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Storytlr is an open source lifestreaming and micro blogging platform. You can use it for a single user or it can act as a host for many people all from the same installation."
I've been looking for something like Storytlr for a few months now or at least trying to do it with
Drupal. While I love Drupal and
FeedAPI I did not want to spend all that time building a lifestream website. So I've been playing around with Storytlr instead and found it very easy. Here is how I got it up and running on a
Ubuntu EC2 server. You can also check out the official Storytlr
install instructions.
Assumptions:
- LAMP stack installed and running.
- Domain setup for a directory.
- MySQL database and user ready to go.
Lets get started!
Get the code:
wget http://storytlr.googlecode.com/files/storytlr-0.9.2.tgz
tar -xvzf storytlr-0.9.2.tgz
You can find out the
latest stable release on Storytlr's downloads page.
Import the database:
Within protected/install is database.sql. Import this into your empty database.
mysql -u username -p -D databasename < database.sql
Make sure you replace username, and databasename with your specific choices, and enter the password when prompted.
Configure Storytlr:
in protected/config copy config.ini.sample to config.ini.
A few settings I've modified:
- db.username
- db.password
- db.dbname
- security.cookie
- web.host
- web.timezone - list of timezones.
- app.from_email
- app.admin_email
- flickr.api_key - Only if you intend on importing Flickr photos. Get one here.
Folder permissions:
You have to make protected/logs, and protected/upload writeable.
chmod a+w protected/logs protected/upload
PHP Tidy:
I had to install the PHP Tidy package for several of the imports to work including RSS feeds.
sudo apt-get install php5-tidy
You can now login to your site using the default username:password of admin:storytlr. Make sure you change these.
Finishing:
Now you can pick your theme and start importing your social identity.
Update - Cron:
To get Cron running you have to execute the protected/tools/update.php script directly while specifying a username. This is what mine looks like to update every five minutes.
*/5 * * * * /usr/bin/php -q -f /path/to/install/protected/tools/update.php -- admin
Since I'm a coder I also installed the
GitHub plugin.
You can check out my lifestream here:
http://stream.abrah.am. Link to your lifestream site in the comments.
