@selfhosted @_elena

DONE!!! FINALLY! Multi-site works, and fun can begin!

Our presentation page is up, and I’m impressed as the site seems super-fast. I won’t try activitypub at the moment, maybe next week.
Content for now, no visuals, it’s still the default WordPress theme; I’ll however continue using Gutenberg block editor for site design, sighted lady will help me with styles, sizes, colors, flags, logo. For now I have what I need: my best friend in POSITIVE (pun very intended) mood ☣️ and my intermediate web dev technical skills, let me build nav bar and HIV glossary before anything else, testing new multi-language echosystem.

Before starting involving the sighted designer I want the interface to work properly.

ENGLISH https://plusbrothers.net/english/about/

ITALIANO: https://plusbrothers.net/cosa-facciamo

Detail: I had to create a solo Nginx conf file to instruct it to accept main URL, placed on /etc/nginx/conf.d/plusbrothers.net.d/; I can’t deny or hide that for this, AI helped. And precisely, the Hostinger embedded chatbot, trained with main provider base configurations.

Unfortunately YunoHost has a limitation and wants WordPress to be installed into a subdirectory such as domain dot tld slash wp.

And leaving it as it is, with its /wp/ at the end of each content, would have generated 404 errors to folks searching for old posts. I wanted to have at least the presentation page published, within July 3rd - the day where New York Times in 1981 talked of HIV for the first time, identifying it as an untreatable disease affecting 41 homosexual men.

And the weird destiny is that my best friend, and content writer for this project, was born July 3rd 1975. 6 years later AIDS come out in the USA. He’s gay, and turned poz (HIV+) in 2013 due to a cheating partner.

#selfhosting #yunohost #wordpress

@selfhosted @_elena Success! WordPress works, SSL works, now I must wait reverse proxy (for mail) DNS propagation. Then the fun begins! #selfhosting #wordpress

@selfhosted @_elena Journey with self hosting, part 2.

I’m in the second phase of the experience. Domain transferred, DNS zone editor adjusted accordingly, letsencrypt set, YunoHost running “success!” in every aspect.

In a few hours, I’ll place WordPress multisite and try my new experiments on my VPS.

PlusBrothers, poz world, the Agony Ass, and Fernando the sentient virus, will come back home.
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@khleedril @selfhosted It is 25 years I work on web, I started this self-hosting experience on my personal website, through YunoHost, which is a web-based application manager. Users say terminal knowledge is not needed, but, well, it helps a lot!
I’m not a sysadmin, can’t manage a VPS from scratch. But I do my best to make things work.

@cybervseas I have learnt how to do it through YunoHost, I will transfer the pattern to the new domain - I’ve built nothing yet, regarding interface and posts. I want to have a working infrastructure before.