🎉 Finally federated!
After a truly ridiculous amount of stubbornness, debugging, and duct-taping containers together, my Ghost blog is now fully ActivityPub enabled.
You can now follow my blog directly from the fediverse:
@laura@blog.laurahargreaves.com 💜🌹
#Fediverse #ActivityPub #OpenWeb #SelfHosting #Ghost #IndieWeb #FediTech
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Elena Rossini ⁂
in reply to Laura Hargreaves 👩💻 • • •Laura Hargreaves 👩💻
in reply to Elena Rossini ⁂ • • •Thank you! 💕 That was quite something, got it done through sheer determination and a refusal to be defeated 😅 @laura@blog.laurahargreaves.com
Elena Rossini ⁂
in reply to Laura Hargreaves 👩💻 • • •I’m super impressed, knowing how hard it is 💖 congrats again!
@laura@blog.laurahargreaves.com
Laura Hargreaves 👩💻
in reply to Elena Rossini ⁂ • • •Yep, about 500 times during the process I'm thinking to myself 'completely understand why Elena went to MagicPages over this' 😂😂
@laura@blog.laurahargreaves.com
Elena Rossini ⁂
in reply to Laura Hargreaves 👩💻 • • •and I struggled for a while to correctly set up a self-hosted Ghost site via Ghost-CLI earlier this year.
When I saw what Docker required I was like: ok, white flag, this is WAAAAAY above my capabilities.
So hats off to you for pulling this off!!! You have my MAJOR respect and admiration ☺️
Laura Hargreaves 👩💻
in reply to Elena Rossini ⁂ • • •Elena Rossini ⁂
in reply to Laura Hargreaves 👩💻 • • •I was TERRIFIED at the thought of stopping my Ghost blog if I had to do a manual transfer to Docker.
You’re my hero for managing it on your own!
Laura Hargreaves 👩💻
in reply to Elena Rossini ⁂ • • •I was also slightly terrified 😅 I will document what I learnt in a post for anyone else who is scared of it! @laura@blog.laurahargreaves.com
Elena Rossini ⁂
in reply to Laura Hargreaves 👩💻 • • •Elena Rossini ⁂
Unknown parent • • •@thomas thank you Thomas. I know.
What you may not know:
Ghost’s recommended setup for self-hosting had been Ubuntu / MySQL for 3+ years. YunoHost runs on Debian - with a MariaDB database for its Ghost package.
These standards have been abandoned by Ghost 2+ YEARS ago. A kind YunoHost volunteer has been manually patching packages after each new release.
Now Ghost is recommending Docker for v6 and going forward.
I LOOOOOVE YunoHost but I would not recommend it for self-hosting Ghost.