Yourls: Install docs are dated - any chance of an update?

[dylanh724]

The guides (nginx setup) were meant for Ubuntu 14 many years ago -- Following the guide now, I can't seem to get it to work (I had it working years ago when the guide was new: It seems like the guide is finally dated).

An updated guide would rock.

EDIT: Got it working, but only after several hours of _external_ (Google) sites rather than the install guide.

[LeoColomb]

Thanks for your report @dylanh724!

There isn't any official guide how to install on a specific operating system. 🤔
I'm not sure but I think you used the link "How to Install YOURLS on Ubuntu 14.04" in the "list of some (unofficial) install guides" on the readme.html.
As described, it is non-official and do not take preference over official docs like the wiki.

An updated guide would rock.

That said I agree, this readme can definitely be rewritten to refer to more updated ressources. 👍
If you've succeeded to get it working after some hard work, would you document your way and suggest your own guide there? Thx!

[dylanh724]

Actually, your wiki guide is just fine in my nginx setup:

https://github.com/YOURLS/YOURLS/wiki/Nginx-configuration

That wiki is actually awesome and up to date, but down low on Google and no where on that install page -- The wiki link belongs front+center of that /install page! Honestly, that would do just fine. You can keep those old guides, but preferably tag them "possibly outdated" below the wiki.

https://yourls.org/#Install

[LeoColomb]

@dylanh724 OK, thanks a lot for your feedback, appreciated.

We are definitely opened for a PR to reflect your awesome suggestions! 👍

[dylanh724]

I had to restore a backup and now I'm back to 403 forbidden :P I forgot what I did to get it resolved, in the end. Something to do with either that wiki or using a different user for sql. Gahh... sorry.

EDIT: a chmod guide for YOURLS would be nice, too -- what should the main chmod -R be? And I heard /admin should have a different one? I'm horrible with chmod, so I'm just guessing. It'd probably just be a 1-liner guide. sudo chmod -R <xxx> ./ && sudo chmod -R <xxx> ./admin

[LeoColomb]

I had to restore a backup and now I'm back to 403 forbidden

@dylanh724 That's totally unrelated to this issue! 😉

what should the main chmod -R be? And I heard /admin should have a different one?

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As any other php app, all files and directories should be available for reads and writes for the same user used by the web server (and the PHP interpreter) (often www-data).

[PopVeKind]

Does anyone use EasyEngine with their YOURLS?

I don't know if it will help you, but I just moved my YOURLS sites from pair.com (Ubuntu, Apache, MySQL) to linode.com (Debian, Nginx, MariaDB). I just started a Debian 8 image, then EasyEngine, then YOURLS. EasyEngine did most of the work for me (pretty much copy/paste two lines!). I then added only two lines of configuration and it worked fine! Thank You EasyEngine!

@dylanh724 The EasyEngine route to install YOURLS would allow EasyEngine to maintain the underlying packages of YOURLS.

I think we should make YOURLS easier for noobs to load and maintain so that someone with no PHP experience can quickly get a site running perfectly and can easily maintain it with simple copy/paste skills.

If anyone woud like it, I can write _a simple noob guide to installing YOURLS via EasyEngine!_ There are other VPS that this should work on besides Linode, such as Digital Ocean, I just prefer Linode, and have not tested the others.