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Basic definitions for to work with the console and this installation process.
user@localPC:~$ -----------------> you are on your own PC
rootname@VPShosting:~# ----> you are the root user on the VPS server
www-data@VPShosting:~$ ---> you are acting as the friendica installation user on the VPS server
In the case that you also do a VPSserver migration:
rootname@oldVPShosting:~# --> your old VPS server
rootname@newVPShosting:~# -> your new VPS server
MySQL/mariaDB prompt:
MariaDB [(none)]> --> you are not in the standard console environment of your server folder system but inside the DB processor system.
Setting up a LOCAL folder tree on your computer
open your console | mkdir LOCAL
linuxize.com/post/how-to-creat…Create on your computer a folder tree system for to work with your hosting, something like:
/home/user/.VPShosting/
Consider to create:
/home/user/.VPShosting/domain/var/www/html
as a mirror for your VPS installation and for to work with.
We will use this established syntax here in the tutorial.
Command to create the proposed folder tree on your local computer:
user@localPC:~$ mkdir -p .VPShosting/domain/{etc/{php/8.1/apache2,apache2/sites-available},var/www/html/{config,storage,addon,images}}
change to your basic VPShosting folder on your local PC
The standard print on a console of ubuntu 22.04 LTS installation for the root user, the "dictator" on a system that has access to everything and is allowed to do everything is:root@ubuntu:~$ or maybe
root@localhost:~$ .As this might or maybe even should vary and can be modified by root or in the initial installation process, we will use:
rootname@VPShosting:~$ for the VPS serverand
user@localPC:~$ as the local PC user to be more precise as we are working with a local and a remote instance.user@localPC:~$ cd .VPShosting
user@localPC:~/.VPShosting$
