Good morning Fedi friends and happy Saturday!
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@elena You may investigate backing up on remote servers, and restoration... at a later point. Good luck, and please, keep sharing your journey
@olberger yes yes I know and Iโm typically much more cautious and take snapshots before starting critical jobs.
This was a fresh installation on a test VPS so I was a little too cavalier about things.
Never in a million years would I do such foolish moves on a VPS hosting important tools. But hey the silver lining is that I learned an important lesson and can integrate it into my YunoHost starter guide ๐
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Good morning Fedi friends and happy Saturday! ๐โ
File under: I'm such a clown sometimes. I did something extremely foolish yesterday (installation-wise) that bricked my whole YunoHost with Sharkey instance. This is not the fault of YunoHost or Sharkey, it's just me being the biggest airhead.
So this morning I nuked that VPS (Hetzner makes it so easy to start and stop) and, armed with a stopwatch, I wanted to see how long it would take me to order a new server, log in, install YunoHost and set up a main URL and a subdomain to log in.
I had this unique challenge that we're going hiking in the mountains so my time is very limited this morning.
How long did it take me? A grand total of 14 minutes.
The perks of being a fool is that you repeat the steps so many times that you go from being terrified (what do I have to do now?) to just sailing through the steps.
Time went like this:
1m30s: logged onto Hetzner, ordered a new server (Debian v12)
4m50s in: logged in, increased security, ran apt update and apt upgrade
5m in: installed YunoHost (thanks #curl)
7m30s in: with YunoHost successfully installed, I got into their beautiful graphical interface to continue the post install
9m30s in: post installation complete
11m 20s in: began tweaking DNS records for the main domain and the logging in subdomain, installed certificates, etc.
14m23s = all done, tripled checked that everything is working in incognito mode (it is) ๐ฅณโ
Wishing you all a great day. Time to go hiking for me and my fam ๐ปโ
#MySoCalledSudoLife #selfhostingWhy ordering a new server ?
Was it not possible to reinstall a fresh distribution on the bricked one ?
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Why ordering a new server ?
Was it not possible to reinstall a fresh distribution on the bricked one ?
(I am a newbie in VPS)@tanavit because Iโm the biggest airhead sometimes and I didnโt take a snapshot of the instance before attempting to install Sharkey ๐คฆ๐ปโโ๏ธ
in my defense I was in a rush and it was a test VPS with a fresh installation of YunoHost so I didnโt have much at stake. Easier to just wipe it and start overโฆ ๐ฅฒ
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Good morning Fedi friends and happy Saturday! ๐โ
File under: I'm such a clown sometimes. I did something extremely foolish yesterday (installation-wise) that bricked my whole YunoHost with Sharkey instance. This is not the fault of YunoHost or Sharkey, it's just me being the biggest airhead.
So this morning I nuked that VPS (Hetzner makes it so easy to start and stop) and, armed with a stopwatch, I wanted to see how long it would take me to order a new server, log in, install YunoHost and set up a main URL and a subdomain to log in.
I had this unique challenge that we're going hiking in the mountains so my time is very limited this morning.
How long did it take me? A grand total of 14 minutes.
The perks of being a fool is that you repeat the steps so many times that you go from being terrified (what do I have to do now?) to just sailing through the steps.
Time went like this:
1m30s: logged onto Hetzner, ordered a new server (Debian v12)
4m50s in: logged in, increased security, ran apt update and apt upgrade
5m in: installed YunoHost (thanks #curl)
7m30s in: with YunoHost successfully installed, I got into their beautiful graphical interface to continue the post install
9m30s in: post installation complete
11m 20s in: began tweaking DNS records for the main domain and the logging in subdomain, installed certificates, etc.
14m23s = all done, tripled checked that everything is working in incognito mode (it is) ๐ฅณโ
Wishing you all a great day. Time to go hiking for me and my fam ๐ปโ
#MySoCalledSudoLife #selfhosting@elena I hope you have an enjoyable day in the mountains! :-)
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Good morning Fedi friends and happy Saturday! ๐โ
File under: I'm such a clown sometimes. I did something extremely foolish yesterday (installation-wise) that bricked my whole YunoHost with Sharkey instance. This is not the fault of YunoHost or Sharkey, it's just me being the biggest airhead.
So this morning I nuked that VPS (Hetzner makes it so easy to start and stop) and, armed with a stopwatch, I wanted to see how long it would take me to order a new server, log in, install YunoHost and set up a main URL and a subdomain to log in.
I had this unique challenge that we're going hiking in the mountains so my time is very limited this morning.
How long did it take me? A grand total of 14 minutes.
The perks of being a fool is that you repeat the steps so many times that you go from being terrified (what do I have to do now?) to just sailing through the steps.
Time went like this:
1m30s: logged onto Hetzner, ordered a new server (Debian v12)
4m50s in: logged in, increased security, ran apt update and apt upgrade
5m in: installed YunoHost (thanks #curl)
7m30s in: with YunoHost successfully installed, I got into their beautiful graphical interface to continue the post install
9m30s in: post installation complete
11m 20s in: began tweaking DNS records for the main domain and the logging in subdomain, installed certificates, etc.
14m23s = all done, tripled checked that everything is working in incognito mode (it is) ๐ฅณโ
Wishing you all a great day. Time to go hiking for me and my fam ๐ปโ
#MySoCalledSudoLife #selfhosting๐ถโ hello darkness my old friend
๐ถ I've come to talk to you again
โ #Sharkey installation attempt no.2
๐คโ this time I took a snapshot before!
โบ๏ธโ let's hope it works out this time around -
@elena I hope you have an enjoyable day in the mountains! :-)
@EdwinG thanks it was really nice! in between the mountain this morning and a bike ride in the afternoon I've squeezed in a new Sharkey installation. All fingers crossed ๐ โ
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๐ถโ hello darkness my old friend
๐ถ I've come to talk to you again
โ #Sharkey installation attempt no.2
๐คโ this time I took a snapshot before!
โบ๏ธโ let's hope it works out this time around@elena good luck!
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@elena good luck!
@elena eh, how did it went?
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@elena eh, how did it went?
@jan same as last time: when I access the URL I briefly see the Sharkey logo but the page then is blank ๐ข
then I had the brilliant idea of adding /login/ to the URL and I see the instance but I cannot log in.
In the YunoHost logs I see that there should be an admin user called ยซย sharkey ยป although that doesnโt work.
I need to manually create the admin / first user and password in Terminal I think ๐ฅฒ
Everyone is still asleep in the house so I need to wait a little bit. Thanks for the encouragement though ๐
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@jan same as last time: when I access the URL I briefly see the Sharkey logo but the page then is blank ๐ข
then I had the brilliant idea of adding /login/ to the URL and I see the instance but I cannot log in.
In the YunoHost logs I see that there should be an admin user called ยซย sharkey ยป although that doesnโt work.
I need to manually create the admin / first user and password in Terminal I think ๐ฅฒ
Everyone is still asleep in the house so I need to wait a little bit. Thanks for the encouragement though ๐
@elena let me check on my Yunohost instance. ๐ Will try it if works for me. ๐ค
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@elena let me check on my Yunohost instance. ๐ Will try it if works for me. ๐ค
@elena installing...
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@elena installing...
@elena ok, first attempt draw my server in broken state - I wasn't able to ssh into it. Interesting. Need to uninstall and start again.
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@elena ok, first attempt draw my server in broken state - I wasn't able to ssh into it. Interesting. Need to uninstall and start again.
@jan I installed it twice and always get the blank pageโฆ I tried to ssh into my server but got a wrong password last night. Which is weird, I use a password manager. You think the two may be connected?
Thanks for looking into it ๐โค๏ธ
Iโll reset my VPS password in Hetzner console and take it from thereโฆ
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๐ถโ hello darkness my old friend
๐ถ I've come to talk to you again
โ #Sharkey installation attempt no.2
๐คโ this time I took a snapshot before!
โบ๏ธโ let's hope it works out this time around@elena Are you by any chance using Cloudflare for the DNS?
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@elena Are you by any chance using Cloudflare for the DNS?
@d1re_w0lf no... someone else I know also had issues with Sharkey... it's the first app packaged by YunoHost that is giving me such a headache. Usually the installation is seamless ๐ญโ