(Update: StatusNet is now merged into GNU social)
StatusNet is a federated microblogging service. This is how I managed to setup a local server on my laptop under MAMP.
- Set MAMP PHP version to 5.2.*
- Extract tar into htdocs
- Fix permissions
- Replace .htaccess with the htaccess.sample, filling out the values manually
- Add statusnet database using phpmyadmin
- Make sure statusnet database user has all the permissions.
- Apply this patch. If this isn’t applied doing a tweet status update will result in a HTTP 500.
- Run the install script
StatusNet should now be running locally and be fully functional.