configuration options. It's in the scripts/ directory.
757 Starting with version 0.7.1, you can put config files in the
758 /etc/statusnet/ directory on your server, if it exists. Config files
759 will be included in this order:
761 * /etc/statusnet/statusnet.php - server-wide config
762 * /etc/statusnet/<servername>.php - for a virtual host
763 * /etc/statusnet/<servername>_<pathname>.php - for a path
764 * INSTALLDIR/config.php - for a particular implementation
766 Almost all configuration options are made through a two-dimensional
767 associative array, cleverly named $config. A typical configuration
770 $config['section']['option'] = value;
772 For brevity, the following documentation describes each section and
778 This section is a catch-all for site-wide variables.
780 name: the name of your site, like 'YourCompany Microblog'.
781 server: the server part of your site's URLs, like 'example.net'.
782 path: The path part of your site's URLs, like 'statusnet' or ''
784 fancy: whether or not your site uses fancy URLs (see Fancy URLs
785 section above). Default is false.
786 logfile: full path to a file for StatusNet to save logging
787 information to. You may want to use this if you don't have
789 logdebug: whether to log additional debug info like backtraces on
790 hard errors. Default false.
791 locale_path: full path to the directory for locale data. Unless you
792 store all your locale data in one place, you probably
793 don't need to use this.
794 language: default language for your site. Defaults to US English.
795 Note that this is overridden if a user is logged in and has
796 selected a different language. It is also overridden if the
797 user is NOT logged in, but their browser requests a different
798 langauge. Since pretty much everybody's browser requests a
799 language, that means that changing this setting has little or
800 no effect in practice.
801 languages: A list of languages supported on your site. Typically you'd
802 only change this if you wanted to disable support for one
804 "unset($config['site']['languages']['de'])" will disable
806 theme: Theme for your site (see Theme section). Two themes are
807 provided by default: 'default' and 'stoica' (the one used by
808 Identi.ca). It's appreciated if you don't use the 'stoica' theme
809 except as the basis for your own.
810 email: contact email address for your site. By default, it's extracted
811 from your Web server environment; you may want to customize it.
812 broughtbyurl: name of an organization or individual who provides the
813 service. Each page will include a link to this name in the
814 footer. A good way to link to the blog, forum, wiki,
815 corporate portal, or whoever is making the service available.
816 broughtby: text used for the "brought by" link.
817 timezone: default timezone for message display. Users can set their
818 own time zone. Defaults to 'UTC', which is a pretty good default.
819 closed: If set to 'true', will disallow registration on your site.
820 This is a cheap way to restrict accounts to only one
821 individual or group; just register the accounts you want on
822 the service, *then* set this variable to 'true'.
823 inviteonly: If set to 'true', will only allow registration if the user
824 was invited by an existing user.
825 private: If set to 'true', anonymous users will be redirected to the
826 'login' page. Also, API methods that normally require no
827 authentication will require it. Note that this does not turn
828 off registration; use 'closed' or 'inviteonly' for the
830 notice: A plain string that will appear on every page. A good place
831 to put introductory information about your service, or info about
832 upgrades and outages, or other community info. Any HTML will
834 logo: URL of an image file to use as the logo for the site. Overrides
835 the logo in the theme, if any.
836 ssl: Whether to use SSL and https:// URLs for some or all pages.
837 Possible values are 'always' (use it for all pages), 'never'
838 (don't use it for any pages), or 'sometimes' (use it for
839 sensitive pages that include passwords like login and registration,
840 but not for regular pages). Default to 'never'.
841 sslserver: use an alternate server name for SSL URLs, like
842 'secure.example.org'. You should be careful to set cookie
843 parameters correctly so that both the SSL server and the
844 "normal" server can access the session cookie and
845 preferably other cookies as well.
846 shorturllength: Length of URL at which URLs in a message exceeding 140
847 characters will be sent to the user's chosen
849 dupelimit: minimum time allowed for one person to say the same thing
850 twice. Default 60s. Anything lower is considered a user
852 textlimit: default max size for texts in the site. Defaults to 140.
853 0 means no limit. Can be fine-tuned for notices, messages,
854 profile bios and group descriptions.
859 This section is a reference to the configuration options for
860 DB_DataObject (see <http://ur1.ca/7xp>). The ones that you may want to
861 set are listed below for clarity.
863 database: a DSN (Data Source Name) for your StatusNet database. This is
864 in the format 'protocol://username:password@hostname/databasename',
865 where 'protocol' is 'mysql' or 'mysqli' (or possibly 'postgresql', if you
866 really know what you're doing), 'username' is the username,
867 'password' is the password, and etc.
868 ini_yourdbname: if your database is not named 'statusnet', you'll need
869 to set this to point to the location of the
870 statusnet.ini file. Note that the real name of your database
871 should go in there, not literally 'yourdbname'.
872 db_driver: You can try changing this to 'MDB2' to use the other driver
873 type for DB_DataObject, but note that it breaks the OpenID
874 libraries, which only support PEAR::DB.
875 debug: On a database error, you may get a message saying to set this
876 value to 5 to see debug messages in the browser. This breaks
877 just about all pages, and will also expose the username and
879 quote_identifiers: Set this to true if you're using postgresql.
880 type: either 'mysql' or 'postgresql' (used for some bits of
881 database-type-specific SQL in the code). Defaults to mysql.
882 mirror: you can set this to an array of DSNs, like the above
883 'database' value. If it's set, certain read-only actions will
884 use a random value out of this array for the database, rather
885 than the one in 'database' (actually, 'database' is overwritten).
886 You can offload a busy DB server by setting up MySQL replication
887 and adding the slaves to this array. Note that if you want some
888 requests to go to the 'database' (master) server, you'll need
889 to include it in this array, too.
890 utf8: whether to talk to the database in UTF-8 mode. This is the default
891 with new installations, but older sites may want to turn it off
892 until they get their databases fixed up. See "UTF-8 database"
894 schemacheck: when to let plugins check the database schema to add
895 tables or update them. Values can be 'runtime' (default)
896 or 'script'. 'runtime' can be costly (plugins check the
897 schema on every hit, adding potentially several db
898 queries, some quite long), but not everyone knows how to
899 run a script. If you can, set this to 'script' and run
900 scripts/checkschema.php whenever you install or upgrade a
906 By default, StatusNet sites log error messages to the syslog facility.
907 (You can override this using the 'logfile' parameter described above).
909 appname: The name that StatusNet uses to log messages. By default it's
910 "statusnet", but if you have more than one installation on the
911 server, you may want to change the name for each instance so
912 you can track log messages more easily.
913 priority: level to log at. Currently ignored.
914 facility: what syslog facility to used. Defaults to LOG_USER, only
915 reset if you know what syslog is and have a good reason
921 You can configure the software to queue time-consuming tasks, like
922 sending out SMS email or XMPP messages, for off-line processing. See
923 'Queues and daemons' above for how to set this up.
925 enabled: Whether to uses queues. Defaults to false.
926 subsystem: Which kind of queueserver to use. Values include "db" for
927 our hacked-together database queuing (no other server
928 required) and "stomp" for a stomp server.
929 stomp_server: "broker URI" for stomp server. Something like
930 "tcp://hostname:61613". More complicated ones are
931 possible; see your stomp server's documentation for
933 queue_basename: a root name to use for queues (stomp only). Typically
934 something like '/queue/sitename/' makes sense. If running
935 multiple instances on the same server, make sure that
936 either this setting or $config['site']['nickname'] are
937 unique for each site to keep them separate.
939 stomp_username: username for connecting to the stomp server; defaults
941 stomp_password: password for connecting to the stomp server; defaults
944 stomp_persistent: keep items across queue server restart, if enabled.
945 Under ActiveMQ, the server configuration determines if and how
946 persistent storage is actually saved.
948 If using a message queue server other than ActiveMQ, you may
949 need to disable this if it does not support persistence.
951 stomp_transactions: use transactions to aid in error detection.
952 A broken transaction will be seen quickly, allowing a message
953 to be redelivered immediately if a daemon crashes.
955 If using a message queue server other than ActiveMQ, you may
956 need to disable this if it does not support transactions.
958 stomp_acks: send acknowledgements to aid in flow control.
959 An acknowledgement of successful processing tells the server
960 we're ready for more and can help keep things moving smoothly.
962 This should *not* be turned off when running with ActiveMQ, but
963 if using another message queue server that does not support
964 acknowledgements you might need to disable this.
966 softlimit: an absolute or relative "soft memory limit"; daemons will
967 restart themselves gracefully when they find they've hit
968 this amount of memory usage. Defaults to 90% of PHP's global
969 memory_limit setting.
971 inboxes: delivery of messages to receiver's inboxes can be delayed to
972 queue time for best interactive performance on the sender.
973 This may however be annoyingly slow when using the DB queues,
974 so you can set this to false if it's causing trouble.
976 breakout: for stomp, individual queues are by default grouped up for
977 best scalability. If some need to be run by separate daemons,
978 etc they can be manually adjusted here.
980 Default will share all queues for all sites within each group.
981 Specify as <group>/<queue> or <group>/<queue>/<site>,
982 using nickname identifier as site.
984 'main/distrib' separate "distrib" queue covering all sites
985 'xmpp/xmppout/mysite' separate "xmppout" queue covering just 'mysite'
987 max_retries: for stomp, drop messages after N failed attempts to process.
990 dead_letter_dir: for stomp, optional directory to dump data on failed
991 queue processing events after discarding them.
993 stomp_no_transactions: for stomp, the server does not support transactions,
994 so do not try to user them. This is needed for http://www.morbidq.com/.
996 stomp_no_acks: for stomp, the server does not support acknowledgements.
997 so do not try to user them. This is needed for http://www.morbidq.com/.
1002 The default license to use for your users notices. The default is the
1003 Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 license, which is probably the right
1004 choice for any public site. Note that some other servers will not
1005 accept notices if you apply a stricter license than this.
1007 type: one of 'cc' (for Creative Commons licenses), 'allrightsreserved'
1008 (default copyright), or 'private' (for private and confidential
1010 owner: for 'allrightsreserved' or 'private', an assigned copyright
1011 holder (for example, an employer for a private site). If
1012 not specified, will be attributed to 'contributors'.
1013 url: URL of the license, used for links.
1014 title: Title for the license, like 'Creative Commons Attribution 3.0'.
1015 image: A button shown on each page for the license.
1020 This is for configuring out-going email. We use PEAR's Mail module,
1021 see: http://pear.php.net/manual/en/package.mail.mail.factory.php
1023 backend: the backend to use for mail, one of 'mail', 'sendmail', and
1024 'smtp'. Defaults to PEAR's default, 'mail'.
1025 params: if the mail backend requires any parameters, you can provide
1026 them in an associative array.
1031 This is for configuring nicknames in the service.
1033 blacklist: an array of strings for usernames that may not be
1034 registered. A default array exists for strings that are
1035 used by StatusNet (e.g. 'doc', 'main', 'avatar', 'theme')
1036 but you may want to add others if you have other software
1037 installed in a subdirectory of StatusNet or if you just
1038 don't want certain words used as usernames.
1039 featured: an array of nicknames of 'featured' users of the site.
1040 Can be useful to draw attention to well-known users, or
1041 interesting people, or whatever.
1046 For configuring avatar access.
1048 dir: Directory to look for avatar files and to put them into.
1049 Defaults to avatar subdirectory of install directory; if
1050 you change it, make sure to change path, too.
1051 path: Path to avatars. Defaults to path for avatar subdirectory,
1052 but you can change it if you wish. Note that this will
1053 be included with the avatar server, too.
1054 server: If set, defines another server where avatars are stored in the
1055 root directory. Note that the 'avatar' subdir still has to be
1056 writeable. You'd typically use this to split HTTP requests on
1057 the client to speed up page loading, either with another
1058 virtual server or with an NFS or SAMBA share. Clients
1059 typically only make 2 connections to a single server at a
1060 time <http://ur1.ca/6ih>, so this can parallelize the job.
1062 ssl: Whether to access avatars using HTTPS. Defaults to null, meaning
1063 to guess based on site-wide SSL settings.
1068 For configuring the public stream.
1070 localonly: If set to true, only messages posted by users of this
1071 service (rather than other services, filtered through OMB)
1072 are shown in the public stream. Default true.
1073 blacklist: An array of IDs of users to hide from the public stream.
1074 Useful if you have someone making excessive Twitterfeed posts
1075 to the site, other kinds of automated posts, testing bots, etc.
1076 autosource: Sources of notices that are from automatic posters, and thus
1077 should be kept off the public timeline. Default empty.
1082 server: Like avatars, you can speed up page loading by pointing the
1083 theme file lookup to another server (virtual or real).
1084 Defaults to NULL, meaning to use the site server.
1085 dir: Directory where theme files are stored. Used to determine
1086 whether to show parts of a theme file. Defaults to the theme
1087 subdirectory of the install directory.
1088 path: Path part of theme URLs, before the theme name. Relative to the
1089 theme server. It may make sense to change this path when upgrading,
1090 (using version numbers as the path) to make sure that all files are
1091 reloaded by caching clients or proxies. Defaults to null,
1092 which means to use the site path + '/theme'.
1093 ssl: Whether to use SSL for theme elements. Default is null, which means
1094 guess based on site SSL settings.
1099 server: You can speed up page loading by pointing the
1100 theme file lookup to another server (virtual or real).
1101 Defaults to NULL, meaning to use the site server.
1102 path: Path part of Javascript URLs. Defaults to null,
1103 which means to use the site path + '/js/'.
1104 ssl: Whether to use SSL for JavaScript files. Default is null, which means
1105 guess based on site SSL settings.
1110 For configuring the XMPP sub-system.
1112 enabled: Whether to accept and send messages by XMPP. Default false.
1113 server: server part of XMPP ID for update user.
1114 port: connection port for clients. Default 5222, which you probably
1115 shouldn't need to change.
1116 user: username for the client connection. Users will receive messages
1117 from 'user'@'server'.
1118 resource: a unique identifier for the connection to the server. This
1119 is actually used as a prefix for each XMPP component in the system.
1120 password: password for the user account.
1121 host: some XMPP domains are served by machines with a different
1122 hostname. (For example, @gmail.com GTalk users connect to
1123 talk.google.com). Set this to the correct hostname if that's the
1124 case with your server.
1125 encryption: Whether to encrypt the connection between StatusNet and the
1126 XMPP server. Defaults to true, but you can get
1127 considerably better performance turning it off if you're
1128 connecting to a server on the same machine or on a
1130 debug: if turned on, this will make the XMPP library blurt out all of
1131 the incoming and outgoing messages as XML stanzas. Use as a
1132 last resort, and never turn it on if you don't have queues
1133 enabled, since it will spit out sensitive data to the browser.
1134 public: an array of JIDs to send _all_ notices to. This is useful for
1135 participating in third-party search and archiving services.
1140 For configuring invites.
1142 enabled: Whether to allow users to send invites. Default true.
1147 Miscellaneous tagging stuff.
1149 dropoff: Decay factor for tag listing, in seconds.
1150 Defaults to exponential decay over ten days; you can twiddle
1151 with it to try and get better results for your site.
1156 Settings for the "popular" section of the site.
1158 dropoff: Decay factor for popularity listing, in seconds.
1159 Defaults to exponential decay over ten days; you can twiddle
1160 with it to try and get better results for your site.
1165 For daemon processes.
1167 piddir: directory that daemon processes should write their PID file
1168 (process ID) to. Defaults to /var/run/, which is where this
1169 stuff should usually go on Unix-ish systems.
1170 user: If set, the daemons will try to change their effective user ID
1171 to this user before running. Probably a good idea, especially if
1172 you start the daemons as root. Note: user name, like 'daemon',
1174 group: If set, the daemons will try to change their effective group ID
1175 to this named group. Again, a name, not a numerical ID.
1180 You can get a significant boost in performance by caching some
1181 database data in memcached <http://www.danga.com/memcached/>.
1183 enabled: Set to true to enable. Default false.
1184 server: a string with the hostname of the memcached server. Can also
1185 be an array of hostnames, if you've got more than one server.
1186 base: memcached uses key-value pairs to store data. We build long,
1187 funny-looking keys to make sure we don't have any conflicts. The
1188 base of the key is usually a simplified version of the site name
1189 (like "Identi.ca" => "identica"), but you can overwrite this if
1190 you need to. You can safely ignore it if you only have one
1191 StatusNet site using your memcached server.
1192 port: Port to connect to; defaults to 11211.
1199 enabled: Whether to enable post-by-email. Defaults to true. You will
1200 also need to set up maildaemon.php.
1205 For SMS integration.
1207 enabled: Whether to enable SMS integration. Defaults to true. Queues
1208 should also be enabled.
1213 A catch-all for integration with other systems.
1215 taguri: base for tag:// URIs. Defaults to site-server + ',2009'.
1222 enabled: No longer used. If you set this to something other than true,
1223 StatusNet will no longer run.
1228 For notice-posting throttles.
1230 enabled: Whether to throttle posting. Defaults to false.
1231 count: Each user can make this many posts in 'timespan' seconds. So, if count
1232 is 100 and timespan is 3600, then there can be only 100 posts
1233 from a user every hour.
1234 timespan: see 'count'.
1241 biolimit: max character length of bio; 0 means no limit; null means to use
1242 the site text limit default.
1247 Options with new users.
1249 default: nickname of a user account to automatically subscribe new
1250 users to. Typically this would be system account for e.g.
1251 service updates or announcements. Users are able to unsub
1252 if they want. Default is null; no auto subscribe.
1253 welcome: nickname of a user account that sends welcome messages to new
1254 users. Can be the same as 'default' account, although on
1255 busy servers it may be a good idea to keep that one just for
1256 'urgent' messages. Default is null; no message.
1258 If either of these special user accounts are specified, the users should
1259 be created before the configuration is updated.
1264 The software will, by default, send statistical snapshots about the
1265 local installation to a stats server on the status.net Web site. This
1266 data is used by the developers to prioritize development decisions. No
1267 identifying data about users or organizations is collected. The data
1268 is available to the public for review. Participating in this survey
1269 helps StatusNet developers take your needs into account when updating
1272 run: string indicating when to run the statistics. Values can be 'web'
1273 (run occasionally at Web time), 'cron' (run from a cron script),
1274 or 'never' (don't ever run). If you set it to 'cron', remember to
1275 schedule the script to run on a regular basis.
1276 frequency: if run value is 'web', how often to report statistics.
1277 Measured in Web hits; depends on how active your site is.
1278 Default is 10000 -- that is, one report every 10000 Web hits,
1280 reporturl: URL to post statistics to. Defaults to StatusNet developers'
1281 report system, but if they go evil or disappear you may
1282 need to update this to another value. Note: if you
1283 don't want to report stats, it's much better to
1284 set 'run' to 'never' than to set this value to something
1290 The software lets users upload files with their notices. You can configure
1291 the types of accepted files by mime types and a trio of quota options:
1292 per file, per user (total), per user per month.
1294 We suggest the use of the pecl file_info extension to handle mime type
1297 supported: an array of mime types you accept to store and distribute,
1298 like 'image/gif', 'video/mpeg', 'audio/mpeg', etc. Make sure you
1299 setup your server to properly recognize the types you want to
1301 uploads: false to disable uploading files with notices (true by default).
1302 filecommand: The required MIME_Type library may need to use the 'file'
1303 command. It tries the one in the Web server's path, but if
1304 you're having problems with uploads, try setting this to the
1305 correct value. Note: 'file' must accept '-b' and '-i' options.
1307 For quotas, be sure you've set the upload_max_filesize and post_max_size
1308 in php.ini to be large enough to handle your upload. In httpd.conf
1309 (if you're using apache), check that the LimitRequestBody directive isn't
1310 set too low (it's optional, so it may not be there at all).
1312 file_quota: maximum size for a single file upload in bytes. A user can send
1313 any amount of notices with attachments as long as each attachment
1314 is smaller than file_quota.
1315 user_quota: total size in bytes a user can store on this server. Each user
1316 can store any number of files as long as their total size does
1317 not exceed the user_quota.
1318 monthly_quota: total size permitted in the current month. This is the total
1319 size in bytes that a user can upload each month.
1320 dir: directory accessible to the Web process where uploads should go.
1321 Defaults to the 'file' subdirectory of the install directory, which
1322 should be writeable by the Web user.
1323 server: server name to use when creating URLs for uploaded files.
1324 Defaults to null, meaning to use the default Web server. Using
1325 a virtual server here can speed up Web performance.
1326 path: URL path, relative to the server, to find files. Defaults to
1327 main path + '/file/'.
1328 ssl: whether to use HTTPS for file URLs. Defaults to null, meaning to
1329 guess based on other SSL settings.
1330 filecommand: command to use for determining the type of a file. May be
1331 skipped if fileinfo extension is installed. Defaults to
1337 Options for group functionality.
1339 maxaliases: maximum number of aliases a group can have. Default 3. Set
1340 to 0 or less to prevent aliases in a group.
1341 desclimit: maximum number of characters to allow in group descriptions.
1342 null (default) means to use the site-wide text limits. 0
1348 oEmbed endpoint for multimedia attachments (links in posts).
1350 endpoint: oohembed endpoint using http://oohembed.com/ software.
1355 Some stuff for search.
1357 type: type of search. Ignored if PostgreSQL or Sphinx are enabled. Can either
1358 be 'fulltext' (default) or 'like'. The former is faster and more efficient
1359 but requires the lame old MyISAM engine for MySQL. The latter
1360 will work with InnoDB but could be miserably slow on large
1361 systems. We'll probably add another type sometime in the future,
1362 with our own indexing system (maybe like MediaWiki's).
1369 handle: boolean. Whether we should register our own PHP session-handling
1370 code (using the database and memcache if enabled). Defaults to false.
1371 Setting this to true makes some sense on large or multi-server
1372 sites, but it probably won't hurt for smaller ones, either.
1373 debug: whether to output debugging info for session storage. Can help
1374 with weird session bugs, sometimes. Default false.
1379 Users can upload backgrounds for their pages; this section defines
1382 server: the server to use for background. Using a separate (even
1383 virtual) server for this can speed up load times. Default is
1384 null; same as site server.
1385 dir: directory to write backgrounds too. Default is '/background/'
1386 subdir of install dir.
1387 path: path to backgrounds. Default is sub-path of install path; note
1388 that you may need to change this if you change site-path too.
1389 ssl: Whether or not to use HTTPS for background files. Defaults to
1390 null, meaning to guess from site-wide SSL settings.
1395 Using the "XML-RPC Ping" method initiated by weblogs.com, the site can
1396 notify third-party servers of updates.
1398 notify: an array of URLs for ping endpoints. Default is the empty
1399 array (no notification).
1404 Default design (colors and background) for the site. Actual appearance
1405 depends on the theme. Null values mean to use the theme defaults.
1407 backgroundcolor: Hex color of the site background.
1408 contentcolor: Hex color of the content area background.
1409 sidebarcolor: Hex color of the sidebar background.
1410 textcolor: Hex color of all non-link text.
1411 linkcolor: Hex color of all links.
1412 backgroundimage: Image to use for the background.
1413 disposition: Flags for whether or not to tile the background image.
1418 Configuration options specific to notices.
1420 contentlimit: max length of the plain-text content of a notice.
1421 Default is null, meaning to use the site-wide text limit.
1427 Configuration options specific to messages.
1429 contentlimit: max length of the plain-text content of a message.
1430 Default is null, meaning to use the site-wide text limit.
1436 Configuration options for the login command.
1438 disabled: whether to enable this command. If enabled, users who send
1439 the text 'login' to the site through any channel will
1440 receive a link to login to the site automatically in return.
1441 Possibly useful for users who primarily use an XMPP or SMS
1442 interface and can't be bothered to remember their site
1443 password. Note that the security implications of this are
1444 pretty serious and have not been thoroughly tested. You
1445 should enable it only after you've convinced yourself that
1446 it is safe. Default is 'false'.
1451 If an installation has only one user, this can simplify a lot of the
1452 interface. It also makes the user's profile the root URL.
1454 enabled: Whether to run in "single user mode". Default false.
1455 nickname: nickname of the single user.
1460 We put out a default robots.txt file to guide the processing of
1461 Web crawlers. See http://www.robotstxt.org/ for more information
1462 on the format of this file.
1464 crawldelay: if non-empty, this value is provided as the Crawl-Delay:
1465 for the robots.txt file. see http://ur1.ca/l5a0
1466 for more information. Default is zero, no explicit delay.
1467 disallow: Array of (virtual) directories to disallow. Default is 'main',
1468 'search', 'message', 'settings', 'admin'. Ignored when site
1469 is private, in which case the entire site ('/') is disallowed.
1474 Beginning with the 0.7.x branch, StatusNet has supported a simple but
1475 powerful plugin architecture. Important events in the code are named,
1476 like 'StartNoticeSave', and other software can register interest
1477 in those events. When the events happen, the other software is called
1478 and has a choice of accepting or rejecting the events.
1480 In the simplest case, you can add a function to config.php and use the
1481 Event::addHandler() function to hook an event:
1483 function AddGoogleLink($action)
1485 $action->menuItem('http://www.google.com/', _('Google'), _('Search engine'));
1489 Event::addHandler('EndPrimaryNav', 'AddGoogleLink');
1491 This adds a menu item to the end of the main navigation menu. You can
1492 see the list of existing events, and parameters that handlers must
1493 implement, in EVENTS.txt.
1495 The Plugin class in lib/plugin.php makes it easier to write more
1496 complex plugins. Sub-classes can just create methods named
1497 'onEventName', where 'EventName' is the name of the event (case
1498 matters!). These methods will be automatically registered as event
1499 handlers by the Plugin constructor (which you must call from your own
1500 class's constructor).
1502 Several example plugins are included in the plugins/ directory. You
1503 can enable a plugin with the following line in config.php:
1505 addPlugin('Example', array('param1' => 'value1',
1506 'param2' => 'value2'));
1508 This will look for and load files named 'ExamplePlugin.php' or
1509 'Example/ExamplePlugin.php' either in the plugins/ directory (for
1510 plugins that ship with StatusNet) or in the local/ directory (for
1511 plugins you write yourself or that you get from somewhere else) or
1514 Plugins are documented in their own directories.
1519 The primary output for StatusNet is syslog, unless you configured a
1520 separate logfile. This is probably the first place to look if you're
1521 getting weird behaviour from StatusNet.
1523 If you're tracking the unstable version of StatusNet in the git
1524 repository (see below), and you get a compilation error ("unexpected
1525 T_STRING") in the browser, check to see that you don't have any
1526 conflicts in your code.
1528 If you upgraded to StatusNet 0.9.1 without reading the "Notice
1529 inboxes" section above, and all your users' 'Personal' tabs are empty,
1530 read the "Notice inboxes" section above.
1535 These are some myths you may see on the Web about StatusNet.
1536 Documentation from the core team about StatusNet has been pretty
1537 sparse, so some backtracking and guesswork resulted in some incorrect
1540 - "Set $config['db']['debug'] = 5 to debug the database." This is an
1541 extremely bad idea. It's a tool built into DB_DataObject that will
1542 emit oodles of print lines directly to the browser of your users.
1543 Among these lines will be your database username and password. Do
1544 not enable this option on a production Web site for any reason.
1546 - "Edit dataobject.ini with the following settings..." dataobject.ini
1547 is a development file for the DB_DataObject framework and is not
1548 used by the running software. It was removed from the StatusNet
1549 distribution because its presence was confusing. Do not bother
1550 configuring dataobject.ini, and do not put your database username
1551 and password into the file on a production Web server; unscrupulous
1552 persons may try to read it to get your passwords.
1557 If you're adventurous or impatient, you may want to install the
1558 development version of StatusNet. To get it, use the git version
1559 control tool <http://git-scm.com/> like so:
1561 git clone git@gitorious.org:statusnet/mainline.git
1563 This is the version of the software that runs on Identi.ca and the
1564 status.net hosted service. Using it is a mixed bag. On the positive
1565 side, it usually includes the latest security and bug fix patches. On
1566 the downside, it may also include changes that require admin
1567 intervention (like running a script or even raw SQL!) that may not be
1568 documented yet. It may be a good idea to test this version before
1569 installing it on your production machines.
1571 To keep it up-to-date, use 'git pull'. Watch for conflicts!
1576 There are several ways to get more information about StatusNet.
1578 * There is a mailing list for StatusNet developers and admins at
1579 http://mail.status.net/mailman/listinfo/statusnet-dev
1580 * The #statusnet IRC channel on freenode.net <http://www.freenode.net/>.
1581 * The StatusNet wiki, http://status.net/wiki/
1582 * The StatusNet blog, http://status.net/blog/
1583 * The StatusNet status update, <http://status.status.net/> (!)
1588 * Microblogging messages to http://support.status.net/ are very welcome.
1589 * The microblogging group http://identi.ca/group/statusnet is a good
1590 place to discuss the software.
1591 * StatusNet has a bug tracker for any defects you may find, or ideas for
1592 making things better. http://status.net/bugs
1597 The following is an incomplete list of developers who've worked on
1598 StatusNet. Apologies for any oversight; please let evan@status.net know
1599 if anyone's been overlooked in error.
1601 * Evan Prodromou, founder and lead developer, StatusNet, Inc.
1602 * Zach Copley, StatusNet, Inc.
1603 * Earle Martin, StatusNet, Inc.
1604 * Marie-Claude Doyon, designer, StatusNet, Inc.
1605 * Sarven Capadisli, StatusNet, Inc.
1606 * Robin Millette, StatusNet, Inc.
1617 * Tryggvi Björgvinsson
1621 * Ken Sheppardson (Trac server, man-about-town)
1622 * Tiago 'gouki' Faria (i18n manager)
1624 * Leslie Michael Orchard
1628 * Tobias Diekershoff
1640 Thanks also to the developers of our upstream library code and to the
1641 thousands of people who have tried out Identi.ca, installed StatusNet,
1642 told their friends, and built the Open Microblogging network to what