Good manual-install instructions needed

[ivucica]

Hello!

The existing documentation covers automated install on a virgin Ubuntu system. I'm setting up Cartulary on a preexisting Debian-based system; I'm doing fine, but there are a lot of details that people might not find helpful.

One of the things I'm doing is installing in my ${HOME} because that's where I keep all my personal stuff on the server (apart from a tiny bit of bind9 and apache2 configuration related to my sites). There's a lot of assumption that a person installs in /opt/cartulary. It'd help a lot if there were some more details on how to install the system somewhere besides /opt, and with a non-default MySQL password. ;-)

I'm not having issues personally, but others might.

[poVoq]

A way to install this on a shared hoster that doesn't allow SSH access would be also nice.

Technology wise there doesn't seem to be a barrier to running this on a basic Apache/mysql/php shared host with a cron job right?

[mjjzf]

I had the same thought as poVoq - a lot of people have access to shared hosting. ... including me.

[BoyMechanicus]

This seems to be a feature that has been wanted for some time now.

[daveajones]

Running the aggregator (node.js app) seems impossible on shared hosting, but if you can figure out a way to make it work feel free to write it up and send a pull request. I’d love to see it.

[BoyMechanicus]

Would a reverse proxy work?

[daveajones]

Possibly. Im not very familiar with that beyond basic Nginx type setup. The aggregator speaks directly with MySQL if that helps.

[BoyMechanicus]

Are you familiar with apache?

[daveajones]

Very