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 <center><p>On setting up chud.cyou/xolatile.top</p></center>
 <p>I created this server because I wanted a server to fuck around with. It was created on 20250211.</p>
 <p>It runs Debian Stable, on a VPS hosted on the Moon. It's primary functionality are the few public services that run on it. This includes HTTP, Email, IRC, XMPP, Git, & Mumble. I'll start with HTTP first, as it was the most painful.</p>
-<p>I set HTTP up pretty quickly, with certbot as the certificate manager, and one daemon: Caddy. Later on I set up Mediawiki and a sevice requiring FastCGI. Caddy does support CGI, however I wasn't willing to install a source package for such a thing, hence I used NGINX. Apache way used for Mediawiki. This means I now had 3 HTTPDs. I had also installed lighttpd, for something I don't remember. Eventually I broke mediawiki when trying to install a different version of PHP, this resulted in all the images on the Mediawiki to be wiped. I eventually gave up on mediawiki and uninstalled Apache. PHP remained, but downgraded from the supposedly "better" version. PHP is still used in a file uploading script which I found on a random Gunthub page. All the actually "formal" PHP projects I couldn't figure out how to install any of them and went with the simple one.</p>
+<p>I set HTTP up pretty quickly, with certbot as the certificate manager, and one daemon: Caddy. Later on I set up Mediawiki and a sevice requiring FastCGI. Caddy does support CGI, however I wasn't willing to install a source package for such a thing, hence I used NGINX. Apache way used for Mediawiki. This means I now had 3 HTTPDs. I had also installed lighttpd, for something I don't remember. Eventually I broke mediawiki when trying to install a different version of PHP, this resulted in all the images on the Mediawiki to be wiped. I eventually gave up on mediawiki and uninstalled Apache. PHP remained, but downgraded from the supposedly "better" version. PHP is still used in a <a href="https://git.xolatile.top/emil/xolatile.top/src/branch/master/chud/up/index.php">file uploading script</a> which I found on a random Gunthub page. All the actually "formal" PHP projects I couldn't figure out how to install any of them and went with the simple one.</p>
 <p>Apache was nightmarish to interact with, but with the information I had at my disposal, my method was to simply just poke at the evil daemon inside of my server until it worked close enough to how I wanted. Dealing with NGINX was fine, as it is my current and only HTTPD, however I kept insisting on HTTP/3 because I considered it a decently valuable upgrade. Newer versions of NGINX support it via an option, however this version of Debian does not have such a thing. I used caddy to talk to NGINX only when I needed its decent set of feature.</p>
-<p>The next one was Email, which was fun because I had no idea what I was doing. I used Luke Smith's Email Wizard script because I remembered watching a video from him about setting up a self-hosted mail server - and that script seemed very easy in my memory. Anyhow, it didn't work at first. Dealing with Dovecot's configuration was a pain because I tried everything to get databasing working, and ended up with <code>passwd-file</code>. Dealing with mbox vs. Maildir was lots of fun because it didn't make any sense, but eventually I got the system to use the correct sendmail from Postfix and my mail system could then curry local mail to external peers & vice versa. Setting up Spamd was actually very easy, the hardest part was testing and dealing with the minor configuration bugs along the way - doing the necessary parts of domain configuration was really easy. Luke Smith's script got me close enough to functionality that I fucked with Dovecot and Postfix enough to permit myself to send emails - from any address unrestrictly.</p>
+<p>The next one was Email, which was fun because I had no idea what I was doing. I used Luke Smith's <a href="https://github.com/LukeSmithxyz/emailwiz">Email Wizard script</a> because I remembered watching a video from him about setting up a self-hosted mail server - and that script seemed very easy in my memory. Anyhow, it didn't work at first. Dealing with Dovecot's configuration was a pain because I tried everything to get databasing working, and ended up with <code>passwd-file</code>. Dealing with mbox vs. Maildir was lots of fun because it didn't make any sense, but eventually I got the system to use the correct sendmail from Postfix and my mail system could then curry local mail to external peers & vice versa. Setting up Spamd was actually very easy, the hardest part was testing and dealing with the minor configuration bugs along the way - doing the necessary parts of domain configuration was really easy. Luke Smith's script got me close enough to functionality that I fucked with Dovecot and Postfix enough to permit myself to send emails - from any address unrestrictly.</p>
 <code>smtpd_sender_restrictions = reject_sender_login_mismatch</code>
 <p>This enabled me to not have that simple issue anymore. I couldn't figure out a way to set up databasing, and considering my scale for this mail server was <10 people, and likely only 1-2 active users at any given time. The mail server functions, the only gripe I have currently is the authentication system, and the fact that it cannot be transported to FreeBSD. After making a temporary snapshot, I wiped and rebooted the server to play with and see if I could get FreeBSD as my server OS. It did not work out for mail especially, as using OpenSMTPd demostrated to me that I had no idea what I was doing. While trying to setup dovecot I nearly had a conniption because there was no way to install ARGON2I which was my choice of password hashing, meaning I had to reset everyone's password or have a copy - I had a copy of most user's randomly generated passwords in my personal KeePassXC DB as for their recovery. The idea of storing passwords in such a way is disgusting, however better than leaving them in plaintext on the server. I eventually got to the point where I switched to Postfix and had the ability to recieve mail, but not send it. Which I had experienced before setting up mail on linux, but I couldn't debug it before I simply decided to revert the snapshot.</p>
 <p>Regarding IRC, it was decent, but I made some severe mistakes. I wanted an IRC server that was powerful in the way that it had everything melted together, including IRCv3 features, & a bouncer. This did not go well in the long term. While my server daemon, Ergo, does work, it has some issues such as being an experimental version rather than a stable upgradable release, and an database format that stores Nickserv data that I haven't recovered. While ergo works great and does what I want, I realize that it is archaic in the fact that I can't migrate away from it without causing serious issues. If I violently remove the database and upgrade many users will need to intervene with a setting like <code>set sasl_fail = continue (weechat)</code> to even automatically reconnect. This means everything is fine as long as I don't touch it, however I will eventually have to either do a breaking upgrade or recover the data and hope that it is infact compatible with a newer database or plaintext.</p>