We’re bowling today and I’ve said “that was a Super Bowl” like three times and no one appreciates it.

@RussSharek Scribe doesn’t handle subdomains exactly, but it only needs the post id at the end of the url. Here’s a redirect you could set up that would work with subdomains for example https://mastodon.technology/@edwardloveall/107074025252475977

@alcinnz great! Let me know if you find any bugs.

@alcinnz I pushed a fix. Can you double check that it works for you?

@alcinnz Thanks! Looking into it now.

@amolith Never used LXD. What I do is run it on localhost:5000 as normal, and then proxy it through nginx. Something like:

upstream scribe {
server localhost:5000 fail_timeout=0;
}

server {
location @scribe {
proxy_pass http://scribe;
}
}

There's more to it than just that but that's the proxying part. I'd be happy to jump on a screen share and show you

@amolith postgres: I absolutely need to do something with the readme. One nice thing about this app is it doesn't actually need postgres. Lucky ships with Avram which wants postgres, but you can set the DATABASE_URL env to literally any properly formatted postgres url. Here's mine: DATABASE_URL=postgres://does@not/mater

@amolith I deployed on Ubuntu so I'm not sure about the specifics of open_ssl, crystal, Debian, and lucky. My _guess_ would be it's a crystal thing, but it's hard to say. I'd start there or maybe even in the Crystal discord https://discord.gg/YS7YvQy

@amolith Wowowow! This is amazing! Thanks for deploying. I'd love for the community to have multiple instances so thanks for just doing this. And >24h after I announced, no less!

Now for your questions:

@amolith Thanks again for getting this deployed! More than happy to share what I know about it and make better directions for others. Just ping me.

@amolith Last question: Just like you're thinking, I used a systemd service. Here's the template I use in my Ansible playbook: https://gist.github.com/edwardloveall/bcb74592f3b18e3db014a106522733a0

@amolith Fourth: I'm pretty sure that's set with the APP_DOMAIN env var: APP_DOMAIN=https://scribe.rip

I've made an alternative frontend to Medium:

https://scribe.rip

If you, like me, are occasionally forced to read articles on medium.com, now you can read them on Scribe instead! Feedback welcome.

#OpenSource #crystallang