Please be as clear as you can about your operating environment and provide as much detail as possible about any error messages you may see, so that we can prevent it from happening in the future.
Due to the large variety of operating systems and PHP platforms in existence we may have only limited ability to debug your PHP installation or acquire any missing modules - but we will do our best to solve any general code issues.
-If you do not have a Friendica account yet, you can register a temporary one at [tryfriendica.de](https://tryfriendica.de) and join the forums mentioned above from there.
-The account will expire after 7 days, but you can ask the server admin to keep your account longer, should the problem not be resolved after that.
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## Prerequisites
* Choose a domain name or subdomain name for your server. Put some thought into this. While changing it after installation is supported, things still might break.
### Requirements
* Apache with mod-rewrite enabled and "Options All" so you can use a local `.htaccess` file
-* PHP 7+ (PHP 7.1+ is recommended for performance and official support)
+* PHP 7.3+ (PHP8 is not fully supported yet)
* PHP *command line* access with register_argc_argv set to true in the php.ini file
* Curl, GD, PDO, mbstrings, MySQLi, hash, xml, zip and OpenSSL extensions
* The POSIX module of PHP needs to be activated (e.g. [RHEL, CentOS](http://www.bigsoft.co.uk/blog/index.php/2014/12/08/posix-php-commands-not-working-under-centos-7) have disabled it)
- * some form of email server or email gateway such that PHP mail() works
+ * Some form of email server or email gateway such that PHP mail() works.
+ If you cannot set up your own email server, you can use the [phpmailer](https://github.com/friendica/friendica-addons/tree/develop/phpmailer) addon and use a remote SMTP server.
* MySQL 5.6+ or an equivalent alternative for MySQL (MariaDB, Percona Server etc.)
* ability to schedule jobs with cron (Linux/Mac) or Scheduled Tasks (Windows)
* installation into a top-level domain or sub-domain (without a directory/path component in the URL) is RECOMMENDED. Directory paths will not be as convenient to use and have not been thoroughly tested. This is REQUIRED if you wish to communicate with the Diaspora network.
Make sure the folder *view/smarty3* exists and is writable by the webserver user, in this case *www-data*
- mkdir view/smarty3
+ mkdir -p view/smarty3
chown www-data:www-data view/smarty3
chmod 775 view/smarty3
sql_mode = '';
After that, restart mysql and try again.
+
+### Your worker never or rarely runs
+
+Friendica is coded to always play nice. It checks whether the host machine is idle enough and if it _seems_ to be overloaded, it intermittently refuses to process the worker queue.
+
+Such checks originate from the days of single-user single-core machines and involves thresholds that you should adjust based on the number of exclusive CPU cores you have. See this issue for more information:
+
+* https://github.com/friendica/friendica/issues/10131
+
+If you want to be neighborly and are using a shared web hosting PaaS provider, especially within the free tier, you need to set `maxloadavg` to say twice the maximum value of `/proc/loadavg` during peak hours.
+
+If you have the whole (virtual) machine for yourself such as in case of an IaaS VPS, you can set it to orders of magnitude higher than its commonly observed value, such as 1000.
+
+You should instead enact limits in your web server configuration based on the number of entry processes to cap the concurrent memory usage of your PHP processes.
+See `RLimitMEM`, `RLimitCPU`, `RLimitNPROC`, `StartServers`, `ServerLimit`, `MaxRequestsPerChild`, `pm.max_children`, `pm.start_servers` and related options in your server.
+
+### Error uploading even small image files
+
+You tried to upload an image up to 100kB and it failed.
+
+You may not have the ownership or file mode set correctly if you are using the file system storage backend.
+
+Change the backend to database. If this solves it, that is what needs to be fixed.
+
+### Error uploading large files
+
+You may find `413 Request Entity Too Large` or `500 Internal Error` in the network inspector of the browser if the file is too large, for example if it is a video.
+
+First try to upload a very small file, up to 100kB. If that succeeds, you will need to increase limits at multiple places, including on any web proxy that you are using.
+
+In your PHP ini:
+
+* `upload_max_filesize`: defaults to 2MB
+* `post_max_size`: defaults to 8MB, must be greater than `upload_max_filesize`
+* `memory_limit`: defaults to 128MB, must be greater than `post_max_size`
+
+You should verify whether you changed them in the _right file_ by checking the web interface at the end of the overview on the `Admin` panel.
+
+For Apache2:
+
+* `LimitRequestBody`: defaults to unlimited
+* `SSLRenegBufferSize`: defaults to 128kB, only if your site uses TLS and perhaps only when using `SSLVerifyClient` or `SSLVerifyDepth`
+
+For nginx:
+
+* `client_max_body_size`: defaults to 1MB
+
+If you are using the database backend for storage, increase this in your SQL configuration:
+
+* `max_allowed_packet`: defaults to 32MB
+
+If you use the ModSecurity WAF:
+
+* `SecRequestBodyLimit`: defaults to 12MB
+* `SecRequestBodyNoFilesLimit`: defaults to 128kB, should not apply to Friendica
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