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debian

• OVH server: debian 11 (bullseye)
• Servus server: debian 12 (bookworm)
• latest stable: debian 13 (trixie)

apt

OVH server

• sources: /etc/apt/sources.list

deb http://deb.debian.org/debian bullseye main
deb-src http://deb.debian.org/debian bullseye main
deb http://security.debian.org/debian-security bullseye-security main
deb-src http://security.debian.org/debian-security bullseye-security main
deb http://deb.debian.org/debian bullseye-updates main
deb-src http://deb.debian.org/debian bullseye-updates main
deb http://deb.debian.org/debian bullseye-backports main
deb-src http://deb.debian.org/debian bullseye-backports main

backports were added for cobbled-paths installation?

i think we can do without when we upgrade to trixie on the Servus server

Servus server

upgrading from bookworm to trixie: https://www.debian.org/releases/trixie/release-notes/upgrading.en.html

• sources: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian.sources

Types: deb
URIs: https://deb.debian.org/debian
Suites: trixie trixie-updates
Components: main non-free-firmware non-free contrib
Signed-By: /usr/share/keyrings/debian-archive-keyring.gpg

Types: deb
URIs: https://security.debian.org/debian-security
Suites: trixie-security
Components: main non-free-firmware non-free contrib
Signed-By: /usr/share/keyrings/debian-archive-keyring.gpg

etherpad-lite

installed

/opt/etherpad-lite/

database

sqlite

• 878MB on 7 Nov 2025
• 917MB on 11 Dec 2025

installation on Servus server

see: Install_Etherpad-lite

mediawiki

/var/www/html/wiki/

/opt/wiki/

• php: php7.4

octomode

/var/www/octomode/

• flask application
• /etc/systemd/system/octomode.service

[Unit]
Description=Collective PDF rendering environment
After=network.target

[Service]
User=octomode
WorkingDirectory=/var/www/octomode
ExecStart=/usr/bin/make action
Restart=always
StandardOutput=append:/var/log/octomode/octomode.log
StandardError=append:/var/log/octomode/octomode.log

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

wiki-to-print

/var/www/wiki2print/

• flask application
• /etc/systemd/system/wiki2print.service

[Unit]
Description=wiki2print
After=network.target

[Service]
User=www-data
WorkingDirectory=/var/www/wiki2print/web-interface/
ExecStart=/usr/bin/make server
#ExecStart=export SCRIPT_NAME=/wiki-to-print && /var/www/wiki2print/web-interface/venv/bin/gunicorn -b localhost:5522 --reload web-interface:APP
Restart=always

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

backups through crontab:

# every night at 3:33
33 3 * * * mysqldump --user=wiki --password=XXX wikidb > /var/www/html/wiki/ wikidb_backup.sql
33 3 * * * mysqldump --user=wiki --password=XXX wikidb --xml > /var/www/html/wiki/wikidb_backup.xml

cobbled-paths

/var/www/cobbled-paths/

nginx

/var/www/html/
/home/manetta/public_html/
/home/simoon/public_html/

home folders

# user directories!! public_html folders
location ~ ^/~(.+?)(/.*)?$ {
    add_header Access-Control-Allow-Origin *;
    alias /home/$1/public_html$2;
    index index.html index.htm;
    autoindex on;
}

For the public_html folders to work after a fresh install, the permissions of home folders need to be adjusted (??):

 sudo chmod 755 /home/*

certbot
auto-renewal through crontab:

 # every night at 04:44
 44 4 * * * certbot renew --pre-hook "systemctl stop nginx" --post-hook "systemctl start nginx" --quiet