Friendica self host install help

Can anyone point me to a source of help for self host install of Friendica. I have tried every support email I have come across and they all bounced. I signed up on multiple Friendica instances and tried to access the Friendica forum site but no go. Any direction to a source of help would be appreciated. I have read the instructed and completed 95% of the install but I am stuck in the final stages.

Thanks

@naturelchoice Which steps have you followed and where do you get stucked?

@heluecht @helpers @naturelchoice and what happens that you are calling "stuck"? I had a recent install fail strangely with a "page cannot be displayed" type message, which turned out to be someone had uninstalled one of the prerequisites because "no-one" was using it yet!

I downloaded the files and uploaded to folder on server through FTP but kept getting this error message when moving to configuration

Vendor path not found. Please execute "bin/composer.phar run install:prod" on the command line in the web root.

So I started over and installed from git hub using ssh. When I went to execute the final instructions to run
bin/composer.phar install --no-dev
I got an error message proc open not installed and is required. Got that installed and run the command. It pulls the archives but then asks me for a username and password
I tried my system username and password but no luck.
That is where I am stuck.
Working on a dedicated server running Apache and php 8.3 1 1TB storage 64 GB memory

@naturelchoice Is "proc open not installed" an exact copy of the error message? It's not familiar to me.

The "Vendor path not found" message already has me worried. What is the base operating system / distribution there? Was PHP installed as part of it?

Please search the web for the exact error message concerning this "proc_open". It seems as if some packages or permissions are missing.

@mjray Already had php installed used the instructions found here
friendi.ca/resources/
To install using shell to an empty directory with the following commands from that page
> git clone github.com/friendica/friendica… -b develop .
$> git clone github.com/friendica/friendica… -b develop addon
$> bin/composer.phar install --no-dev
This last command to install composer is where to proc-open error occurred.
I don’t get that error anymore but after the download it asks for a username and password to continue
That is where I am currently stuck because it didn’t accept me system username and password.
I hope that is clearer.

@heluecht The error message doesn’t show up anymore the php extension for proc_open is installed but after the process runs it asks for a user name and password I tried my system password but that didn’t work

@naturelchoice .. I believe, you must enter something into the file config/local.config.php into the 'config' section like so: 'admin_email' => 'yourmail@provider.tld' so that you will be the admin..

see here: github.com/friendica/friendica…

@noidea Hmm ok thank for the response I thought that came later. I am currently wiping the directory and will try to clone from git again to make sure I get the stable not developer branch. Then I will try your suggestion. Appreciate the suggestion. I really am excited about running Friendica.

@mjray Forget I am Running Apache on Linux Ubuntu 1 TB storage 64 GB memory

@heluecht Here is a scree capture of the authentication message

@naturelchoice did you clone from the git address? maybe try the https address

@noidea Yes I did clone from the git address because that was all I saw. Can you tell me what the https address is? Can I find that on the friendica git?

@noidea Never mind I found it

I found the cause but I don’t have a solution. The server that is supposed to call the final part of the install git.friendica.ca is off line. This has happened before apparently several times

github.com/friendica/friendica…
If there a work around or am I just stuck?

@naturelchoice git.friendi.ca is online. But I don't know why it is asking for credentials.