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**General rewording, proof-reading, deduplication, shortening, reordering, simplification, cleanup/formatting/standardization**
- standardize page names, rework documentation structure, update TOC - use same example paths everywhere - level 1 titles on all pages - fix broken links - .md suffix on all page links (works both from readthedocs and github repository views) **Server:** A full and concise installation guide with examples is a frequent request. The documentation should provide such a guide for basic installation needs, while explaining alternative/advanced configuration at the end. Links to reference guides and documentation should be used more frequently to avoid recommending an outdated or excessively complex configuration. - server: move most server-related info to server-configuration.md, cleanup/shorten - server: update list of php dependencies/libraries, link to composer.json - server: installation: support 3 install methods (from release zip, from sources, using docker) - server: installation: use rsync instead of mv as mv results will change depending of taget directory already existing or not - server: add example/basic usage of certbot - server, upgrade, installation: update file permissions setup, use sudo for upgrade operations in webserver document root - server: apache: add comments to configuration, fix and factorize file permissions setup, set cache-control header, deny access to dotfiles, add missing apache config steps, add http->https redirect example - server: nginx: refactor nginx configuration, add comments, DO log access to denied/protected files - server: add links to MDN for x-forwarded-* http headers explanation, cleanup/clarify robots.txt and crawlers section - server: bump file upload size limit to 100MB we have reports of bookmark exports weighing +40MB - i have a 13MB one here - server: simplify phpinfo documentation - server: move backup and restore information to dedicated page - docker: move all docker docs to Docker.md, simplify/ docker setup, add docker-compose.yml example, replace docker-101 with docker cheatsheet - troubleshooting: move all troubleshooting documentation to troubleshooting.md **Usage:** - index: add getting started section on index page - features/usage: move all usage-related documentation to usage.md, add links from the main feature list to corresponding usage docs, clarify/reword features list - shaarli configuration: add note about configuring from web interface **Removed:** - remove obsolete/orphan images - remove obsolete shaarchiver example - remove outdated "decode datastore content" snippet **Development:** - development: move development-related docs (static analysis, CI, unit tests, 3rd party libs, link structure/directory, guidelines, security....) to dev/ directory - development: Merge several pages to development.md - **Breaking change?:** remove mentions of 'stable' branch, switch to new branch/release model (master=latest commit, release=latest tag) - **Breaking change?:** refer to base sharing unit as "Shaare" everywhere (TODO: reflect changes in the code?) doc: update featues list/link to usage.md for details - development: directory structure: add note about required file permissions - .travis-ci.yml: add comments - .htaccess: add comment
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1### Why did you create Shaarli ?
2
3I was a StumbleUpon user. Then I got fed up with they big toolbar. I switched to delicious, which was lighter, faster and more beautiful. Until Yahoo bought it. Then the export API broke all the time, delicious became slow and was ditched by Yahoo. I switched to Diigo, which is not bad, but does too much. And Diigo is sslllooooowww and their Firefox extension a bit buggy. And… oh… **their Firefox addon sends to Diigo every single URL you visit** (Don't believe me ? Use [Tamper Data](https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tamper-data/) and open any page).
4
5Enough is enough. Saving simple links should not be a complicated heavy thing. I ditched them all and wrote my own: Shaarli. It's simple, but it does the job and does it well. And my data is not hosted on a foreign server, but on my server.
6
7### Why use Shaarli and not Delicious/Diigo ?
8
9With Shaarli:
10
11- The data is yours: It's hosted on your server.
12- Never fear of having your data locked-in.
13- Never fear to have your data sold to third party.
14- Your private links are not hosted on a third party server.
15- You are not tracked by browser addons (like Diigo does)
16- You can change the look and feel of the pages if you want.
17- You can change the behaviour of the program.
18- It's magnitude faster than most bookmarking services.
19
20### What does Shaarli mean?
21
22Shaarli stands for _shaaring_ your _links_.
23
24### My Shaarli is broken!
25First of all, ensure that both the [web server](Server-configuration) and
26[Shaarli](Shaarli-configuration) are correctly configured, and that your
27installation is [supported](Server-configuration).
28
29If everything looks right but the issue(s) remain(s), please:
30
31- take a look at the [troubleshooting](Troubleshooting) section
32- come [chat with us](https://gitter.im/shaarli/Shaarli) on Gitter, we'll be happy to help ;-)
33- browse active [issues](https://github.com/shaarli/Shaarli/issues) and [Pull Requests](https://github.com/shaarli/Shaarli/pulls)
34 - if you find one that is related to the issue, feel free to comment and provide additional details (host/Shaarli setup)
35 - else, [open a new issue](https://github.com/shaarli/Shaarli/issues/new), and provide information about the problem:
36 - _what happens?_ - display glitches, invalid data, security flaws...
37 - _what is your configuration?_ - OS, server version, activated extensions, web browser...
38 - _is it reproducible?_
39
40### Why not use a real database? Files are slow!
41
42Does browsing [this page](http://sebsauvage.net/links/) feel slow? Try browsing older pages, too.
43
44It's not slow at all, is it? And don't forget the database contains more than 16000 links, and it's on a shared host, with 32000 visitors/day for my website alone. And it's still damn fast. Why?
45
46The data file is only 3.7 Mb. It's read 99% of the time, and is probably already in the operation system disk cache. So generating a page involves no I/O at all most of the time.