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Some FAQs

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##How do I get WebDAV working? via waitman at https://hub.zilla.tech/page/waitman/freebsddavclient Installing and using Dav Client on FreeBSD for Hubzilla

Other options are available, here are two. davfs2 does not seem to install on FreeBSD, as it uses inotify, a Linux kernel feature not present in FreeBSD. It may be possible to build davfs2 using ports/devel/libinotify but I have not tested. (also need to change references to error.h to err.h)

It seems that there were ports for davfs2 and wdfs however these have been removed from the ports tree.

  1. Using Dolphin File Manager (KDE)

Launch Dolphin File Manager and click on "Network" under the "Places" heading on the left panel. Click "Add Network Folder", then select "WebFolder (webdav)" option.

On the "Network Folder Information" page, enter the infomation:

"Name" (which will be displayed in the "Network List") "User" is the username (name of Hubzilla channel connecting to, not your login email address) "Server" is the IP or hostname without http:// or URI path, "Port" should be "443" for SSL sites, otherwise "80" "Folder" is set to /dav/username Check the box "Use encryption" if your hubzilla site is running over SSL, https://

Save & Connect button. When connecting it will prompt for password, which is the login password for the corresponding Hubzilla account.

  1. use fuse/wdfs

First install the "fuse-kmod" port. (or use pkg)

ports/sysutils/fusefs-kmod

add fusefs_enable="YES" to /etc/rc.conf

Load the kernel module

kldload fuse.ko

(when you reboot it should load automatically)

Install neon port

ports/www/neon (or install pkg)

Get the wdfs source from github and build. https://github.com/waitman/wdfs

cd wdfs
./configure
 ./make
 ./make install

Create mount point and connect to Hubzilla dav: (change to your domain)

mkdir /hubzilla 
wdfs -f -o allow_root -ac #^https://hub.zilla.tech/dav/CHANNEL /hubzilla

(check options using wdfs -h. Remove the -f switch to run in background.) It will prompt for username and password. The username is the channel name, the password is account login.

##How do I make a channel that can be edited or adminstered by other people

Click on the Gear icon (apps) at the top. Click on Connections Click the person you want, where it says Edit. Click "Individual Permissions" Waaay down at the bottom, it says:

Can administer my channel resources
Extremely advanced. Leave this alone unless you know what you are doing

Well even if you don't know what you're doing, if you want to share a channel with someone else, do this.

Now the other person will see that channel in their Channel Manager, under "Delegated Channels"

If they click on it, they'll be in as a Remote Authentication, which may be confusing, but that's what it is.

Then to get out of that mode, they have to go to the Gears icon (apps) at the top, click Settings, and then click "Logout". Then they can log back in as themselves.

##How do I filter posts by language Settings -> Additional Features -> Network and Stream Filtering -> Connection Filtering

Once that is turned on, Click 'Connections' in the top navigation menu (the person icon next to the exclamation mark). These are the channels you're connected to. Find a channel and click 'Edit'.

On the connection edit page open "Custom Filter" and add the text lang=ru or lang=fr in the appropriate box for what you wish to accomplish (allowing the language or rejecting the language). There are many different ways to use these filters but we'll only concentrate on language for now. Save the changes.

I've mentioned this elsewhere but it isn't very well documented, so I'll tell you everything I know --- the language detector requires a minimum of 128 characters to have any degree of accuracy and we selected a somewhat arbitrary accuracy cutoff. So short posts won't be detected correctly, if at all.The longer the post the better the accuracy of the language detector. And once we've blocked a post you won't see any comments to that post either - no matter what language the comments are in.

If you want to tweak the accuracy settings get back to me and I can tell you how to do that. I chose settings that worked across a random sampling of foreign language posts and gave me "satisfactory" results.

(Source: Mike)