Ok I broke something on my saidit install. Pastebin shows section of admin config I was working on when I broke the UI :(

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[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (36 children)

Yeah that's weird. Maybe you did a sudo wget or a sudo tar.

[–]portcity[S] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (35 children)

Ok I think I'm almost there. Here is what I've learned: I figured out that even though I had done the full remove procedure on anope in all my users multiple times, there was this lingering anope-2.0.6-source.tar.gz file that was showing up under user:chatuser but was installed in root. It wasn't being removed because it was labeled with a "1" on the end (I presume because of the multiple installations). So I manually removed it and now all the chat features appear to be installed.

I'm still getting the "reddit.local's IP address cannot be found" in the box on my sidebar but I'm about to scour the config files on all the chat features and see if I can't find somewhere where it should have my domain.

Meanwhile, earlier you wrote this which I'm confused by: "One thing you will need to do for the full chat setup is configure both TheLounge and Unrealircd to use your SSL cert. How I do it is copy and rename the certs to here, and have theLounge and Unreal use these copies (unreal expects these names, no config change needed for unreal):

/home/reddit/unrealircd/conf/ssl/server.cert.pem
/home/reddit/unrealircd/conf/ssl/server.key.pem

So if my user is chatuser, should those read /home/chatuser/ ? Do you mean I change those in the Lounge config file but I don't need to worry about it in Unrealircd?

Thanks again. x

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Cool good progress. For the chat iframe that SaidIt tries to load, there's a specific config param that sets that url... You might need to copy that into development.update to set it properly. It starts with "chat", you'll find it.

As far as copying the SSL, I've backed off that and think it's messy. Check out the updated README. You just need to chown your certs, as in readme, and then update the config for unreal and thelounge, to point to the correct cert.

[–]portcity[S] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (33 children)

Today's issues: Trying to chown my certs, as per the updated README here: Setup SSL cert permissions, start unreal, and cleanup:

$ sudo usermod -aG ssl-cert reddit $ sudo usermod -aG ssl-cert irc $ ./unrealircd start $ rm -rf ~/unrealircd-4.2.3*

I'm still getting permission denied on the cert, meaning there's something about this process that isn't working. I've done quite a bit of googling on this, and I haven't found a chown that really differs from this however.

Second, I've been investigating example.ini and I can't figure out how to create my own file and run make ini on it. Here are the instructions at the top of example.ini:

DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE

This is a base template. To apply changes to your

reddit instance, create a "myreddit.update" config

file, then run 'make ini'. 'make ini' will combine

this template with the myreddit.update file and create a

'myreddit.ini'. ('myreddit.update' is just an example;

any name will do - e.g., 'foo.update' will create

'foo.ini')

I did create a file called portcity.update. But when I run make ini, I get reddit@redditclone:~$ make ini make: *** No rule to make target `ini'. Stop.

I'm thinking maybe I created portcity.update wrong somehow (like is there a special procedure to create a config file?) Can I just use development.update? Or is that bad.

Thanks and happy weekend!

[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (32 children)

Happy weekend!

Regarding the SSL cert permissions, can you show me the output of:

$ sudo ls -l /etc/letsencrypt/live/portcity.online/privkey.pem

This file is the one we need to chown and chmod (like here).

Regarding reddit configuration, yes, you only need development.update and it's all setup for you. And you can only run make ini from the right directory. See https://github.com/libertysoft3/saidit#updating-configuration

[–]portcity[S] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (31 children)

> sudo ls -l /etc/letsencrypt/live/portcity.online/privkey.pem

This is the output:

lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 42 Jul 20 01:48 /etc/letsencrypt/live/portcity.online/privkey.pem -> ../../archive/portcity.online/privkey1.pem

And as for development.update ... when I nano it, I notice that it's far shorter in length than example.ini (even though I've run make ini after closing development.update). Is it ok if I just copy/paste the contents of example.ini into development.update?

[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (30 children)

Try this:

$ sudo chown -h reddit:ssl-cert /etc/letsencrypt/live/portcity.online/privkey.pem
$ sudo chmod g+r /etc/letsencrypt/live/portcity.online/privkey.pem

Then test again with the ls -l.

it's far shorter in length than example.ini

This is an override system. example.ini and development.update are combined into development.ini which reddit actually looks at. so only edit development.update, and only copy in the things that you want to change. If you leave example.ini unmodified, then it is easy for new features and configurations to be introduced, it's in the git repo.

[–]portcity[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (29 children)

Ok those new chown/chmods worked. Thanks!

I just copied some stuff from example.ini into development.update, and after I saved and closed development.update, I ran make ini. This is what I got: reddit@redditclone:~$ make ini make: *** No rule to make target `ini'. Stop.

[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (28 children)

What directory are you in when you run 'make ini'? You have to be in 'r2'.

[–]portcity[S] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Yeah that worked :)

[–]portcity[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (26 children)

Ok, a bit of progress: after copying the chat features from example.ini into development.update and futzing with them a bit, the chat box has changed from saying "reddit.local" to this mysterious link:

https://portcity.online:2053/?tls=true&lockchannel&autologin&user=VtFOG9xkX3JrlbYFog00RJnWW5HxmM&al-password=sAUfvG5XAgKOpR1xyzNFp9Mlk8KR1G&autoconnect&nick=portcity&username=portcity&realname=portcity&join=%23%255BDEV%255D%2520saidit

Does that mean anything to you? You could just look at it at https://portcity.online if that's easier.