# Confused with the latter half of installation instructions **URL:** \ **Category:** Help\ **Tags:** troubleshooting, writefreely\ **Created:** [April 7, 2020, 11:57pm UTC](https://discuss.write.as/t/confused-with-the-latter-half-of-installation-instructions/1247 "2020-04-07T23:57:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![P-UPPY](https://discuss.write.as/user_avatar/discuss.write.as/p-uppy/32/520_2.png) [@P-UPPY](https://discuss.write.as/u/P-UPPY)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2020, 11:57pm UTC](https://discuss.write.as/t/confused-with-the-latter-half-of-installation-instructions/1247/1 "2020-04-07T23:57:16Z")
Hi friends, first time attempting something like this before. I believe I have followed the installation instructions as accurately as possible, however, the end part relating to writefreely.service is throwing me off big time. **First question:** Do I simply save the text file as writefreely.service? That is what I have done currently. **Second:** when the bolded text says **/var/www/example.com** , is the [example.com](http://example.com) the domain I own? Also, what is /var/www? Very new to Ubuntu so any guidance would be helpful. Thanks for the assistance! 🙂 **Edit 1** So I think I’m making progress: I believe I need to include my domain in the /var/www/example.com. I have done so by creating a folder in /www/ and have then dragged and dropped the **writefreely** folder into it. However, I am now I’m encountering an error when trying to run `sudo journalctl -f -u writefreely` It produces the following error: ``` -- Logs begin at Wed 2020-04-08 00:01:21 BST. -- Apr 08 14:51:03 AMCosyClub systemd[4925]: writefreely.service: Failed to execute command: Permission denied Apr 08 14:51:03 AMCosyClub systemd[4925]: writefreely.service: Failed at step EXEC spawning /var/www/amcosy.club/writefreely: Permission denied Apr 08 14:51:03 AMCosyClub systemd[1]: writefreely.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=203/EXEC Apr 08 14:51:03 AMCosyClub systemd[1]: writefreely.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'. Apr 08 14:51:03 AMCosyClub systemd[1]: writefreely.service: Service hold-off time over, scheduling restart. Apr 08 14:51:03 AMCosyClub systemd[1]: writefreely.service: Scheduled restart job, restart counter is at 5. Apr 08 14:51:03 AMCosyClub systemd[1]: Stopped WriteFreely Instance. Apr 08 14:51:03 AMCosyClub systemd[1]: writefreely.service: Start request repeated too quickly. Apr 08 14:51:03 AMCosyClub systemd[1]: writefreely.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'. Apr 08 14:51:03 AMCosyClub systemd[1]: Failed to start WriteFreely Instance. ``` ---
**Author:** ![gytisrepecka](https://discuss.write.as/user_avatar/discuss.write.as/gytisrepecka/32/233_2.png) [@gytisrepecka](https://discuss.write.as/u/gytisrepecka)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2020, 11:43am UTC](https://discuss.write.as/t/confused-with-the-latter-half-of-installation-instructions/1247/2 "2020-04-09T11:43:06Z")
Path `/var/www/example.com` is example location of website files - HTTP server (Apache or Nginx) would by default store sites (domains) under `/var/www`, so you would need to replace `example.com` with your domain you want to use. Now this path heavily depends on whether your server has any hosting control panel installed or not. In case of cPanel, DirectAdmin, Vesta/Hestia or similar, sites typically reside under`/home`. Are you setting up WriteFreely on totally fresh Ubuntu server? When it comes to setting up system service, you can refer to [my guide on building WriteFreely from source](https://fedi.dev/gytis/build-writefreely-from-source) - I document there build process and installing on CentOS, but since Ubuntu uses `systemctl` to control services, similar applies anyway. ---
**Author:** ![P-UPPY](https://discuss.write.as/user_avatar/discuss.write.as/p-uppy/32/520_2.png) [@P-UPPY](https://discuss.write.as/u/P-UPPY)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2020, 12:12pm UTC](https://discuss.write.as/t/confused-with-the-latter-half-of-installation-instructions/1247/3 "2020-04-10T12:12:19Z")
Hi, thanks for the response. After a lot of troubleshooting over on ServerFault, I’ve decided to scrap the entire thing and start again. I’ve actually dug out a Raspberry Pi 4B and would like to try running it off that, would your guide be applicable still? I’m not as technical as I’d like to be but hopefully I can learn ^^ Alternatively, I could go ahead and install CentOS! ---
**Author:** ![gytisrepecka](https://discuss.write.as/user_avatar/discuss.write.as/gytisrepecka/32/233_2.png) [@gytisrepecka](https://discuss.write.as/u/gytisrepecka)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2020, 12:45pm UTC](https://discuss.write.as/t/confused-with-the-latter-half-of-installation-instructions/1247/4 "2020-04-10T12:45:16Z")
If you decide to [build from source](https://fedi.dev/gytis/build-writefreely-from-source), you can try it on Raspberry Pi or any other device that supports Go lang. Or you can use already compiled binary from [releases page](https://github.com/writeas/writefreely/releases). If not mistaken, RPi 4 is **arm64** architecture, so pick corresponding asset. Although if you are ready to go through building from source guide, it should be bullet-proof on CentOS 7 and most likely CentOS 8. If you will be using RPi’s default Raspbian (pretty much same as Ubuntu), some dependencies might have different package names and it will be `apt` instead of `yum` 😁 ---
**Author:** ![P-UPPY](https://discuss.write.as/user_avatar/discuss.write.as/p-uppy/32/520_2.png) [@P-UPPY](https://discuss.write.as/u/P-UPPY)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2020, 12:57pm UTC](https://discuss.write.as/t/confused-with-the-latter-half-of-installation-instructions/1247/5 "2020-04-10T12:57:51Z")
Thank you so much! I’ll give a go on CentOS7… surely I can’t mess that up! ^^ Will report back if I run into any problems! 😛