[Freedombox-discuss] Simple way to help out here and now very concretely

[Jonas Smedegaard]

On 11-07-25 at 09:01pm, Craig Barnes wrote:
> On 24 July 2011 23:54, Jonas Smedegaard <dr at jones.dk> wrote:
> 
> > On 11-07-24 at 11:11pm, Craig Barnes wrote:
> > > Would love to start playing with various packages, but am not sure 
> > > if I am wasting my time without a plug at my disposal.
> > >
> > > If someone could point me in the right direction for getting 
> > > started, I'd happily add my learning experience to the wiki to 
> > > give other Freedom-Box contributor newbies a leg up.
> >
> > One quite valuable thing you can do is to propose concrete Debian 
> > packages + any needed configfile customizations.  This does not need 
> > a plug device, just any computer running Debian Linux.
> >
> > More info here (and other posts in same thread):
> >
> >
> > http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/freedombox-discuss/2010-October/000164.html
> >
> > Thank you Jonas,
> 
> I have a spare box that I will be using to tinker with.  What kind of 
> config changes should I be looking at, just software operational with 
> sane defaults?

Yes.


As an example of Jabber service + web-based Jabber client:

Packages: prosody jwchat apache2-mpm-worker

Configs: (attached)

Commands:

# TODO: put in postinst of new jwchat-enhancing package bosch-support
a2enmod proxy_http rewrite

# TODO: use debconf preseeding of jwchat (see bug#635281)
# FIXME: use actual hostname, and update when hostname is updated
# TODO: add trigger script updating when system hostname changes
ln -s ../../jwchat/apache2.conf /etc/apache2/conf.d/jwchat.conf
perl -i -pe 's/^(var\s+SITENAME\s+=\s+)"[^"]*"/$1"freedombox.local"/' /etc/jwchat/config.js



I hope later today to have upgraded [boxer] to actually work, and make 
use of config snippets.


 - Jonas

[boxer]: http://git.emdebian.org/?p=upstream/boxer.git;a=blob;f=README

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# /etc/apache2/conf.d/local-bosch.conf
#
# Setup BOSCH (http-to-xmpp) in Apache2

# prevent the webserver from beeing used as proxy
<LocationMatch "^[^/]">
	Deny from all
</LocationMatch>

# BOSCH should be utf-8 safe
# FIXME: verify that it actually works inside a LocationMatch)
<LocationMatch "^http-(bind|poll)">
	AddDefaultCharset	on
	AddDefaultCharset	UTF-8
</LocationMatch>

# FIXME: verify sanity of "enable from all" (i.e. why did I put in that commented line?)
<Proxy *>
	AddDefaultCharset off
	Order deny,allow
#	Deny from all
	Allow from all

	# Define the character set for proxied FTP directory listings
	ProxyFtpDirCharset UTF-8
</Proxy>

<ProxyMatch http://localhost:5280/.*>
	Order deny,allow
	Allow from all
</ProxyMatch>

RewriteEngine	On
RewriteRule	^/http-bind/ http://127.0.0.1:5280/http-bind/ [P]
RewriteRule	^/http-poll/ http://127.0.0.1:5280/http-poll/ [P]
# not generally applicable (ejabberd admin interface?)
#RewriteRule	^/admin/ http://127.0.0.1:5280/admin/ [P]
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Alias /jwchat /usr/share/jwchat/www

<Directory "/usr/share/jwchat/www">
	Options Indexes Multiviews FollowSymLinks
	DirectoryIndex index.html
</Directory>

# TODO: instead add .da -> .dk symlinks. See bug#635279.
AddLanguage da .da
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