- Sphinx Search. A client for the sphinx server, an alternative
to MySQL or Postgresql fulltext search. You will also need a
Sphinx server to serve the search queries.
+- bcmath or gmp. For Salmon signatures (part of OStatus). Needed
+ if you have OStatus configured.
You will almost definitely get 2-3 times better performance from your
site if you install a PHP bytecode cache/accelerator. Some well-known
- PEAR Validate is an oEmbed dependency.
- PEAR Net_URL2 is an oEmbed dependency.
- Console_GetOpt for parsing command-line options.
+- libomb. a library for implementing OpenMicroBlogging 0.1, the
+ predecessor to OStatus.
+- HTTP_Request2, a library for making HTTP requests.
A design goal of StatusNet is that the basic Web functionality should
work on even the most restrictive commercial hosting services.
1. Unpack the tarball you downloaded on your Web server. Usually a
command like this will work:
- tar zxf statusnet-0.8.2.tar.gz
+ tar zxf statusnet-0.9.0.tar.gz
- ...which will make a statusnet-0.8.2 subdirectory in your current
+ ...which will make a statusnet-0.9.0 subdirectory in your current
directory. (If you don't have shell access on your Web server, you
may have to unpack the tarball on your local computer and FTP the
files to the server.)
2. Move the tarball to a directory of your choosing in your Web root
directory. Usually something like this will work:
- mv statusnet-0.8.2 /var/www/mublog
+ mv statusnet-0.9.0 /var/www/mublog
This will make your StatusNet instance available in the mublog path of
your server, like "http://example.net/mublog". "microblog" or
config section below for how to configure to use STOMP. As of this
writing, the software has been tested with ActiveMQ.
-Sitemaps
---------
-
-Sitemap files <http://sitemaps.org/> are a very nice way of telling
-search engines and other interested bots what's available on your site
-and what's changed recently. You can generate sitemap files for your
-StatusNet instance.
-
-1. Choose your sitemap URL layout. StatusNet creates a number of
- sitemap XML files for different parts of your site. You may want to
- put these in a sub-directory of your StatusNet directory to avoid
- clutter. The sitemap index file tells the search engines and other
- bots where to find all the sitemap files; it *must* be in the main
- installation directory or higher. Both types of file must be
- available through HTTP.
-
-2. To generate your sitemaps, run the following command on your server:
-
- php scripts/sitemap.php -f index-file-path -d sitemap-directory -u URL-prefix-for-sitemaps
-
- Here, index-file-path is the full path to the sitemap index file,
- like './sitemapindex.xml'. sitemap-directory is the directory where
- you want the sitemaps stored, like './sitemaps/' (make sure the dir
- exists). URL-prefix-for-sitemaps is the full URL for the sitemap dir,
- typically something like <http://example.net/mublog/sitemaps/>.
-
-You can use several methods for submitting your sitemap index to
-search engines to get your site indexed. One is to add a line like the
-following to your robots.txt file:
-
- Sitemap: /mublog/sitemapindex.xml
-
-This is a good idea for letting *all* Web spiders know about your
-sitemap. You can also submit sitemap files to major search engines
-using their respective "Webmaster centres"; see sitemaps.org for links
-to these resources.
-
Themes
------
If you've been using StatusNet 0.7, 0.6, 0.5 or lower, or if you've
been tracking the "git" version of the software, you will probably
want to upgrade and keep your existing data. There is no automated
-upgrade procedure in StatusNet 0.8.2. Try these step-by-step
+upgrade procedure in StatusNet 0.9.0. Try these step-by-step
instructions; read to the end first before trying them.
0. Download StatusNet and set up all the prerequisites as if you were
5. Once all writing processes to your site are turned off, make a
final backup of the Web directory and database.
6. Move your StatusNet directory to a backup spot, like "mublog.bak".
-7. Unpack your StatusNet 0.8.2 tarball and move it to "mublog" or
+7. Unpack your StatusNet 0.9.0 tarball and move it to "mublog" or
wherever your code used to be.
8. Copy the config.php file and avatar directory from your old
directory to your new directory.
T_STRING") in the browser, check to see that you don't have any
conflicts in your code.
-If you upgraded to StatusNet 0.8.2 without reading the "Notice
+If you upgraded to StatusNet 0.9.0 without reading the "Notice
inboxes" section above, and all your users' 'Personal' tabs are empty,
read the "Notice inboxes" section above.
* The #statusnet IRC channel on freenode.net <http://www.freenode.net/>.
* The StatusNet wiki, http://status.net/wiki/
* The StatusNet blog, http://status.net/blog/
-* The StatusNet status update, <http://status.status.net/status> (!)
+* The StatusNet status update, <http://status.status.net/> (!)
Feedback
========
-* Microblogging messages to http://identi.ca/evan are very welcome.
+* Microblogging messages to http://support.status.net/ are very welcome.
+* The microblogging group http://identi.ca/group/statusnet is a good
+ place to discuss the software.
* StatusNet's Trac server has a bug tracker for any defects you may find,
or ideas for making things better. http://status.net/trac/
-* e-mail to evan@status.net will usually be read and responded to very
- quickly, unless the question is really hard.
Credits
=======