@Andy H3 and @Michael Vogel

Thanks guys for the quick reply.

I forgot about being in the friendica folder. I'll do that.

@Michael Vogel you mention something about making sure that the script is executable. We are talking about what script?

Thanks again

@Andy H3
@Michael Vogel
Well, entered the command as I showed before, replacing the relay site:

bin/console relay add https://relay.mycrowd.ca/actor

It fails, shpowing this:
https://relay.mycrowd.ca/actor couldn't be added

The site is not accepting any? Or, there might be another issue?

You have any suggestions for other good relays?

Thanks

@Andy H3 @Michael Vogel

Thanks for the relay list. Lots to choose from:)

I tried one of them and the same error pops up again.

Why might the relay is not being added?

Thanks for any clues.

Joseph

@Michael Vogel
@Andy H3

I entered the command just as @Hypolite Petovan typed it in, and it does not like it. Here is the result:
root@social:/var/www/html# bin/console -v relay add https://relay.mycrowd.ca/actor
Executable: /var/www/html/bin/console.php
Arguments: array (
0 => 'add',
1 => 'https://relay.mycrowd.ca/actor',
)
Options: array (
'v' => 'relay',
)
Command: add
[Warning] Command add doesn't exist

Usage: bin/console [--version] [-h|--help|-?] <command> [<args>] [-v]

Commands:
addon Addon management
cache Manage node cache
config Edit site config
contact Contact management
createdoxygen Generate Doxygen headers
dbstructure Do database updates
docbloxerrorchecker Check the file tree for DocBlox errors
extract Generate translation string file for the Friendica project (deprecated)
globalcommunityblock Block remote profile from interacting with this node
globalcommunitysilence Silence a profile from the global community page
archivecontact Archive a contact when you know that it isn't existing anymore
help Show help about a command, e.g (bin/console help config)
autoinstall Starts automatic installation of friendica based on values from htconfig.php
lock Edit site locks
maintenance Set maintenance mode for this node
movetoavatarcache Move cached avatars to the file based avatar cache
mergecontacts Merge duplicated contact entries
user User management
php2po Generate a messages.po file from a strings.php file
po2php Generate a strings.php file from a messages.po file
typo Checks for parse errors in Friendica files
postupdate Execute pending post update scripts (can last days)
relocate Update node base URL
serverblock Manage blocked servers
storage Manage storage backend
relay Manage ActivityPub relay servers

Options:
-h|--help|-? Show help information
-v Show more debug information.
[Backtrace]:
#0 /var/www/html/src/Core/Console.php(157): Friendica\Core\Console->getSubConsole()
#1 /var/www/html/vendor/asika/simple-console/src/Console.php(108): Friendica\Core\Console->doExecute()
#2 /var/www/html/bin/console.php(45): Asika\SimpleConsole\Console->execute()
#3 {main}

Thanks for any ideas.

@Hypolite Petovan

Thanks for the change.

Here is the new output:
root@social:/var/www/html# bin/console relay add https://relay.mycrowd.ca/actor -v
Executable: /var/www/html/bin/console.php
Arguments: array (
0 => 'relay',
1 => 'add',
2 => 'https://relay.mycrowd.ca/actor',
)
Options: array (
'v' => 1,
)
Command: relay
Executable: /var/www/html/bin/console.php
Class: Friendica\Console\Relay
Arguments: array (
0 => 'add',
1 => 'https://relay.mycrowd.ca/actor',
)
Options: array (
'v' => 1,
)
https://relay.mycrowd.ca/actor couldn't be added

I tried, but no luck.

What does the error say?

I am still stuck with out the ability to add a relay. I am still open to other possible ideas on how to add them.

Anyone?

Thanks

@Andy H3 @Michael Vogel @Hypolite Petovan

I decided to look around and found no clues on the internet as to my issue. Only one conversation on github which did not lead to a solution.

Do I need to keep or remove the https://??

Examples show them being used.

Thanks

Well, I have gone through about 1/3 fo the relays on the relaylist.com page. They either:
can not add relay
this site is not a relay

I will keep trying the rest of the ones on the list. I will also try and figure out how to contact the admin of the sites and try and work with them.

In the meantime, if any of you use or know of bonifide working English or French language relays, I'd be happy to hear from you:)

Thanks for any leads:)

Hi @Fly Boy

I've not yet resolved my issue, but I was not able to sit down and play with friendica for a few days.

I went in and saw that my bin folder is:
4 drwxrwxr-x 3 www-data www-data 4096 Feb 20 13:39 bin

I went inside the bin flder and saw:
4 drwxrwxr-x 3 www-data www-data 4096 Feb 20 13:39 .
4 drwxrwxr-x 21 www-data www-data 4096 Feb 23 07:39 ..
4 -rwxrwxr-x 1 www-data www-data 3482 Feb 11 01:30 auth_ejabberd.php
1948 -rwxrwxr-x 1 www-data www-data 1993462 Feb 11 01:30 composer.phar
4 -rwxrwxr-x 1 www-data www-data 274 Feb 11 01:30 console
4 -rwxrwxr-x 1 www-data www-data 125 Feb 11 01:30 console.bat
4 -rwxrwxr-x 1 www-data www-data 1772 Feb 11 01:30 console.php
8 -rwxrwxr-x 1 www-data www-data 7059 Feb 11 01:30 daemon.php
4 drwxrwxr-x 3 www-data www-data 4096 Feb 11 01:30 dev
4 -rw-rw-r-- 1 www-data www-data 363 Feb 11 01:30 .htaccess
4 -rwxrwxr-x 1 www-data www-data 3592 Feb 11 01:30 run_xgettext.sh
4 -rw-rw-r-- 1 www-data www-data 1404 Feb 11 01:30 testargs.php
4 -rwxrwxr-x 1 www-data www-data 1964 Feb 11 01:30 wait-for-connection
4 -rwxrwxr-x 1 www-data www-data 2852 Feb 11 01:30 worker.php

all my files and folder all have the owners of www-data www-data
YOu can see the permissions are all 775 withthe exceotion of:
.htaccess
testargs.php

You asked me to run that command to change to www-data, but my foled and folders already have that.

What else might I look for to resolve the issue about what I can no successfully at the relays to my server?

Thanks

@Michael Vogel @Hypolite Petovan @Andy H3