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I'm trying to use [[Mastodon Social|Mastodon]] with [[Apache web server|Apache]] and [[MySQL]], for reasons I can go into, rather than the apparently-assumed defaults of [[nginx]] and [[Postgres]]. (It's never explicitly stated "no, Mastodon will not work with anything else", but this may turn out to be the case.)
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I was originally trying to use [[Mastodon Social|Mastodon]] with [[Apache web server|Apache]] and [[MySQL]] (for reasons I can go into), rather than the apparently-assumed defaults of [[nginx]] and [[Postgres]]. It's never explicitly stated "no, Mastodon will not work with anything else", but this pretty much turned out to be the case -- so for my second attempt, I started over with a completely fresh server... and got stuck again anyway.
  
 
I'm using [https://github.com/tootsuite/documentation/blob/master/Running-Mastodon/Production-guide.md these instructions] as a guide.
 
I'm using [https://github.com/tootsuite/documentation/blob/master/Running-Mastodon/Production-guide.md these instructions] as a guide.
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==Notes==
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* [[/take 1]] was where I foolishly tried to use MySQL instead of postgres
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* Created a virtual server for Mastodon (icmstdn.com) using [[Virtualmin]].
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* [[/take 2]] was where I tried to do it by the book, approximately May-July of 2017
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* Used [[Git]] to clone Mastodon ([https://github.com/tootsuite/mastodon repository] [https://github.com/tootsuite/mastodon.git clone URL]) into a subfolder of public_html
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* [[/take 3]] is trying to do it by the book again on 2017-12-31, but after installing Redmine from a package
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** Mastodon's files are now in /home/icmstdn/public_html/mastodon
 
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* Created file .env.production (it didn't already exist) and then took a look at .env.production.sample to see what needs to be set.
 
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===Database===
 
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There doesn't seem to be any way to tell it which db engine to use -- but this looks like it ''could'' be a standard Ruby or [[Ruby on Rails]] config file -- so let's check my [[Redmine]] installation (which uses MySQL) to see if there are any clues...
 
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Nope, no joy there.
 
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Tentatively, Mastodon appears to be too tightly intertwined with Postgres to even attempt to use another dbe without a substantial rewrite (see [https://toot.cat/@browneyedgirl/332331 this] and the accompanying thread).
 
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So I've set up a completely fresh virtual server with 2GB of RAM, and am following the instructions almost to the letter ("almost" because I prefer to do everything as root rather than having to type "sudo" over and over again... and also using "apt" instead of "apt-get" because the former is slightly more friendly).
 

Latest revision as of 12:20, 31 December 2017

I was originally trying to use Mastodon with Apache and MySQL (for reasons I can go into), rather than the apparently-assumed defaults of nginx and Postgres. It's never explicitly stated "no, Mastodon will not work with anything else", but this pretty much turned out to be the case -- so for my second attempt, I started over with a completely fresh server... and got stuck again anyway.

I'm using these instructions as a guide.

  • /take 1 was where I foolishly tried to use MySQL instead of postgres
  • /take 2 was where I tried to do it by the book, approximately May-July of 2017
  • /take 3 is trying to do it by the book again on 2017-12-31, but after installing Redmine from a package
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