From 78552ab8505b724afe5cecbeec6e9a035327ad6f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Eugen Rochko Date: Tue, 7 Feb 2017 23:57:30 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] Add postgres setup instructions to docs --- docs/Running-Mastodon/Production-guide.md | 13 ++++++++++++- 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/docs/Running-Mastodon/Production-guide.md b/docs/Running-Mastodon/Production-guide.md index ff4427dd28..a6c776f092 100644 --- a/docs/Running-Mastodon/Production-guide.md +++ b/docs/Running-Mastodon/Production-guide.md @@ -87,6 +87,17 @@ It is recommended to create a special user for mastodon on the server (you could sudo apt-get install postgresql postgresql-contrib +Setup a user and database for Mastodon: + + sudo su - postgres + psql + +In the prompt: + + CREATE USER mastodon CREATEDB; + CREATE DATABASE mastodon_production OWNER mastodon; + \q + ## Rbenv It is recommended to use rbenv (exclusively from the `mastodon` user) to install the desired Ruby version. Follow the guides to [install rbenv][1] and [rbenv-build][2] (I recommend checking the [prerequisites][3] for your system on the rbenv-build project and installing them beforehand, obviously outside the unprivileged `mastodon` user) @@ -122,7 +133,7 @@ Fill in the important data, like host/port of the redis database, host/port/user rake secret -To get a random string. +To get a random string. If you are setting up on one single server (most likely), then REDIS_HOST is localhost and `DB_HOST` is `/var/run/postgresql`, `DB_USER` is `mastodon` and `DB_NAME` is `mastodon_production` while `DB_PASS` is empty because this setup will use the ident authentication method (system user "mastodon" maps to postgres user "mastodon"). ## Setup