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@gajim Kudos, and nice timing - with any luck this will get into #Debian trixie.

I already wrote about caching here
Now I extended what I cache a bit.
This was because after enabling Option to proxy media I've seen access to the file paths /x/ and /y/ in addition to the path were snac stores the media that I include in my own posts ( /s/ ).
There are two locations to proxy media, depending if you requests the media via the mastodonapi or via the web. (/x/ and /y/), oh and I added the nodeinfo2 path too, because I've noticed it was queried all the time by a lot of instances and it gives me pleasure to see something cached handed out in the access logs 🙂 (I guess it is actaully irrelevant for the system resources).
This is the updated setup:
Enable the relevant modules:

a2enmod expires cache cache_disk

Be sure "htcacheclean" is running to clean up old disk cache. (under debian see /etc/default/apache-htcacheclean or else the relevant systemd service or whatever)
Then add to the snac Virtualhost config:

<LocationMatch "^/social/[^/]+/[xys]/|^/social/nodeinfo_2_0">
CacheEnable disk
Header set Cache-Control "max-age=86400, public" "expr=%{REQUEST_STATUS} == 200"
ExpiresActive On
ExpiresDefault "access plus 86400 seconds"
</LocationMatch>

The Header that I set here, on the condition of Status code 200, is needed for the path /y/, because snac defaults to set no-cache on that location and the modexpires will honor that if we don't override it. I set it to the same Cache-Control value as modexpores woud. (mod_expires will additionally calculate the date and put that in the expiresheader. (hence the name I guess 😀 )

#Fediverse #Hosting #ITNotes #apache2 #httpd #Ownyourdata #Server #Snac #Snac2 #Tipsandtricks #Tutorial #Debian #caching

Debian 15 will be codenamed duke. Visit https://wiki.debian.org/DebianReleases for the names of past and future Debian releases #debian #duke

The Debian Release Team is keeping pace: the first trixie freeze step (transition and toolchain freeze) is coming next month! https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2025/01/msg00004.html #debian #trixie

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@debian: Yeah sure, but #Debian stopped supporting the i386 architecture recently claiming again and again that there's no more new 32bit x86 hardware to buy despite this was never true: https://www.vortex86.com/ produces 32-bit only x86 CPUs and SoC for at least a decade now. 😢😠

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I've never done any caching etc before so it was a nice adventure to learn something new. The documentation helped and in the end it wasn't very hard. I learned a bit about some http headers and regex on the way too.

Basically it works like this:
Enable the relevant modules:

a2enmod expires cache cache_disk

Be sure "htcacheclean" is running to clean up old disk cache. (under debian see /etc/default/apache-htcacheclean or else the relevant systemd service)
Then add to the snac virtualhost config:

    CacheRoot /var/cache/apache2/mod_cache_disk
    CacheQuickHandler off
    CacheLock on
    #Optional while testing stuff;
    CacheDetailHeader on
    
    #My Instance ist not at the root, but under "/social"; so this needs to be adapted:
    <LocationMatch "^/social/[^/]+/s">
    CacheEnable disk
    ExpiresActive On
    ExpiresDefault "access plus 30 days"
    </LocationMatch>

Thanks for the initial tutorial @itnotes@snac.it-notes.dragas.net

Edit:
Oh and don't hesitate to tell me what I did stupid while setting this up, maybe in nicer words, if it is. And also I can't get the markdown Code formatting working apparently. Well. Sorry for all the edits.

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looking for a new colleague in my team:
https://go.uvt.nl/22644 "Linux IT Infrastructure Engineer" , Debian GNU/Linux , Tilburg .nl , 0.8 or 1.0 FTE , remote work partly possible. #getfedihired #debian #fedijob #tilburg #tilburgu

@darrennevares I think "normies" should not be encouraged to move to XMPP yet. It's still very much "geeks only", IMHO, as there's still some inconsistent key XEP support across all the best XMPP clients.

I appreciate how #LinuxMint made a bold bet on #Matrix in all their default installs, and now #Ubuntu is following suit. That will help iron out subtle, lingering problems and footguns Matrix still has, holding it back from mass adoption.

Likewise, if some bigger distros decided to patronize #XMPP, say #Debian (say, including an XMPP client in all default installs, as part of a first-boot "Welcome Center" experience to get support from an XMPP chatroom), that too would eventually help iron out the similar subtle problems and footguns of XMPP.

@daniel the two worst "footguns" I encountered when setting up #Prosody 0.12.3 in #Debian 12 were - you're not going to like this - enabling TLS, not STARTTLS (ruins upload.sampledomain.com capability), and trying to use SRV records (made an honest attempt, couldn't get it to fly).

These "footguns" wasted two brutally unenjoyable days of my life, until I scaled back these progressive wishes.

#XMPP

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