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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.) | + | 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. |
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| | 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. |
| − | ==Notes==
| + | * [[/take 1]] was where I foolishly tried to use MySQL instead of postgres |
| − | * Created a virtual server for Mastodon (icmstdn.com) using [[Virtualmin]]. | + | * [[/take 2]] was where I tried to do it by the book, approximately May-July of 2017 |
| − | * 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 | + | * [[/take 3]] is trying to do it by the book again on 2017-12-31, but after installing Redmine from a package |
| − | ** 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. | |
| − | ===Take 1===
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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).
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| − | ===Take 2===
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| − | Is there a better way to install "yarn"? I got a message saying "npm WARN deprecated yarn@0.22.0: It is recommended to install Yarn using the native installation method for your environment. See https://yarnpkg.com/en/docs/install" -- but then it seemed to work anyway... From the link, it looks like I'd be advised to set up the repository. Will do that at some point.
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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