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The Write Freely Tutorial-The first order of business is to create the “writefreely user,” below

useradd -r -m -d /srv/writefreely -s /bin/bash writefreely
	 
usermod -a -G www-data writefreely
	 
su - writefreely

Now, we proceed to download the image of Writefreely from Github and unzip it by changing “ example.com ” for your domain:

	wget  https://github.com/writefreely/writefreely/releases/download/v0.15.1/writefreely_0.15.1_linux_amd64.tar.gz
	 
	 
	tar xvzf writefreely_0.15.1_linux_amd64.tar.gz
	 
	mv writefreely example.com

EXIT

With that done we install Maria DB and create the database

	apt install mariadb-server
	 
	 mysql -u root -p
	 
	CREATE DATABASE writefreely;
	 
	GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON writefreely.* TO 'anameofyours'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'aPWordofyours';
	
EXIT

Now we generate the configuration of writefreely. Remember that you must change example.com to your domain:

	su - writefreely
	 
	cd example.com
	 
	./writefreely --config

In the generated file, we will modify the following data:

username = your user – from above

password = your pass – from above

database = writefreely

site_name = Your Blog’s Name

site_description = Any Description (can be added later after install)

host = https://example.com

default_visibility = public

Once the file is modified we save it (control + X, and we give it to itself). Then we type the following codes to generate the encryption key and the administrator user.

	./writefreely db init
	 
	./writefreely keys generate
	 
	./writefreely --create-admin website admin:website pass 

(simple password for now. you can change it to alphanumerica, symbols upon opening your website)

> EXIT to root

We will create the service in Systemd and add its content from the root user (you have to exit the writefreely user, if you don’t know it’s just typing exit):

	nano /etc/systemd/system/writefreely.service

Add this verbatim changing only example.com to your domain

---

	[Unit]
	Description=WriteFreely Instance
	After=syslog.target network.target mysql.service
	 
	[Service]
	Type=simple
	StandardOutput=syslog
	StandardError=syslog
	 
	User=writefreely
	Group=www-data
	 
	WorkingDirectory=/srv/writefreely/dominio.com
	 
	ExecStart=/srv/writefreely/dominio.com/writefreely
	 
	Restart=always 
	 
	[Install]
	WantedBy=multi-user.target

After this we save the file (control + X, and give it to itself) and continue:

	systemctl daemon-reload
	 
	systemctl start writefreely
	 
	systemctl enable writefreely
	 

Now we will start a very important part, configurinf Nginx:

	apt install nginx certbot python3-certbot-nginx

Then:

	nano /etc/nginx/sites-available/writefreely.conf

---

server {
    listen 80;
    listen [::]:80;

    server_name example.com;

    gzip on;
    gzip_types
      application/javascript
      application/x-javascript
      application/json
      application/rss+xml
      application/xml
      image/svg+xml
      image/x-icon
      application/vnd.ms-fontobject
      application/font-sfnt
      text/css
      text/plain;
    gzip_min_length 256;
    gzip_comp_level 5;
    gzip_http_version 1.1;
    gzip_vary on;

    location ~ ^/.well-known/(webfinger|nodeinfo|host-meta) {
        proxy_set_header Host $host;
        proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr;
        proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $remote_addr;
        proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:8080;
        proxy_redirect off;
    }

     location ~ ^/(css|img|js|fonts)/ {
        root /srv/writefreely/example.com/static;
        # Optionally cache these files in the browser:
        # expires 12M;
    }

    location / {
        proxy_set_header Host $host;
        proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr;
        proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $remote_addr;
        proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:8080;
        proxy_redirect off;
    }
}

      

Save the file ctrl-X,Y, ENTER

Then-

	cd /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/
	 
	ln -s ../sites-available/writefreely.conf
	 
	nginx -t
	 
	systemctl reload nginx
	 

Finally –

	apt install -y certbot python3-certbot-nginx
	 
	certbot

Certbot asks three questions. Answer Y, N, 1 in order.

You’ve been waiting for this! You’re finished and can now go to your domain where you can change your simple password to a complex password and begin your new journey into blogging in minimalist fashion.

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