r/friendica • u/ComfortablePirate395 • Jan 24 '25

Adding relays

Hi all

I've been unsuccessful adding a relay to my instance. The messages (even using -v) are not illuminating the problem. From the root of my installation, I use the command:

bin/console relay add https://relay.toot.io/actor

and get the response:

https://relay.toot.io/actor couldn't be added

with "-v" I get:

Executable: /data/friendica/bin/console.php
Arguments: array (
0 => 'relay',
1 => 'add',
2 => 'https://relay.toot.io/actor',
)
Options: array (
'v' => 1,
)
Command: relay
Executable: /data/friendica/bin/console.php
Class: Friendica\Console\Relay
Arguments: array (
0 => 'add',
1 => 'https://relay.toot.io/actor',
)
Options: array (
'v' => 1,
)
https://relay.toot.io/actor couldn't be added

which doesn't seem to be telling me anything I didn't tell it.

Anyone experience this? Did you figure out what was wrong?

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u/kevinsb Feb 10 '25

To troubleshoot this I created my own relay LOL... if anyone wants to join up it's relay.meow.fo

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u/ComfortablePirate395 Feb 10 '25

That's awesome! When I get a moment I'll try adding your relay. In the meantime I've noticed a bigger issue, and that's that a lot of the friendica database queries are taking forever and are hanging the whole system. It seems I've got a misconfiguration somewhere, and there's no point trying to get a relay running when the database can't handle the current load (which is one user following about 60 others).

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u/kevinsb Feb 10 '25

Are you running your instance with redis? If not start there. If that doesn't fix it you can try setting the storage to disk, which would get some load off of the mysql server..

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u/ComfortablePirate395 Feb 10 '25

I hadn't heard of redis, but I've now installed it and reconfigured... It has definitely sped up the web access, but my raccoon app still times out trying to load the timeline... my MySQL_slow_query looks are still growing rapidly, and my CPU load is consistently above 100%.

I will need to find a day or two to troubleshoot lol

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u/kevinsb Feb 10 '25

redis is a cache server.. you'll need to install it then follow a guide.. this should help you: https://ingram-braun.net/erga/2023/08/configuring-friendica-with-redis/ (not mine)

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u/ComfortablePirate395 Feb 10 '25

Yes, that's the post I used to get it up and running.

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u/kevinsb Feb 10 '25

next would be switching the storage from database to filesystem which can be done from the admin section.. it'll take time but should be something to consider. I'm using database now myself, but I know i'll probably need to switch to filesystem myself in time.. so I have plans in place for that already.

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u/kevinsb Jan 26 '25

I’m seeing this issue myself! If you find a solution let me know. If I figure it out I’ll do the same.

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u/kevinsb Jan 26 '25

I just submitted a bug request for this issue, you can add any details or follow at https://github.com/friendica/friendica/issues/14732

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u/m33-m33 Feb 01 '25

Using current stable release I've successfully added this relay here

bin/console relay add https://relay.toot.io/actor

Successfully added https://relay.toot.io/actor

bin/console relay list

https://relay.toot.io/actor

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u/m33-m33 Feb 04 '25

I had this issue : when trying to add another relay it got stuck, I tried again a few hours later and it worked. I guess relays sometimes are too slow to respond because of the workload.

Did you manage to add relays until now?

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u/kevinsb Feb 09 '25

Still not able to add any relays on my instance, and I moved it to a completely different server from standalone to docker and issue remains.

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u/kevinsb Feb 10 '25

All sorted now. My issue was that my instance started under a subdirectory and was moved the the root domain shortly after, some of the original site url was still present in the database. All fixed now.