This entry assumes you use Dreamhost shared hosting (Ubuntu), and are comfortable with git, command line, and maybe other stuff.

My goal with all this is to allow myself to post from my phone directly to my Hugo-powered static website. I recently found Micropub gets me a long way toward that goal.

I was able to get something posted via Aaron Parecki’s Micropub client Quill notes, but I could not get the editor to work; it is apparently not sending the token, which is pretty surprising.

I wanted to have a copy of the Quill code running on my own server so I could see what was (not) happening.

I set up a new Dreamhost user for the website https://quill.plasticaddy.com/

In addition to the instructions above, I had to set the Web Directory to quill.plasticaddy.com/public

I cloned https://github.com/aaronpk/Quill and used my clone, git@github.com:thunderrabbit/Quill.git in the instructions below.

On my Dreamhost server:

$ cd ~ $ git clone git@github.com:thunderrabbit/Quill.git quill.plasticaddy.com

I set up the config file and ready to go!

Oh no, not ready to go.

preg_replace_callback(): Allocation of JIT memory failed, PCRE JIT will be disabled.
This is likely caused by security restrictions. Either grant PHP permission to
allocate executable memory, or set pcre.jit=0

I am on shared hosting, so cannot likely grant PHP permission to allocate exexutable memory.

I determined which version of php file to edit with php -v

PHP 7.2.30 (cli) (built: Apr 24 2020 01:29:53) ( NTS )

I can set pcre.jit to 0 by editing ~/.php/7.2/phprc. Just need to add the last line:

cat `~/.php/7.2/phprc`

; {{{ The following lines were automatically added by DreamHost
zend_extension=opcache.so
; }}} That's all from DreamHost
; {{{ Rob adding pcre.jit=0 to get Quill running.  Thanks to https://stackoverflow.com/a/59579035/194309
pcre.jit=0

Then I had to create the table manually by sending the contents of the Quill schema file to mysql https://raw.githubusercontent.com/aaronpk/Quill/master/schema/mysql.sql

As of this writing

CREATE TABLE `users` (
  `id` int(11) unsigned NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT,
  `url` varchar(255) DEFAULT NULL,
  `authorization_endpoint` varchar(255) DEFAULT NULL,
  `token_endpoint` varchar(255) DEFAULT NULL,
  `micropub_endpoint` varchar(255) DEFAULT NULL,
  `micropub_media_endpoint` varchar(255) DEFAULT NULL,
  `micropub_access_token` text,
  `micropub_scope` varchar(255) DEFAULT NULL,
  `micropub_response` text,
  `micropub_slug_field` varchar(255) NOT NULL DEFAULT 'mp-slug',
  `micropub_syndicate_field` varchar(255) NOT NULL DEFAULT 'mp-syndicate-to',
  `micropub_success` tinyint(4) DEFAULT '0',
  `date_created` datetime DEFAULT NULL,
  `last_login` datetime DEFAULT NULL,
  `last_micropub_response` text,
  `last_micropub_response_date` datetime DEFAULT NULL,
  `location_enabled` tinyint(4) NOT NULL DEFAULT '0',
  `syndication_targets` text,
  `channels` text,
  `twitter_access_token` text,
  `twitter_token_secret` text,
  `twitter_username` varchar(255) DEFAULT NULL,
  `email_username` varchar(255) DEFAULT NULL,
  `default_timezone` varchar(255) DEFAULT NULL,
  `supported_post_types` longtext,
  `supported_visibility` longtext,
  PRIMARY KEY (`id`)
) ENGINE=InnoDB DEFAULT CHARSET=utf8;

And it works!

Well, it’s posting both notes and articles. Now I just have to get my copy of micropub to parse them the way I want.

19:39 Monday 29 June 2020 JST

Been working pretty much all day on it, and beginning to get hold of how to put the files where I want them to be.