I have started setting up a server with three domains and three users using Yunohost, but I find it hard to get to work.
The documentation can be frustrating to go through and the community on the forum answers slowly or not at all (because due to the sparse documentation questions from beginners like me tend to touch similar topics I guess). A big part of the forum answers are in French, which I don’t read very well.
All in all I have been trying very hard to like the project. The work done by the developers really deserves all my respect and I would love to remain involved, but trying to get Yunohost to work as a non-techie leaves me often desperate and looking for alternatives with a more active community or a more thorough documentation.
I’m a bit divided here. I like the project but I’m a half-techie stoopid who needs more support. What do? And what would be my alternatives on a Linux VPS? Especially if I don’t want proprietary stuff?
Every admin group user is an admin, you get to specify the first one because without one you wouldn’t be able to use the web portal.
When in doubt, anyway, you can just use SUDO or su to get to root.
I use it for Joplin and my easy way to do this is just installing nextcloud, striping it all of the things I don’t need, mount all the folders into it and just use it as SFTP
An alternative is FileBrowser but there was something bugged so I kept nextcloud.
I don’t think you can. Or maybe yunohost does it automatically because it usually shares resources, they are not containered… I would probably just install more of them.
All the issues I’ve got with yunohost during these years are basically divided into 2 categories:
Maybe I’ll pass to basic sysadmin too one day, or I’ll try abra from coopcloud but Yuno is really good imo :)
They recently added the possibility to have keys of the domains they give you, so also using their domain cuts a lot of overhead if you don’t need to publish personal sites!
How does that work? Do you install Nextcloud inside Yunohost? Does that give you root permission to access the files of other apps on your server?
Yep, on yunohost. For the permission, it’s harder to write than to just do it. There is the external storage panel into nextcloud interface that will let you put admin nick and pass to then mount folders that are “external” to nextcloud 👍👍
Any Open Source alternative to nextcloud that would permit the same?
You know that nextcloud is open source, right? Btw FileBrowser should do