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Write Freely Tutorial

# Write Freely

## How to Build a Website

Please exercise care when using this tutorial. I use it and it works perfectly. The theme is “painkiller.” Write.as themes

Write Freely

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

Download From GIT



```
wget  https://github.com/writefreely/writefreely/releases/download/v0.15.0/writefreely_0.15.0_linux_amd64.tar.gz

tar xvzf writefreely_0.15.0_linux_amd64.tar.gz

mv writefreely dominio.com
```

**EXIT**

Install Maria DB


```
apt install mariadb-server
mysql -u root -p

CREATE DATABASE writefreely;
	
GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON writefreely.* TO 'username'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'yoursimplepass';
```


**EXIT**
Generate config



```
su - writefreely
	 
cd dominio.com
	 
./writefreely --config
```
	
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In the generated file, we will modify the following data:
	 
	 
	username = you
	password = simple for now
	database = writefreely
	site_name = My Wondrous Blog
	site_description = Description of blog
	host = https://domain.com
	default_visibility = public

	Once the file is modified we save it (control + X, Y, ENTER) 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 usname:simple password
```
	


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 writing- exit):



```
	nano /etc/systemd/system/writefreely.service
```

******************************************************	

[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/domain.com
	 
	ExecStart=/srv/writefreely/domain.com/writefreely
	 
	Restart=always 
	 
	[Install]
	WantedBy=multi-user.target

	*****************************************************
(If you want your blog to be a single user instance replace multi above with - single-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, configure the Nginx:

```
	apt install nginx certbot python3-certbot-nginx
	 
	nano /etc/nginx/sites-available/writefreely.conf
```


With the last code we have created a file where we will write the following, remembering to change domain.com for your domain:

************************************************************

	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/domain.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;
    }
}

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We save the file and enable it:


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

And to finish, we go with the certbot:
```
	apt install -y certbot python3-certbot-nginx
	 
	certbot
```

Certbot asks three questions. Answer Y, N, 1 
=======================================================

**_That's it!_** 

Enter your domain URL into your favorite browser, go to your new website, enter your simple credentials (if you took my advice here), change to complex password (alpha-numeric and symbols @#$% etc.) and just flat go for it! Learning takes time and markdown is required to emphasize and italicize etc. You're smart and you are going to think it's a breeze.

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