Comment on Yunohost frustrations of the beginner self hoster
Linyeir@slrpnk.net 1 year ago
I have been using yunohsot for ages now and i really do like it very much. I had little to no problems most of which i could solve myself. And if i couldnt, i found the time for answers in the forum were quite okay, considering that they are volunteering their time.
Yes, there are some limitations on packages and stuff, but the alternative is using docker and portainer and hours of fiddeling with configurations that i am just not able to invest.
If you could be specific about your problems maybe i could answer them and add them to the documentation.
schmorpel@slrpnk.net 1 year ago
There is so much that does work with Yunohost, and I wish I could just sort out the difficulties and not have to learn something more complex - it’s not justified for such a tiny use case.
First, I don’t understand if there’s a difference between admin user and the user I specify in the first setup, and how that related to file and folder access. If I want admin access over ssh, do I login as ‘firstuser@mydomain.com’ or as ‘admin@mydomain.com’?
Ultimately I’ve just looked into this admin stuff because I need SFTP access to my dokuwiki and can’t seem to get it to work. First user has access to a few folders, but not the ones dokuwiki actually is in. Trying to get access via SFTP, I managed to ruin my entire server yesterday thanks to playing with file permissions (and learned that changing file permissions in the command line = DANGER!)
Also, but less important unless I want a lot of wikis, I would like to run Dokuwiki in a farm setup (one Dokuwiki installation, several wikis). Same problem around file access, because I cannot create a directory for the animals.
The beauty of dokuwiki is it’s database free, simple to understand folder structure but if I cannot access it over SFTP there’s not really a point to it.