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Plugin Development
=======================
SamplePlugin.php
-----------------------
Each plugin requires a main class to interact with the GNU social system.
The main class usually extends the Plugin class that comes with GNU social.
The class has standard-named methods that will be called when certain events
happen in the code base. These methods have names like 'onX' where X is an
event name (see EVENTS.txt for the list of available events). Event handlers
have pre-defined arguments, based on which event they're handling. A typical
event handler:
```php
function onSomeEvent($paramA, &$paramB)
{
if ($paramA == 'jed') {
throw new Exception(sprintf(_m("Invalid parameter %s"), $paramA));
}
$paramB = 'spock';
return true;
}
```
Event Handlers
-----------------------
Event handlers must return a Boolean value.
If they return false, all other event handlers for this event (in other plug-in)
will be skipped, and in some cases the default processing for that event would
be skipped. This is great for replacing the default action of an event.
If the handler returns true, processing of other event handlers and the default
processing will continue. This is great for extending existing functionality.
If the handler throws an exception, processing will stop, and the exception's
error will be shown to the user.
Installation
------------------
To install a plugin (like this one), site admins add the following code to their
config.php file:
```php
addPlugin('Sample');
```
Plugins must be installed in one of the following directories:
* local/plugins/{$pluginclass}.php
* local/plugins/{$name}/{$pluginclass}.php
* local/{$pluginclass}.php
* local/{$name}/{$pluginclass}.php
* plugins/{$pluginclass}.php
* plugins/{$name}/{$pluginclass}.php
Here, `{$name}` is the name of the plugin, like 'Sample', and `{$pluginclass}`
is the name of the main class, like 'SamplePlugin'. Plugins that are part of
the main GNU social distribution go in 'plugins' and third-party or local ones
go in 'local'.
Simple plugins can be implemented as a single module. Others are more complex
and require additional modules; these should use their own directory, like
'local/plugins/{$name}/'. All files related to the plugin, including images,
JavaScript, CSS, external libraries or PHP modules should go in the plugin
directory.
Plugin Configuration
------------------
Plugins are configured using public instance attributes. To set their values,
site administrators use this syntax:
```php
addPlugin('Sample', ('attr1' => 'foo', 'attr2' => 'bar'));
```
The same plugin class can be initialized multiple times with different arguments:
```php
addPlugin('EmailNotify', array('sendTo' => 'evan@status.net'));
addPlugin('EmailNotify', array('sendTo' => 'brionv@status.net'));
```
```php
class SamplePlugin extends Plugin
{
public $attr1 = null;
public $attr2 = null;
}
```
Initialization
------------------
Plugins overload this method to do any initialization they need, like connecting
to remote servers or creating paths or so on. @return boolean hook value; true
means continue processing, false means stop.
```php
function initialize()
{
return true;
}
```
Clean Up
------------------
Plugins overload this method to do any cleanup they need, like disconnecting from
remote servers or deleting temp files or so on.
```php
function cleanup()
{
return true;
}
```
Database schema setup
------------------
Plugins can add their own tables to the GNU social database. Plugins should use
GNU social's schema interface to add or delete tables. The ensureTable() method
provides an easy way to ensure a table's structure and availability.
By default, the schema is checked every time GNU social is run (say, when a Web
page is hit). Admins can configure their systems to only check the schema when
the checkschema.php script is run, greatly improving performance. However, they
need to remember to run that script after installing or upgrading a plugin!
```php
function onCheckSchema()
{
$schema = Schema::get();
// '''For storing user-submitted flags on profiles'''
$schema->ensureTable('user_greeting_count',
array(new ColumnDef('user_id', 'integer', null,
true, 'PRI'),
new ColumnDef('greeting_count', 'integer')));
return true;
}
```
Load related modules when needed
------------------
Most non-trivial plugins will require extra modules to do their work. Typically
these include data classes, action classes, widget classes, or external libraries.
This method receives a class name and loads the PHP file related to that class.
By tradition, action classes typically have files named for the action, all
lower-case. Data classes are in files with the data class name, initial letter
capitalized.
Note that this method will be called for *all* overloaded classes, not just ones
in this plugin! So, make sure to return true by default to let other plugins,
and the core code, get a chance.
```php
function onAutoload($cls)
{
$dir = dirname(__FILE__);
switch ($cls)
{
case 'HelloAction':
include_once $dir . '/' . strtolower(mb_substr($cls, 0, -6)) . '.php';
return false;
case 'User_greeting_count':
include_once $dir . '/'.$cls.'.php';
return false;
default:
return true;
}
}
```
Map URLs to actions
------------------
This event handler lets the plugin map URLs on the site to actions (and thus an
action handler class). Note that the action handler class for an action will be
named 'FoobarAction', where action = 'foobar'. The class must be loaded in the
onAutoload() method.
```php
function onRouterInitialized($m)
{
$m->connect('main/hello',
array('action' => 'hello'));
return true;
}
```
Modify the default menu to link to our custom action
------------------
Using event handlers, it's possible to modify the default UI for pages almost
without limit. In this method, we add a menu item to the default primary menu
for the interface to link to our action.
Action Class
------------------
The Action class provides a rich set of events to hook, as well as output methods.
```php
function onEndPrimaryNav($action)
{
// '''common_local_url()''' gets the correct URL for the action name we provide
$action->menuItem(common_local_url('hello'),
_m('Hello'), _m('A warm greeting'), false, 'nav_hello');
return true;
}
function onPluginVersion(&$versions)
{
$versions[] = array('name' => 'Sample',
'version' => STATUSNET_VERSION,
'author' => 'Brion Vibber, Evan Prodromou',
'homepage' => 'http://example.org/plugin',
'rawdescription' =>
_m('A sample plugin to show basics of development for new hackers.'));
return true;
}
```
hello.php
------------------
This section is taken directly from the 'hello.php'. ( plugins/Sample/hello.php )
Give a warm greeting to our friendly user.
This sample action shows some basic ways of doing output in an action class.
Action classes have several output methods that they override from the parent class.
```php
class HelloAction extends Action
{
var $user = null;
var $gc = null;
}
```
Take arguments for running
------------------
This method is called first, and it lets the action class get all its arguments
and validate them. It's also the time to fetch any relevant data from the database.
Action classes should run parent::prepare(array $args = []) as the first line
of this method to make sure the default argument-processing happens.
```php
function prepare(array $args = [])
{
parent::prepare($args);
$this->user = common_current_user();
if (!empty($this->user)) {
$this->gc = User_greeting_count::inc($this->user->id);
}
return true;
}
```
Handle request
------------------
This is the main method for handling a request. Note that most preparation
should be done in the prepare() method; by the time handle() is called the
action should be more or less ready to go.
```php
function handle()
{
parent::handle();
$this->showPage();
}
```
Title of this page
------------------
Override this method to show a custom title.
```php
function title()
{
if (empty($this->user)) {
return _m('Hello');
} else {
return sprintf(_m('Hello, %s'), $this->user->nickname);
}
}
```
Show content in the content area
------------------
The default GNU social page has a lot of decorations: menus, logos, tabs, all
that jazz. This method is used to show content in the content area of the
page; it's the main thing you want to overload. This method also demonstrates
use of a plural localized string.
```php
function showContent()
{
if (empty($this->user)) {
$this->element('p', array('class' => 'greeting'),
_m('Hello, stranger!'));
} else {
$this->element('p', array('class' => 'greeting'),
sprintf(_m('Hello, %s'), $this->user->nickname));
$this->element('p', array('class' => 'greeting_count'),
sprintf(_m('I have greeted you %d time.',
'I have greeted you %d times.',
$this->gc->greeting_count),
$this->gc->greeting_count));
}
}
```
Return true if read only.
------------------
Some actions only read from the database; others read and write. The simple
database load-balancer built into GNU social will direct read-only actions to
database mirrors (if they are configured) and read-write actions to the master database.
This defaults to false to avoid data integrity issues, but you should make sure
to overload it for performance gains.
```php
function isReadOnly($args)
{
return false;
}
```

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Configuration options
=====================
The main configuration file for StatusNet (excepting configurations for
dependency software) is config.php in your StatusNet directory. If you
edit any other file in the directory, like lib/default.php (where most
of the defaults are defined), you will lose your configuration options
in any upgrade, and you will wish that you had been more careful.
Starting with version 0.9.0, a Web based configuration panel has been
added to StatusNet. The preferred method for changing config options is
to use this panel.
A command-line script, setconfig.php, can be used to set individual
configuration options. It's in the scripts/ directory.
Starting with version 0.7.1, you can put config files in the
/etc/statusnet/ directory on your server, if it exists. Config files
will be included in this order:
* /etc/statusnet/statusnet.php - server-wide config
* /etc/statusnet/<servername>.php - for a virtual host
* /etc/statusnet/<servername>_<pathname>.php - for a path
* INSTALLDIR/config.php - for a particular implementation
Almost all configuration options are made through a two-dimensional
associative array, cleverly named $config. A typical configuration
line will be:
$config['section']['option'] = value;
For brevity, the following documentation describes each section and
option.
site
----
This section is a catch-all for site-wide variables.
name: the name of your site, like 'YourCompany Microblog'.
server: the server part of your site's URLs, like 'example.net'.
path: The path part of your site's URLs, like 'statusnet' or ''
(installed in root).
fancy: whether or not your site uses fancy URLs (see Fancy URLs
section above). Default is false.
logfile: full path to a file for StatusNet to save logging
information to. You may want to use this if you don't have
access to syslog.
logdebug: whether to log additional debug info like backtraces on
hard errors. Default false.
locale_path: full path to the directory for locale data. Unless you
store all your locale data in one place, you probably
don't need to use this.
language: default language for your site. Defaults to US English.
Note that this is overridden if a user is logged in and has
selected a different language. It is also overridden if the
user is NOT logged in, but their browser requests a different
langauge. Since pretty much everybody's browser requests a
language, that means that changing this setting has little or
no effect in practice.
languages: A list of languages supported on your site. Typically you'd
only change this if you wanted to disable support for one
or another language:
"unset($config['site']['languages']['de'])" will disable
support for German.
theme: Theme for your site (see Theme section). Two themes are
provided by default: 'default' and 'stoica' (the one used by
Identi.ca). It's appreciated if you don't use the 'stoica' theme
except as the basis for your own.
email: contact email address for your site. By default, it's extracted
from your Web server environment; you may want to customize it.
broughtbyurl: name of an organization or individual who provides the
service. Each page will include a link to this name in the
footer. A good way to link to the blog, forum, wiki,
corporate portal, or whoever is making the service available.
broughtby: text used for the "brought by" link.
timezone: default timezone for message display. Users can set their
own time zone. Defaults to 'UTC', which is a pretty good default.
closed: If set to 'true', will disallow registration on your site.
This is a cheap way to restrict accounts to only one
individual or group; just register the accounts you want on
the service, *then* set this variable to 'true'.
inviteonly: If set to 'true', will only allow registration if the user
was invited by an existing user.
private: If set to 'true', anonymous users will be redirected to the
'login' page. Also, API methods that normally require no
authentication will require it. Note that this does not turn
off registration; use 'closed' or 'inviteonly' for the
behaviour you want.
notice: A plain string that will appear on every page. A good place
to put introductory information about your service, or info about
upgrades and outages, or other community info. Any HTML will
be escaped.
logo: URL of an image file to use as the logo for the site. Overrides
the logo in the theme, if any.
ssllogo: URL of an image file to use as the logo on SSL pages. If unset,
theme logo is used instead.
ssl: Whether to use SSL and https:// URLs for some or all pages.
Possible values are 'always' (use it for all pages), 'never'
(don't use it for any pages), or 'sometimes' (use it for
sensitive pages that include passwords like login and registration,
but not for regular pages). Default to 'never'.
sslproxy: Whether to force GNUsocial to think it is HTTPS when the
server gives no such information. I.e. when you're using a reverse
proxy that adds the encryption layer but the webserver that runs PHP
isn't configured with a key and certificate.
sslserver: use an alternate server name for SSL URLs, like
'secure.example.org'. You should be careful to set cookie
parameters correctly so that both the SSL server and the
"normal" server can access the session cookie and
preferably other cookies as well.
shorturllength: ignored. See 'url' section below.
dupelimit: minimum time allowed for one person to say the same thing
twice. Default 60s. Anything lower is considered a user
or UI error.
textlimit: default max size for texts in the site. Defaults to 0 (no limit).
Can be fine-tuned for notices, messages, profile bios and group descriptions.
db
--
This section is a reference to the configuration options for
DB_DataObject (see
<http://pear.php.net/manual/en/package.database.db-dataobject.intro-configuration.php>).
The ones that you may want to set are listed below for clarity.
database: a DSN (Data Source Name) for your StatusNet database. This is
in the format 'protocol://username:password@hostname/databasename',
where 'protocol' is 'mysql' or 'mysqli' (or possibly 'postgresql', if you
really know what you're doing), 'username' is the username,
'password' is the password, and etc.
ini_yourdbname: if your database is not named 'statusnet', you'll need
to set this to point to the location of the
statusnet.ini file. Note that the real name of your database
should go in there, not literally 'yourdbname'.
db_driver: You can try changing this to 'MDB2' to use the other driver
type for DB_DataObject, but note that it breaks the OpenID
libraries, which only support PEAR::DB.
debug: On a database error, you may get a message saying to set this
value to 5 to see debug messages in the browser. This breaks
just about all pages, and will also expose the username and
password
quote_identifiers: Set this to true if you're using postgresql.
type: either 'mysql' or 'postgresql' (used for some bits of
database-type-specific SQL in the code). Defaults to mysql.
mirror: you can set this to an array of DSNs, like the above
'database' value. If it's set, certain read-only actions will
use a random value out of this array for the database, rather
than the one in 'database' (actually, 'database' is overwritten).
You can offload a busy DB server by setting up MySQL replication
and adding the slaves to this array. Note that if you want some
requests to go to the 'database' (master) server, you'll need
to include it in this array, too.
utf8: whether to talk to the database in UTF-8 mode. This is the default
with new installations, but older sites may want to turn it off
until they get their databases fixed up. See "UTF-8 database"
above for details.
schemacheck: when to let plugins check the database schema to add
tables or update them. Values can be 'runtime' (default)
or 'script'. 'runtime' can be costly (plugins check the
schema on every hit, adding potentially several db
queries, some quite long), but not everyone knows how to
run a script. If you can, set this to 'script' and run
scripts/checkschema.php whenever you install or upgrade a
plugin.
syslog
------
By default, StatusNet sites log error messages to the syslog facility.
(You can override this using the 'logfile' parameter described above).
appname: The name that StatusNet uses to log messages. By default it's
"statusnet", but if you have more than one installation on the
server, you may want to change the name for each instance so
you can track log messages more easily.
priority: level to log at. Currently ignored.
facility: what syslog facility to used. Defaults to LOG_USER, only
reset if you know what syslog is and have a good reason
to change it.
queue
-----
You can configure the software to queue time-consuming tasks, like
sending out SMS email or XMPP messages, for off-line processing. See
'Queues and daemons' above for how to set this up.
enabled: Whether to uses queues. Defaults to false.
daemon: Wather to use queuedaemon. Defaults to false, which means
you'll use OpportunisticQM plugin.
subsystem: Which kind of queueserver to use. Values include "db" for
our hacked-together database queuing (no other server
required) and "stomp" for a stomp server.
stomp_server: "broker URI" for stomp server. Something like
"tcp://hostname:61613". More complicated ones are
possible; see your stomp server's documentation for
details.
queue_basename: a root name to use for queues (stomp only). Typically
something like '/queue/sitename/' makes sense. If running
multiple instances on the same server, make sure that
either this setting or $config['site']['nickname'] are
unique for each site to keep them separate.
stomp_username: username for connecting to the stomp server; defaults
to null.
stomp_password: password for connecting to the stomp server; defaults
to null.
stomp_persistent: keep items across queue server restart, if enabled.
Under ActiveMQ, the server configuration determines if and how
persistent storage is actually saved.
If using a message queue server other than ActiveMQ, you may
need to disable this if it does not support persistence.
stomp_transactions: use transactions to aid in error detection.
A broken transaction will be seen quickly, allowing a message
to be redelivered immediately if a daemon crashes.
If using a message queue server other than ActiveMQ, you may
need to disable this if it does not support transactions.
stomp_acks: send acknowledgements to aid in flow control.
An acknowledgement of successful processing tells the server
we're ready for more and can help keep things moving smoothly.
This should *not* be turned off when running with ActiveMQ, but
if using another message queue server that does not support
acknowledgements you might need to disable this.
softlimit: an absolute or relative "soft memory limit"; daemons will
restart themselves gracefully when they find they've hit
this amount of memory usage. Defaults to 90% of PHP's global
memory_limit setting.
inboxes: delivery of messages to receiver's inboxes can be delayed to
queue time for best interactive performance on the sender.
This may however be annoyingly slow when using the DB queues,
so you can set this to false if it's causing trouble.
breakout: for stomp, individual queues are by default grouped up for
best scalability. If some need to be run by separate daemons,
etc they can be manually adjusted here.
Default will share all queues for all sites within each group.
Specify as <group>/<queue> or <group>/<queue>/<site>,
using nickname identifier as site.
'main/distrib' separate "distrib" queue covering all sites
'xmpp/xmppout/mysite' separate "xmppout" queue covering just 'mysite'
max_retries: for stomp, drop messages after N failed attempts to process.
Defaults to 10.
dead_letter_dir: for stomp, optional directory to dump data on failed
queue processing events after discarding them.
stomp_no_transactions: for stomp, the server does not support transactions,
so do not try to user them. This is needed for http://www.morbidq.com/.
stomp_no_acks: for stomp, the server does not support acknowledgements.
so do not try to user them. This is needed for http://www.morbidq.com/.
license
-------
The default license to use for your users notices. The default is the
Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 license, which is probably the right
choice for any public site. Note that some other servers will not
accept notices if you apply a stricter license than this.
type: one of 'cc' (for Creative Commons licenses), 'allrightsreserved'
(default copyright), or 'private' (for private and confidential
information).
owner: for 'allrightsreserved' or 'private', an assigned copyright
holder (for example, an employer for a private site). If
not specified, will be attributed to 'contributors'.
url: URL of the license, used for links.
title: Title for the license, like 'Creative Commons Attribution 3.0'.
image: A button shown on each page for the license.
mail
----
This is for configuring out-going email. We use PEAR's Mail module,
see: http://pear.php.net/manual/en/package.mail.mail.factory.php
backend: the backend to use for mail, one of 'mail', 'sendmail', and
'smtp'. Defaults to PEAR's default, 'mail'.
params: if the mail backend requires any parameters, you can provide
them in an associative array.
nickname
--------
This is for configuring nicknames in the service.
blacklist: an array of strings for usernames that may not be
registered. A default array exists for strings that are
used by StatusNet (e.g. 'doc', 'main', 'avatar', 'theme')
but you may want to add others if you have other software
installed in a subdirectory of StatusNet or if you just
don't want certain words used as usernames.
featured: an array of nicknames of 'featured' users of the site.
Can be useful to draw attention to well-known users, or
interesting people, or whatever.
avatar
------
For configuring avatar access.
dir: Directory to look for avatar files and to put them into.
Defaults to avatar subdirectory of install directory; if
you change it, make sure to change path, too.
path: Path to avatars. Defaults to path for avatar subdirectory,
but you can change it if you wish. Note that this will
be included with the avatar server, too.
server: If set, defines another server where avatars are stored in the
root directory. Note that the 'avatar' subdir still has to be
writeable. You'd typically use this to split HTTP requests on
the client to speed up page loading, either with another
virtual server or with an NFS or SAMBA share. Clients
typically only make 2 connections to a single server at a
time <https://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec8.html#sec8.1.4>,
so this can parallelize the job. Defaults to null.
ssl: Whether to access avatars using HTTPS. Defaults to null, meaning
to guess based on site-wide SSL settings.
public
------
For configuring the public stream.
localonly: If set to true, only messages posted by users of this
service (rather than other services, filtered through OStatus)
are shown in the public stream. Default true.
blacklist: An array of IDs of users to hide from the public stream.
Useful if you have someone making excessive Twitterfeed posts
to the site, other kinds of automated posts, testing bots, etc.
autosource: Sources of notices that are from automatic posters, and thus
should be kept off the public timeline. Default empty.
theme
-----
server: Like avatars, you can speed up page loading by pointing the
theme file lookup to another server (virtual or real).
Defaults to NULL, meaning to use the site server.
dir: Directory where theme files are stored. Used to determine
whether to show parts of a theme file. Defaults to the theme
subdirectory of the install directory.
path: Path part of theme URLs, before the theme name. Relative to the
theme server. It may make sense to change this path when upgrading,
(using version numbers as the path) to make sure that all files are
reloaded by caching clients or proxies. Defaults to null,
which means to use the site path + '/theme'.
ssl: Whether to use SSL for theme elements. Default is null, which means
guess based on site SSL settings.
sslserver: SSL server to use when page is HTTPS-encrypted. If
unspecified, site ssl server and so on will be used.
sslpath: If sslserver if defined, path to use when page is HTTPS-encrypted.
javascript
----------
server: You can speed up page loading by pointing the
theme file lookup to another server (virtual or real).
Defaults to NULL, meaning to use the site server.
path: Path part of Javascript URLs. Defaults to null,
which means to use the site path + '/js/'.
ssl: Whether to use SSL for JavaScript files. Default is null, which means
guess based on site SSL settings.
sslserver: SSL server to use when page is HTTPS-encrypted. If
unspecified, site ssl server and so on will be used.
sslpath: If sslserver if defined, path to use when page is HTTPS-encrypted.
bustframes: If true, all web pages will break out of framesets. If false,
can comfortably live in a frame or iframe... probably. Default
to true.
xmpp
----
For configuring the XMPP sub-system.
enabled: Whether to accept and send messages by XMPP. Default false.
server: server part of XMPP ID for update user.
port: connection port for clients. Default 5222, which you probably
shouldn't need to change.
user: username for the client connection. Users will receive messages
from 'user'@'server'.
resource: a unique identifier for the connection to the server. This
is actually used as a prefix for each XMPP component in the system.
password: password for the user account.
host: some XMPP domains are served by machines with a different
hostname. Set this to the correct hostname if that's the
case with your server.
encryption: Whether to encrypt the connection between StatusNet and the
XMPP server. Defaults to true, but you can get
considerably better performance turning it off if you're
connecting to a server on the same machine or on a
protected network.
debug: if turned on, this will make the XMPP library blurt out all of
the incoming and outgoing messages as XML stanzas. Use as a
last resort, and never turn it on if you don't have queues
enabled, since it will spit out sensitive data to the browser.
public: an array of JIDs to send _all_ notices to. This is useful for
participating in third-party search and archiving services.
invite
------
For configuring invites.
enabled: Whether to allow users to send invites. Default true.
tag
---
Miscellaneous tagging stuff.
dropoff: Decay factor for tag listing, in seconds.
Defaults to exponential decay over ten days; you can twiddle
with it to try and get better results for your site.
popular
-------
Settings for the "popular" section of the site.
dropoff: Decay factor for popularity listing, in seconds.
Defaults to exponential decay over ten days; you can twiddle
with it to try and get better results for your site.
daemon
------
For daemon processes.
piddir: directory that daemon processes should write their PID file
(process ID) to. Defaults to /var/run/, which is where this
stuff should usually go on Unix-ish systems.
user: If set, the daemons will try to change their effective user ID
to this user before running. Probably a good idea, especially if
you start the daemons as root. Note: user name, like 'daemon',
not 1001.
group: If set, the daemons will try to change their effective group ID
to this named group. Again, a name, not a numerical ID.
emailpost
---------
For post-by-email.
enabled: Whether to enable post-by-email. Defaults to true. You will
also need to set up maildaemon.php.
sms
---
For SMS integration.
enabled: Whether to enable SMS integration. Defaults to true. Queues
should also be enabled.
integration
-----------
A catch-all for integration with other systems.
taguri: base for tag:// URIs. Defaults to site-server + ',2009'.
inboxes
-------
For notice inboxes.
enabled: No longer used. If you set this to something other than true,
StatusNet will no longer run.
throttle
--------
For notice-posting throttles.
enabled: Whether to throttle posting. Defaults to false.
count: Each user can make this many posts in 'timespan' seconds. So, if count
is 100 and timespan is 3600, then there can be only 100 posts
from a user every hour.
timespan: see 'count'.
profile
-------
Profile management.
biolimit: max character length of bio; 0 means no limit; null means to use
the site text limit default.
backup: whether users can backup their own profiles. Defaults to false.
restore: whether users can restore their profiles from backup files. Defaults
to false.
delete: whether users can delete their own accounts. Defaults to false.
move: whether users can move their accounts to another server. Defaults
to true.
newuser
-------
Options with new users.
default: nickname of a user account to automatically subscribe new
users to. Typically this would be system account for e.g.
service updates or announcements. Users are able to unsub
if they want. Default is null; no auto subscribe.
welcome: nickname of a user account that sends welcome messages to new
users. Can be the same as 'default' account, although on
busy servers it may be a good idea to keep that one just for
'urgent' messages. Default is null; no message.
If either of these special user accounts are specified, the users should
be created before the configuration is updated.
attachments
-----------
The software lets users upload files with their notices. You can configure
the types of accepted files by mime types and a trio of quota options:
per file, per user (total), per user per month.
We suggest the use of the pecl file_info extension to handle mime type
detection.
supported: an array of mime types you accept to store and distribute,
like 'image/gif', 'video/mpeg', 'audio/mpeg', etc. Make sure you
setup your server to properly recognize the types you want to
support.
uploads: false to disable uploading files with notices (true by default).
For quotas, be sure you've set the upload_max_filesize and post_max_size
in php.ini to be large enough to handle your upload. In httpd.conf
(if you're using apache), check that the LimitRequestBody directive isn't
set too low (it's optional, so it may not be there at all).
process_links: follow redirects and save all available file information
(mimetype, date, size, oembed, etc.). Defaults to true.
file_quota: maximum size for a single file upload in bytes. A user can send
any amount of notices with attachments as long as each attachment
is smaller than file_quota.
user_quota: total size in bytes a user can store on this server. Each user
can store any number of files as long as their total size does
not exceed the user_quota.
monthly_quota: total size permitted in the current month. This is the total
size in bytes that a user can upload each month.
dir: directory accessible to the Web process where uploads should go.
Defaults to the 'file' subdirectory of the install directory, which
should be writeable by the Web user.
server: server name to use when creating URLs for uploaded files.
Defaults to null, meaning to use the default Web server. Using
a virtual server here can speed up Web performance.
path: URL path, relative to the server, to find files. Defaults to
main path + '/file/'.
ssl: whether to use HTTPS for file URLs. Defaults to null, meaning to
guess based on other SSL settings.
sslserver: if specified, this server will be used when creating HTTPS
URLs. Otherwise, the site SSL server will be used, with /file/ path.
sslpath: if this and the sslserver are specified, this path will be used
when creating HTTPS URLs. Otherwise, the attachments|path value
will be used.
show_thumbs: show thumbnails in notice lists for uploaded images, and photos
and videos linked remotely that provide oEmbed info. Defaults to true.
show_html: show (filtered) text/html attachments (and oEmbed HTML etc.).
Doesn't affect AJAX calls. Defaults to false.
filename_base: for new files, choose one: 'upload', 'hash'. Defaults to hash.
group
-----
Options for group functionality.
maxaliases: maximum number of aliases a group can have. Default 3. Set
to 0 or less to prevent aliases in a group.
desclimit: maximum number of characters to allow in group descriptions.
null (default) means to use the site-wide text limits. 0
means no limit.
addtag: Whether to add a tag for the group nickname for every group post
(pre-1.0.x behaviour). Defaults to false.
search
------
Some stuff for search.
type: type of search. Ignored if PostgreSQL or Sphinx are enabled. Can either
be 'fulltext' or 'like' (default). The former is faster and more efficient
but requires the lame old MyISAM engine for MySQL. The latter
will work with InnoDB but could be miserably slow on large
systems. We'll probably add another type sometime in the future,
with our own indexing system (maybe like MediaWiki's).
sessions
--------
Session handling.
handle: boolean. Whether we should register our own PHP session-handling
code (using the database and cache layers if enabled). Defaults to false.
Setting this to true makes some sense on large or multi-server
sites, but it probably won't hurt for smaller ones, either.
debug: whether to output debugging info for session storage. Can help
with weird session bugs, sometimes. Default false.
ping
----
Using the "XML-RPC Ping" method initiated by weblogs.com, the site can
notify third-party servers of updates.
notify: an array of URLs for ping endpoints. Default is the empty
array (no notification).
notice
------
Configuration options specific to notices.
contentlimit: max length of the plain-text content of a notice.
Default is null, meaning to use the site-wide text limit.
0 means no limit.
defaultscope: default scope for notices. If null, the default
scope depends on site/private. It's 1 if the site is private,
0 otherwise. Set this value to override.
message
-------
Configuration options specific to messages.
contentlimit: max length of the plain-text content of a message.
Default is null, meaning to use the site-wide text limit.
0 means no limit.
logincommand
------------
Configuration options for the login command.
disabled: whether to enable this command. If enabled, users who send
the text 'login' to the site through any channel will
receive a link to login to the site automatically in return.
Possibly useful for users who primarily use an XMPP or SMS
interface and can't be bothered to remember their site
password. Note that the security implications of this are
pretty serious and have not been thoroughly tested. You
should enable it only after you've convinced yourself that
it is safe. Default is 'false'.
singleuser
----------
If an installation has only one user, this can simplify a lot of the
interface. It also makes the user's profile the root URL.
enabled: Whether to run in "single user mode". Default false.
nickname: nickname of the single user. If no nickname is specified,
the site owner account will be used (if present).
robotstxt
---------
We put out a default robots.txt file to guide the processing of
Web crawlers. See http://www.robotstxt.org/ for more information
on the format of this file.
crawldelay: if non-empty, this value is provided as the Crawl-Delay:
for the robots.txt file. see <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robots_exclusion_standard#Crawl-delay_directive>
for more information. Default is zero, no explicit delay.
disallow: Array of (virtual) directories to disallow. Default is 'main',
'search', 'message', 'settings', 'admin'. Ignored when site
is private, in which case the entire site ('/') is disallowed.
api
---
Options for the Twitter-like API.
realm: HTTP Basic Auth realm (see http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2617
for details). Some third-party tools like ping.fm want this to be
'Identi.ca API', so set it to that if you want to. default = null,
meaning 'something based on the site name'.
nofollow
--------
We optionally put 'rel="nofollow"' on some links in some pages. The
following configuration settings let you fine-tune how or when things
are nofollowed. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nofollow for more
information on what 'nofollow' means.
subscribers: whether to nofollow links to subscribers on the profile
and personal pages. Default is true.
members: links to members on the group page. Default true.
peopletag: links to people listed in the peopletag page. Default true.
external: external links in notices. One of three values: 'sometimes',
'always', 'never'. If 'sometimes', then external links are not
nofollowed on profile, notice, and favorites page. Default is
'sometimes'.
url
---
These are some options for fine-tuning how and when the server will
shorten URLs.
shortener: URL shortening service to use by default. Users can override
individually. 'internal' by default.
maxurllength: If an URL is strictly longer than this limit, it will be
shortened. Note that the URL shortener service may return an
URL longer than this limit. Defaults to 100. Users can
override. If set to 0, all URLs will be shortened.
maxnoticelength: If a notice is strictly longer than this limit, all
URLs in the notice will be shortened. Users can override.
-1 means the text limit for notices.
router
------
We use a router class for mapping URLs to code. This section controls
how that router works.
cache: whether to cache the router in cache layers. Defaults to true,
but may be set to false for developers (who might be actively
adding pages, so won't want the router cached) or others who see
strange behavior. You're unlikely to need this unless developing..
http
----
Settings for the HTTP client.
ssl_cafile: location of the CA file for SSL. If not set, won't verify
SSL peers. Default unset.
curl: Use cURL <http://curl.haxx.se/> for doing HTTP calls. You must
have the PHP curl extension installed for this to work.
proxy_host: Host to use for proxying HTTP requests. If unset, doesn't
do any HTTP proxy stuff. Default unset.
proxy_port: Port to use to connect to HTTP proxy host. Default null.
proxy_user: Username to use for authenticating to the HTTP proxy. Default null.
proxy_password: Password to use for authenticating to the HTTP proxy. Default null.
proxy_auth_scheme: Scheme to use for authenticating to the HTTP proxy. Default null.
plugins
-------
default: associative array mapping plugin name to array of arguments. To disable
a default plugin, unset its value in this array.
locale_path: path for finding plugin locale files. In the plugin's directory
by default.
server: Server to find static files for a plugin when the page is plain old HTTP.
Defaults to site/server (same as pages). Use this to move plugin CSS and
JS files to a CDN.
sslserver: Server to find static files for a plugin when the page is HTTPS. Defaults
to site/server (same as pages). Use this to move plugin CSS and JS files
to a CDN.
path: Path to the plugin files. defaults to site/path + '/plugins/'. Expects that
each plugin will have a subdirectory at plugins/NameOfPlugin. Change this
if you're using a CDN.
sslpath: Path to use on the SSL server. Same as plugins/path.
performance
-----------
high: if you need high performance, or if you're seeing bad
performance, set this to true. It will turn off some high-intensity code from
the site.
cache
-----
dir: A string path to a writable directory that will be used as temporary cache
for some functions (currently just the HtmlSanitizer).
If it is not set, the GNU social installation directory will be used.
oldschool
---------
enabled: enable certain old-style user settings options, like stream-only mode,
conversation trees, and nicknames in streams. Off by default, and
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Plugins
=======
GNU social supports a simple but
powerful plugin architecture. Important events in the code are named,
like 'StartNoticeSave', and other software can register interest
in those events. When the events happen, the other software is called
and has a choice of accepting or rejecting the events.
In the simplest case, you can add a function to config.php and use the
Event::addHandler() function to hook an event:
function AddMyWebsiteLink($action)
{
$action->menuItem('http://mywebsite.net/', _('My web site'), _('Example web link'));
return true;
}
Event::addHandler('EndPrimaryNav', 'AddMyWebsiteLink');
This adds a menu item to the end of the main navigation menu. You can
see the list of existing events, and parameters that handlers must
implement, in EVENTS.txt.
The Plugin class in lib/plugin.php makes it easier to write more
complex plugins. Sub-classes can just create methods named
'onEventName', where 'EventName' is the name of the event (case
matters!). These methods will be automatically registered as event
handlers by the Plugin constructor (which you must call from your own
class's constructor).
Several example plugins are included in the plugins/ directory. You
can enable a plugin with the following line in config.php:
addPlugin('Example', array('param1' => 'value1',
'param2' => 'value2'));
This will look for and load files named 'ExamplePlugin.php' or
'Example/ExamplePlugin.php' either in the plugins/ directory (for
plugins that ship with GNU social) or in the local/ directory (for
plugins you write yourself or that you get from somewhere else) or
local/plugins/.
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Initial simple way to Webfinger enable your domain -- needs PHP.
================================================================
This guide needs some updating, since it will only guide you to present
XML data (while the curl command likely gives you JSON). The workaround
is to simply make curl get 'webfinger.xml' instead, and/or have another
file that contains JSON, but that requires editing the PHP file as well.
Step 1
======
Put the 'dot-well-known' on your website, so it loads at:
https://example.com/.well-known/
(Remember the . at the beginning of this one, which is common practice
for "hidden" files and why we have renamed it "dot-")
Step 2
======
Edit the .well-known/host-meta file and replace "example.com" with the
domain name you're hosting the .well-known directory on.
Using vim you can do this as a quick method:
$ vim .well-known/host-meta [ENTER]
:%s/example.com/domain.com/ [ENTER]
:wq [ENTER]
Step 3
======
For each user on your site, and this might only be you...
In the webfinger directory, make a copy of the example@example.com.xml file
so that it's called (replace username and example.com with appropriate
values, the domain name should be the same as you're "socialifying"):
username@example.com.xml
Then edit the file contents, replacing "social.example.com" with your
GNU social instance's base path, and change the user ID number (and
nickname for the FOAF link) to that of your account on your social
site. If you don't know your user ID number, you can see this on your
GNU social profile page by looking at the destination URLs in the
Feeds links.
PROTIP: You can get the bulk of the contents (note the <Subject> element though)
from curling down your real webfinger data:
$ curl https://social.example.com/.well-known/webfinger?resource=acct:username@social.example.com
Finally
=======
Using this method, though fiddly, you can now be @user@domain without
the need for any prefixes for subdomains, etc.

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<XRD xmlns="http://docs.oasis-open.org/ns/xri/xrd-1.0" xmlns:hm="http://host-meta.net/xrd/1.0">
<Link rel="lrdd" type="application/xrd+xml"
template="https://example.com/.well-known/webfinger?resource={uri}"/>
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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<XRD xmlns="http://docs.oasis-open.org/ns/xri/xrd-1.0">
<Subject>acct:username@example.com</Subject>
<Alias>acct:username@social.example.com</Alias>
<Alias>https://social.example.com/user/1</Alias>
<Link rel="http://webfinger.net/rel/profile-page"
type="text/html"
href="https://social.example.com/user/1"/>
<Link rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2010#updates-from"
type="application/atom+xml"
href="https://social.example.com/api/statuses/user_timeline/1.atom"/>
<!-- Is this/was this ever supported?
<Link rel="http://microformats.org/profile/hcard"
type="text/html"
href="https://social.example.com/hcard"/> -->
<Link rel="http://gmpg.org/xfn/11"
type="text/html"
href="https://social.example.com/user/1"/>
<Link rel="describedby"
type="application/rdf+xml"
href="https://social.example.com/username/foaf"/>
<Link rel="http://salmon-protocol.org/ns/salmon-replies"
href="https://social.example.com/main/salmon/user/1"/>
<Link rel="http://salmon-protocol.org/ns/salmon-mention"
href="https://social.example.com/main/salmon/user/1"/>
<Link rel="http://ostatus.org/schema/1.0/subscribe"
template="https://social.example.com/main/ostatussub?profile={uri}"/>
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<?php
/*
* GNU social
* Copyright (C) 2010, Free Software Foundation, Inc
*
* This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
* it under the terms of the GNU Affero General Public License as published by
* the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
* (at your option) any later version.
*
* This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
* but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
* MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
* GNU Affero General Public License for more details.
*
* You should have received a copy of the GNU Affero General Public License
* along with this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
*/
// basename should make sure we can't escape this directory
$u = basename($_GET['resource']);
if (!strpos($u, '@')) {
throw new Exception('Bad resource');
exit(1);
}
if (mb_strpos($u, 'acct:')===0) {
$u = substr($u, 5);
}
// Just to be a little bit safer, you know, with all the unicode stuff going on
$u = filter_var($u, FILTER_SANITIZE_EMAIL);
$f = $u . ".xml";
if (file_exists($f)) {
header('Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="'.urlencode($f).'"');
header('Content-type: application/xrd+xml');
echo file_get_contents($f);
}

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Upgrading
=========
GNU social 1.1.x to GNU social 1.2.x
------------------------------------
If you are tracking the GNU social git repository, we currently recommend
using the "master" branch (or nightly if you want to use latest features)
and follow this procedure:
0. Backup your data. The StatusNet upgrade discussions below have some
guidelines to back up the database and files (mysqldump and rsync).
MAKE SURE YOU ARE THE SAME USER THAT RUNS THE PHP FILES WHILE PERFORMING
THE COMMANDS BELOW (I usually prepend the commands with 'sudo -u social')
1. Stop your queue daemons (you can run this command even if you do not
use the queue daemons):
$ bash scripts/stopdaemons.sh
2. Run the command to fetch the latest sourcecode:
$ git pull
If you are not using git we recommend following the instructions below
for upgrading "StatusNet 1.1.x to GNU social 1.2.x" as they are similar.
3. Run the upgrade script:
$ php scripts/upgrade.php
The upgrade script will likely take a long time because it will
upgrade the tables to another character encoding and make other
automated upgrades. Make sure it ends without errors. If you get
errors, create a new task on https://git.gnu.io/gnu/gnu-social/issues
4. Start your queue daemons again (you can run this command even if you
do not use the queue daemons):
$ bash scripts/startdaemons.sh
5. Report any issues at https://git.gnu.io/gnu/gnu-social/issues
If you are using ssh keys to log in to your server, you can make this
procedure pretty painless (assuming you have automated backups already).
Make sure you "cd" into the correct directory (in this case "htdocs")
and use the correct login@hostname combo:
$ ssh social@domain.example 'cd htdocs
&& bash scripts/stopdaemons.sh
&& git pull
&& time php scripts/upgrade.php
&& bash scripts/startdaemons.sh'
StatusNet 1.1.x to GNU social 1.2.x
-----------------------------------
We cannot support migrating from any other version of StatusNet than
1.1.1. If you are running a StatusNet version lower than this, please
follow the upgrade procedures for each respective StatusNet version.
You are now running StatusNet 1.1.1 and want to migrate to GNU social
1.2.x. Beware there may be changes in minimum required version of PHP
and the modules required, so review the INSTALL file (php5-intl is a
newly added dependency for example).
* Before you begin: Make backups. Always make backups. Of your entire
directory structure and the database too. All tables. All data. Alles.
0. Make a backup of everything. To backup the database, you can use a
variant of this command (you will be prompted for the database password):
$ mysqldump -u dbuser -p dbname > social-backup.sql
1. Stop your queue daemons 'bash scripts/stopdaemons.sh' should do it.
Not everyone runs queue daemons, but the above command won't hurt.
2. Unpack your GNU social code to a fresh directory. You can do this
by cloning our git repository:
$ git clone https://git.gnu.io/gnu/gnu-social.git gnusocial
3. Synchronize your local files to the GNU social directory. These
will be the local files such as avatars, config and files:
avatar/*
file/*
local/*
.htaccess
config.php
This command will point you in the right direction on how to do it:
$ rsync -avP statusnet/{.htaccess,avatar,file,local,config.php} gnusocial/
4. Replace your old StatusNet directory with the new GNU social
directory in your webserver root.
5. Run the upgrade script: 'php scripts/upgrade.php'
The upgrade script will likely take a long time because it will
upgrade the tables to another character encoding and make other
automated upgrades. Make sure it ends without errors. If you get
errors, create a new task on https://git.gnu.io/gnu/gnu-social/issues
6. Start your queue daemons: 'bash scripts/startdaemons.sh'
7. Report any issues at https://git.gnu.io/gnu/gnu-social/issues

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### GNU social "fancy URL" setup
#
# Change the "RewriteBase" in the new .htaccess file to be the URL path
# to your GNU Social installation on your server. Typically this will
# be the path to your GNU Social directory relative to your Web root.
# If you are installing it in the root directory, leave it as '/'.
#
# If it doesn't work, double-check that AllowOverride for the GNU Social
# directory is 'All' in your Apache configuration file. This can be
# * /etc/apache2/apache2.conf (generic)
# * /etc/apache2/sites-available/default(on Debian and Ubuntu)
# * ...many other variations depending on distribution...
#
# See the Apache documentation for .htaccess files for more details:
# https://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.4/howto/htaccess.html
#
# Also, check that mod_rewrite is installed and enabled:
# https://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.4/mod/mod_rewrite.html
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
# NOTE: change this to your actual GNU social base URL path,
# minus the domain part:
#
# https://social.example.com/ => /
# https://example.com/social/ => /social/
#
RewriteBase /
#RewriteBase /mublog/
## Uncomment these if having trouble with API authentication
## when PHP is running in CGI or FastCGI mode.
#
#RewriteCond %{HTTP:Authorization} ^(.*)
#RewriteRule ^(.*) - [E=HTTP_AUTHORIZATION:%1]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule (.*) index.php?p=$1 [L,QSA]
## You can also use PATHINFO by using this RewriteRule instead:
# RewriteRule (.*) index.php/$1 [L,QSA]
</IfModule>
<FilesMatch "\.(ini)">
<IfVersion < 2.3>
Order allow,deny
Deny from all
</IfVersion>
<IfVersion >= 2.3>
Require all denied
</IfVersion>
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# This is completely optional, but if you're running a site with
# ssl="always" configured, then you might as well redirect any of
# your stray HTTP visitors to HTTPS.
#
#$HTTP["scheme"] == "http" {
# $HTTP["host"] =~ "^(social\.example\.com)$" {
# url.redirect = ( "^\/?(.*)" => "https://%1/$1" )
# server.name = "%1"
# }
#}
# If you're using vhosts, you should have per-vhost server.document-root
# settings too! Read how in the respective alternative vhost modules.
#$HTTP["host"] =~ "^social\.example\.com$" {
# NOTE: configure fastcgi/cgi/fpm here if you're using per-user cgi/fpm
# fastcgi.server += ( ".php" =>
# ( "localhost" => (
# "host" => "127.0.0.1",
# "port" => "9000"
# ))
# )
dir-listing.activate = "disable"
# Make sure "mod_rewrite" is enabled in server.modules
url.rewrite-if-not-file = ( "^/(.*)$" => "/index.php/$1" )
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server {
listen [::]:80;
listen 80;
# FIXME: Change domain name here (and also make sure you do the same in the next 'server' section)
server_name social.example.org;
# redirect all traffic to HTTPS
rewrite ^ https://$host$request_uri? permanent;
}
server {
# HTTPS is mandatory on GNU social unless you are using Tor network. Seriously.
# Set it up with a cert (any cert) before you run the install.
listen [::]:443 ssl http2;
listen 443 ssl http2;
# Root
# FIXME: Change the path below to where you installed GNU social
root /path/to/gnusocial/root;
# Server name
# FIXME: Change "social.example.org" to your site's domain name
server_name social.example.org;
# SSL
# FIXME: Change the paths to setup your SSL key/cert. See https://cipherli.st/ for more information
ssl_certificate ssl/certs/social.example.org.crt;
ssl_certificate_key ssl/private/social.example.org.key;
# Index
index index.php;
# PHP
location ^~ /index.php {
include fastcgi_params;
include snippets/fastcgi-php.conf;
fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php/php-fpm.sock;
fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $request_filename;
}
# Don't allow any PHP file other than index.php to be executed
# This will ensure that nor config.php nor plugin files with eventual hardcoded security information are downloadable
# And this is better than allowing php files to be executed in case of forgotten `if (!defined('GNUSOCIAL')) { exit(1); }`
location ~ \.php$ {
deny all;
}
# Location
location / {
try_files $uri $uri/ @index_handler;
}
# Fancy URLs
error_page 404 @index_handler;
location @index_handler {
rewrite ^(.*)$ /index.php?p=$1 last;
}
# Restrict access that is unnecessary anyway
location ~ /\.(ht|git) {
deny all;
}
#
# Hardening (optional)
#
# add_header Strict-Transport-Security "max-age=15768000; preload;";
# add_header X-Content-Type-Options nosniff;
# add_header Referrer-Policy strict-origin-when-cross-origin;
# add_header Content-Security-Policy "default-src 'self' 'unsafe-inline'; frame-ancestors 'self'; form-action 'self'; style-src 'self' 'unsafe-inline'; img-src * blob: data:;";
# add_header X-Permitted-Cross-Domain-Policies none;
# add_header X-Robots-Tag all; # Not really hardening, just here for strictness purposes
#
# client_max_body_size 15M;
# client_body_buffer_size 128k;
# gzip_vary on;
#
# location ~* \.(?:css|js|woff|svg|gif|png|webp|ttf|ico|jpe?g)$ {
# gzip on;
# gzip_comp_level 4;
# add_header Cache-Control "public";
# expires 30d;
# access_log off;
# log_not_found off;
# }
}