This how-to assumes that:
domain.name. Any reference to domain.name throughout the tutorial therefore, must be replaced with your own domain name. Router - Router is the device at home that connects all devices in your house to the internet.
I have been with PlusNet for over two years now and am a happy camper as far as fiber optic broadband is concerned but as I am no longer on a broadband contract with PlusNet and had no intention of going on one, so the only way I could get a change to my ageing router was by purchasing a new one.
Hence I started reading about my options and soon enough realised that an old router can be given new lease of life using DD-WRT. Equally soon-ish I also realised that the router from PlusNet - TG582n - is quite rubbish and does not play nice with any of the open source firmwares.
So I figured that if I have to just play around a bit, I might as well start with something cheaper and cheaper is what I found in the TP-Link router TL-WR841n at just £16.00. You can't get any cheaper than that in my opinion. OK, so now that we have established that I am cheap and my new router is cheap, let's move on to interesting stuff.
I had read that TP-Link router and specifically TL-WR841n plays nicely with DD-WRT but it was only after I had my new toy did I realise that these things also come in hardware version and while interwebs is filled with instructions on installing DD-WRT for upto v9, when it comes to v11 in Europe, it can be a bit tricky to proceed. There are some instructions in forums1 but nothing that walks one end to end hence this post.
While I love Ghost as a blogging platform, it is not best placed for things other than blogs - after all that is the basic idea behind creation of this wonderful tool.
As I wanted to host a static website using tools that don't require a database or rely on php, I went searching on interwebs. I came across a lot of options and the most popular one appears to be Jekyll and it's variants (Nikola and such) but they require a lot of terminal activity which won't go well for regular end user responsible for maintaining content of the static website in question.So I continued looking and came across this wonderful project called Grav.
Grav is super fast, very pretty and extremely easy to deploy and maintain. Additionally, it has very good documentation.
The key features that I absolutely loved are as below:
Follow the Namecheap guide here
Tip
For a subdomain "oxygen.copper.com", just replace @ with "oxygen"
It can't possibly be a coincidence that this is the 7th year since I started blogging on blogger and therefore it is very likely to be a strong case of the 7 year itch syndrome but whichever way you look at it, divorce was inevitable given blogger had just stopped inspiring me.
I have been fiddling with different blogging platforms while getting accused of neglecting my sweet and loving family...😢. Ghost caught my fancy three weeks back. The last post was the beginning of our courtship and this post tells the tale of how a casual fling turned into marital commitment. 😂
To start a fresh blog, choosing any platform is easy and straight forward but to move from one platform to another is - umm... lets just say a very involved process - rewarding but involved.
A complete migration from blogger to WordPress would have been way simpler. I know this as I have done it in past and it appeared like moving to Ghost would require migrating to a WordPress instance anyway. There was - I must admit - a temptation to call WordPress the home but that wouldn't have made a great love-story now - would it?
However, the much publicised WordPress route to Ghost migration did not work for me and eventually after a lot of manual copying, pasting, cleaning, pruning, hiding, reading and learning later, the self-hosted blog is all complete.
To install Ghost as my blogging platform, I had to go through a number of hoops and one of them was to get the nodejs working and what not. I figured this might as well be worth documenting in case I have to do this all over again. It might also be helpful for some other inquisitive minds. 
The most useful reference I found was the post on rosehosting website specific to CentOS 7.
It would have all gone well too; had it not been for the nodejs related issues which resulted in me finding the other helpful pointers from various forums.
Anyway, the steps I took to get this all working are detailed in my notes below - keeping it, where I can, true to the post I have referred above:
I have recently been intrigued by the idea of replacing the likes of “Dropbox” and “Google Drive” with a cloud set-up of my own. I had "Owncloud" set-up for nearly a year but was not happy with it. There were minor niggles aside form speed and thumbnails and then “Owncloud” had a recent split leading to creation of “Nextcloud”.
While “Nextcloud” is the one that is more aligned to the general principles of community driven software, it is new and is still plagued with owncloud issues as it is essentially same stuff in new packaging at the moment.
In the meantime, every now and then I was reading all the good stuff people had to say about "Seafile" and so I wanted to give it a try. Now for the past year and a half I have also been using Fedora Security Lab spin on my home server and I just wanted to get the Seafile set-up on it so I did a few “duckduckgo” searches on the net and finally had the steps to achieve the objective. Obviously it all worked and my Seafile server is live and kicking, hence the post.
So in nutshell my objective was to:
Install seafile-server-5 behind nginx on Fedora 24 Security Lab spin all on a 32 bit 12 year old laptop.
The steps I followed are listed below with detailed notes of what I did. I do not claim these to be perfect but this is what worked for me. If you know that something can be done better, please do let me know in the comments.
Today "Jump" was available for free on Amazon as the app of the day and since it's nearly 7 quids on google play store, I grabbed it. For windows and Mac users, they have a pretty straight forward set-up but as usual for Linux it means some work but, in the end, it leaves you with a set-up you can trust and feel secure about.