• Friendica
• Realm of Espionage
• https://social.realmofespionage.xyz

• https://wiki.friendi.ca/docs/bbcode

• Ubuntu Server
• nginx + PHP + PHP-FPM
• Certbot (Let's Encrypt)
• MariaDB

• https://friendi.ca/resources/requirements/
• https://wiki.friendi.ca/docs/install#requirements

sudo apt install composer php-curl php-gd php-gmp php-mbstring php-intl php-mysql php-zip

• https://github.com/friendica/friendica/commits/develop/

sudo git clone --branch 'develop' --depth '1' --recurse-submodules 'https://github.com/friendica/friendica.git' '/var/www/social' && sudo chown -R 'www-data':'www-data' '/var/www/social' && sudo chmod -R '0755' '/var/www/social'

• https://github.com/friendica/friendica-addons/commits/develop/
• Required for composer install even without any addons enabled

sudo git clone --branch 'develop' --depth '1' --recurse-submodules 'https://github.com/friendica/friendica-addons.git' '/var/www/social/addon' && sudo chown -R 'www-data':'www-data' '/var/www/social/addon' && sudo chmod -R '0755' '/var/www/social/addon'

sudo su 'www-data' -s '/bin/bash'

cd '/tmp' && '/usr/bin/composer' --working-dir='/var/www/social' --no-cache install --no-dev

exit

• 2025/12/22: git.friendi.ca requires authentication and fails during composer install
• #15340

nano '/var/www/social/composer.lock'

                "url": "https://github.com/digitalbazaar/php-json-ld.git",
                "reference": "fe18c3f2ce47f30ace904ef58e7416f933be25e1"

friendica/json-ld

            "name": "friendica/json-ld",
            "version": "1.1.4",
            "source": {
                "type": "git",
                "url": "https://github.com/digitalbazaar/php-json-ld.git",
                "reference": "fe18c3f2ce47f30ace904ef58e7416f933be25e1"
            },

sudo su 'www-data' -s '/bin/bash'

sed -i 's|https://git.friendi.ca/friendica/php-json-ld|https://github.com/digitalbazaar/php-json-ld.git|g' '/var/www/social/composer.lock'

sed -i 's/1f33c8766b5cfbecfbc2122238873debeed35fb6/fe18c3f2ce47f30ace904ef58e7416f933be25e1/g' '/var/www/social/composer.lock'

sudo mariadb

CREATE DATABASE friendica;

CREATE USER 'friendica'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'x';

GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON friendica.* to 'friendica'@'localhost';

FLUSH PRIVILEGES;EXIT;

sudo -e '/etc/php/8.4/fpm/pool.d/social.conf' && sudo systemctl restart 'php8.4-fpm'

[social]

; User/Group
user = "www-data"
group = "www-data"

; Socket
listen = "/run/php/social.sock"
listen.owner = "www-data"
listen.group = "www-data"
listen.mode = "0662"

; Process Management
pm = "ondemand"
pm.max_children = "4"
pm.process_idle_timeout = "30"

; Logging
php_value[log_errors] = "0"
php_value[error_reporting] = "~E_ALL"

; General
php_value[date.timezone] = "America/New_York"

; Friendica
php_value[max_execution_time] = "200"
php_value[memory_limit] = "512M"
php_value[post_max_size] = "10M"
php_value[upload_max_filesize] = "10M"
php_value[max_file_uploads] = "100"
php_value[register_argc_argv] = "On"

; End

sudo -e '/etc/nginx/snippets/social.conf'

location '~' '\.(php|phar)(/.*)?$' {

 fastcgi_split_path_info '^(.+\.(?:php|phar))(/.*)$';
 fastcgi_intercept_errors 'on';
 fastcgi_index 'index.php';
 include 'fastcgi_params';
 fastcgi_param 'SCRIPT_FILENAME' '$document_root$fastcgi_script_name';
 fastcgi_param 'PATH_INFO' '$fastcgi_path_info';
 fastcgi_param 'HTTPS' 'on';

 fastcgi_pass 'unix:/run/php/social.sock';

}

# End

• sites-enabled should be done after initialize

sudo -e '/etc/nginx/sites-available/social.conf'

server {

 listen '443' 'ssl';
 http2 'on';
 server_name 'social.realmofespionage.xyz';
 root '/var/www/social';
 index 'index.php';

 include '/etc/nginx/snippets/social.conf';
 include '/etc/nginx/snippets/headers.conf';

 client_max_body_size '10M';

# access_log '/var/log/nginx/social-access.log';
# error_log '/var/log/nginx/social-error.log';

 location '/' {
  try_files '$uri' '/index.php?pagename=$uri&$args';
 }

 location '^~' '/.well-known/' {
  allow 'all';
  rewrite '^' '/index.php?pagename=$uri';
 }

 location '~*' '\.(tpl|md|tgz|log|out)$' {
  deny 'all';
 }

 location '~' '/\.' {
  deny 'all';
 }

}

# End

sudo ln -s -f '/etc/nginx/sites-available/social.conf' '/etc/nginx/sites-enabled/social.conf' && sudo systemctl reload 'nginx'

• https://wiki.friendi.ca/docs/install#option_brun_the_automatic_install_script

• Change --dbpass, and --admin to email
• Might be able to use --file on manually-created local.config.php instead

sudo su 'www-data' -s '/bin/bash'

cd '/var/www/social' && '/var/www/social/bin/console' autoinstall --dbhost 'localhost' --dbport '3365' --dbdata 'friendica' --dbuser 'friendica' --url 'https://social.realmofespionage.xyz' --basepath '/var/www/social' --dbpass 'x' --admin 'x'

• https://social.realmofespionage.xyz/register
• Be sure the email matches what was used on the above command

• x is the nickname chosen at website registration

sudo su 'www-data' -s '/bin/bash'

cd '/var/www/social' && '/var/www/social/bin/console' user password 'x'

sudo su 'www-data' -s '/bin/bash'

cd '/var/www/social' && '/usr/bin/php' '/var/www/social/bin/console.php' config 'config' 'register_policy' '0'

sudo su 'www-data' -s '/bin/bash'

cd '/var/www/social' && '/usr/bin/php' '/var/www/social/bin/console.php' worker

cd '/var/www/social' && '/usr/bin/php' '/var/www/social/bin/console.php' dbstructure update --force

cd '/var/www/social' && '/usr/bin/php' '/var/www/social/bin/console.php' dbstructure drop --execute

cd '/var/www/social' && '/usr/bin/php' '/var/www/social/bin/console.php' postupdate

cd '/var/www/social' && '/usr/bin/php' '/var/www/social/bin/console.php' cache clear

cd '/var/www/social' && '/usr/bin/php' '/var/www/social/bin/console.php' clearavatarcache

cd '/var/www/social' && '/usr/bin/php' '/var/www/social/bin/console.php' config 'config' 'info' 'https://wiki.realmofespionage.xyz/servers:linux:nginx:friendica'

exit

• Navigation bar background color: 3d8bff
• Navigation bar icon color: ffffff
• Link color: 3d8bff
• Set the background color: dedede
• Login page background color: 484848

• Copy or paste schemestring:

{"nav_bg":"#3d8bff","nav_icon_color":"#ffffff","link_color":"#3d8bff","background_color":"#dedede","background_image":"","contentbg_transp":"100","login_bg_image":"","login_bg_color":"#484848"}

• Change database password and config admin_email

sudo -u 'www-data' -e '/var/www/social/config/local.config.php'

<?php

return [
        'database' => [
                'hostname' => 'localhost',
                'username' => 'friendica',
                'password' => 'x',
                'database' => 'friendica',
                'charset' => 'utf8mb4',
        ],

        'config' => [
                'php_path' => '/usr/bin/php',
                'admin_email' => 'espionage724@x',
                'sitename' => 'RoE | Social',
                'register_policy' => \Friendica\Module\Register::CLOSED,
                'max_import_size' => 200000,
        ],
        'system' => [
                'url' => 'https://social.realmofespionage.xyz',
                'basepath' => '/var/www/social',
                'default_timezone' => 'America/New_York',
                'language' => 'en',
        ],
];

// End

• Set email for both user.email

sudo mkdir -p '/etc/nginx/scripts/social' && sudo -e '/etc/nginx/scripts/social/git-fix.sh' && sudo chmod '0500' '/etc/nginx/scripts/social/git-fix.sh' && sudo chown 'www-data':'www-data' '/etc/nginx/scripts/social/git-fix.sh'

#!/bin/bash

cd '/tmp'

'/usr/bin/rm' -Rf '/var/www/social/.git'
'/usr/bin/git' -C '/var/www/social' init --initial-branch='develop'
'/usr/bin/git' -C '/var/www/social' add '.'

########################################
'/usr/bin/git' -C '/var/www/social' config 'user.email' 'espionage724@x'
########################################

'/usr/bin/git' -C '/var/www/social' commit --message='x'

'/usr/bin/git' -C '/var/www/social' remote add 'origin' 'https://github.com/friendica/friendica.git'
'/usr/bin/git' -C '/var/www/social' pull --depth '1' --recurse-submodules 'origin' 'develop' --rebase

'/usr/bin/git' -C '/var/www/social' reset --hard 'origin/develop'
'/usr/bin/git' -C '/var/www/social' gc --aggressive --prune='all'
'/usr/bin/git' -C '/var/www/social' fsck --full --strict

'/usr/bin/rm' -Rf '/var/www/social/addon/.git'
'/usr/bin/git' -C '/var/www/social/addon' init --initial-branch='develop'
'/usr/bin/git' -C '/var/www/social/addon' add '.'

########################################
'/usr/bin/git' -C '/var/www/social/addon' config 'user.email' 'espionage724@x'
########################################

'/usr/bin/git' -C '/var/www/social/addon' commit --message='x'

'/usr/bin/git' -C '/var/www/social/addon' remote add 'origin' 'https://github.com/friendica/friendica-addons.git'
'/usr/bin/git' -C '/var/www/social/addon' pull --depth '1' --recurse-submodules 'origin' 'develop' --rebase

'/usr/bin/git' -C '/var/www/social/addon' reset --hard 'origin/develop'
'/usr/bin/git' -C '/var/www/social/addon' gc --aggressive --prune='all'
'/usr/bin/git' -C '/var/www/social/addon' fsck --full --strict

# End

sudo -u 'www-data' '/etc/nginx/scripts/social/git-fix.sh'

sudo -e '/etc/systemd/system/social-d.service'

[Service]
User=www-data
Group=www-data
Type=oneshot

WorkingDirectory=/var/www/social

ExecStart='/usr/bin/php' '/var/www/social/bin/console.php' worker

# End

• https://wiki.friendi.ca/docs/install#required_background_tasks

• Every 10 minutes

sudo -e '/etc/systemd/system/social-d.timer' && sudo systemctl daemon-reload && sudo systemctl enable 'social-d.timer' --now && sudo systemctl start 'social-d' && sudo systemctl status 'social-d' -l

[Unit]
Description=Friendica Worker Daemon
After=network-online.target
Wants=network-online.target

[Timer]
OnBootSec=10m
OnUnitActiveSec=10m

[Install]
WantedBy=timers.target

# End

sudo -e '/etc/systemd/system/social-up.service'

[Service]
User=www-data
Group=www-data
Type=oneshot

WorkingDirectory=/var/www/social
Environment="COMPOSER_CACHE_DIR=/dev/null"

ExecStart='/usr/bin/git' -C '/var/www/social' reset --hard 'origin/develop'
ExecStart='/usr/bin/git' -C '/var/www/social' pull origin 'develop' --rebase

ExecStart='/usr/bin/git' -C '/var/www/social/addon' reset --hard 'origin/develop'
ExecStart='/usr/bin/git' -C '/var/www/social/addon' pull origin 'develop' --rebase

# Temp php-json-ld Fix (#15340)
ExecStart='/usr/bin/sed' -i 's|https://git.friendi.ca/friendica/php-json-ld|https://github.com/digitalbazaar/php-json-ld.git|g' '/var/www/social/composer.lock'
ExecStart='/usr/bin/sed' -i 's/1f33c8766b5cfbecfbc2122238873debeed35fb6/fe18c3f2ce47f30ace904ef58e7416f933be25e1/g' '/var/www/social/composer.lock'

ExecStart='/usr/bin/composer' --working-dir='/var/www/social' --no-cache install --no-dev

ExecStart='/usr/bin/php' '/var/www/social/bin/console.php' dbstructure update --force
ExecStart='/usr/bin/php' '/var/www/social/bin/console.php' dbstructure drop --execute

ExecStartPost='/usr/bin/php' '/var/www/social/bin/console.php' postupdate
ExecStartPost='/usr/bin/sync'

# End

• Daily 04:00:00 AM

sudo -e '/etc/systemd/system/social-up.timer' && sudo systemctl daemon-reload && sudo systemctl enable 'social-up.timer' --now && sudo systemctl start 'social-up' && sudo systemctl status 'social-up' -l

[Unit]
Description=Friendica Git Updater
After=network-online.target
Wants=network-online.target

[Timer]
OnCalendar=*-*-* 04:00:00
Persistent=true

[Install]
WantedBy=timers.target

# End

mkdir -p ~/'backups' && sudo -e '/etc/systemd/system/social-fb.service' && sudo sed -i 's/CHANGEME/'$USER'/g' '/etc/systemd/system/social-fb.service'

[Service]
Type=oneshot

WorkingDirectory=/var/www/social

ExecStart='/usr/bin/bash' -c '"/usr/bin/tar" -czf "/home/CHANGEME/backups/friendica-files-auto-"$$(date +%%Y-%%m-%%d)".tar.gz" -C "/var/www" "social"'

ExecStartPost='/usr/bin/sync'

# End

• Monthly (5th) 04:15:00 AM

sudo -e '/etc/systemd/system/social-fb.timer' && sudo systemctl daemon-reload && sudo systemctl enable 'social-fb.timer' --now

[Unit]
Description=Friendica Files Backup

[Timer]
OnCalendar=*-*-05 04:15:00
Persistent=true

[Install]
WantedBy=timers.target

# End

sudo systemctl start 'social-fb' && sudo systemctl status 'social-fb' -l

sudo mkdir -p '/var/lib/mysql/auth' && sudo -e '/var/lib/mysql/auth/friendica' && sudo chown 'mysql':'mysql' '/var/lib/mysql/auth/friendica' && sudo chmod '0600' '/var/lib/mysql/auth/friendica'

[mariadb-dump]
user=friendica
password=x

# End

mkdir -p ~/'backups' && sudo mkdir -p '/var/lib/mysql/tmp' && sudo -e '/etc/systemd/system/social-db.service' && sudo sed -i 's/'CHANGEME'/'$USER'/g' '/etc/systemd/system/social-db.service'

[Service]
Group=mysql
Type=oneshot

WorkingDirectory=/var/lib/mysql

ExecStart='/usr/bin/bash' -c '"/usr/bin/mariadb-dump" --defaults-extra-file="/var/lib/mysql/auth/friendica" --single-transaction --quick "friendica" -r "/home/CHANGEME/backups/friendica-database-auto-"$$(date +%%Y-%%m-%%d)".sql"'

ExecStartPost='/usr/bin/sync'

# End

• Monthly (5th) 04:10:00 AM

sudo -e '/etc/systemd/system/social-db.timer' && sudo systemctl daemon-reload && sudo systemctl enable 'social-db.timer' --now && sudo systemctl start 'social-db' && sudo systemctl status 'social-db' -l

[Unit]
Description=Friendica Database Backup
After=mariadb.service

[Timer]
OnCalendar=*-*-05 04:10:00
Persistent=true

[Install]
WantedBy=timers.target

# End

sudo -e '/etc/systemd/system/social-m.service'

[Service]
User=www-data
Group=www-data
Type=oneshot

WorkingDirectory=/var/www/social

ExecStart='/usr/bin/git' -C '/var/www/social' gc --aggressive --prune='all'
ExecStart='/usr/bin/git' -C '/var/www/social' fsck --full --strict

ExecStart='/usr/bin/git' -C '/var/www/social/addon' gc --aggressive --prune='all'
ExecStart='/usr/bin/git' -C '/var/www/social/addon' fsck --full --strict

ExecStart='/usr/bin/php' '/var/www/social/bin/console.php' cache clear
ExecStart='/usr/bin/php' '/var/www/social/bin/console.php' clearavatarcache

ExecStartPost='/usr/bin/sync'

# End

• Monthly (5th) 04:30:00 AM

sudo -e '/etc/systemd/system/social-m.timer' && sudo systemctl daemon-reload && sudo systemctl enable 'social-m.timer' --now

[Unit]
Description=Friendica Maintenance
After=network-online.target
Wants=network-online.target

[Timer]
OnCalendar=*-*-05 04:30:00
Persistent=true

[Install]
WantedBy=timers.target

# End

sudo systemctl start 'social-m' && sudo systemctl status 'social-m' -l

sudo tar -czf ~/'friendica-files-manual-'$(date +%Y-%m-%d)'.tar.gz' -C '/var/www' 'social'

sudo mariadb-dump --single-transaction --quick 'friendica' -r ~/'friendica-database-manual-'$(date +%Y-%m-%d)'.sql'

scp espionage724@192.168.1.152:~/'friendica-files-'*'.tar.gz' ~/'Downloads'

scp espionage724@192.168.1.152:~/'friendica-database-'*'.sql' ~/'Downloads'

scp ~/'Downloads/friendica-files-'*'.tar.gz' espionage724@192.168.1.152:~

scp ~/'Downloads/friendica'*'.sql' espionage724@192.168.1.152:~

sudo systemctl stop 'nginx'

ls ~/'friendica-files-'*'.tar.gz' && sudo rm -Rf '/var/www/social'

sudo tar -xzf ~/'friendica-files-'*'.tar.gz' -C '/var/www' 'social' && sudo chown -R 'www-data':'www-data' '/var/www/social' && sudo chmod -R '0755' '/var/www/social'

• Set email for user.email
• Requires Etc commands afterwards ¹⁾

sudo su 'www-data' -s '/bin/bash'

rm -Rf '/var/www/social/.git'

git -C '/var/www/social' init --initial-branch='develop'

git -C '/var/www/social' add '.'

git -C '/var/www/social' config 'user.email' 'espionage724@x'

git -C '/var/www/social' commit --message='x'

git -C '/var/www/social' remote add 'origin' 'https://github.com/friendica/friendica.git'

git -C '/var/www/social' pull --depth '1' --recurse-submodules 'origin' 'develop' --rebase

git -C '/var/www/social' reset --hard 'origin/develop'

git -C '/var/www/social' gc --aggressive --prune='all'

git -C '/var/www/social' fsck --full --strict

• Set email for user.email

rm -Rf '/var/www/social/addon/.git'

git -C '/var/www/social/addon' init --initial-branch='develop'

git -C '/var/www/social/addon' add '.'

git -C '/var/www/social/addon' config 'user.email' 'espionage724@x'

git -C '/var/www/social/addon' commit --message='x'

git -C '/var/www/social/addon' remote add 'origin' 'https://github.com/friendica/friendica-addons.git'

git -C '/var/www/social/addon' pull --depth '1' --recurse-submodules 'origin' 'develop' --rebase

git -C '/var/www/social/addon' reset --hard 'origin/develop'

git -C '/var/www/social/addon' gc --aggressive --prune='all'

git -C '/var/www/social/addon' fsck --full --strict

exit

sudo -u 'www-data' -e '/var/www/social/config/local.config.php'

	'database' => [
		'hostname' => 'localhost',

	'system' => [
		'basepath' => '/var/www/social',

• Initial set-up

sudo mariadb --execute='DROP DATABASE friendica;'

sudo mariadb --execute='CREATE DATABASE friendica;'

sudo mariadb 'friendica' < ~/'friendica'*'.sql'

sudo systemctl start 'nginx'

rm -fv ~/'friendica-files-'*'.tar.gz' ~/'friendica'*'.sql'

sudo su 'www-data' -s '/bin/bash'

cd '/var/www/social' && '/usr/bin/php' '/var/www/social/bin/console.php' -h

sudo su 'www-data' -s '/bin/bash'

cd '/var/www/social' && '/usr/bin/php' '/var/www/social/bin/console.php' config