Rob
Day 2 trying to set up a mastodon/Fediverse instance... Have followed three different How-Tos, tried mastodon and two different alternatives... set up an empty server twice. I've never had so much trouble setting up a server software before! But, I'll persevere with this, as it's worth it!
Nov 13, 2022 at 6:05pmWeb
Show threadRobNov 15, 2022
Day 3.5 (well, it's 2am)
Finally!!
Show threadRobNov 15, 2022
Umpteen attempts to install Mastodon, Pleroma, Misskey, Calkkey and another I've forgotten the bands of. Reinstalled two versions of Ubuntu three times before I copied the VM so could reset from that.
In the end, with the release of mastodon 4, I went back to that. Clean install of Ubuntu 20.04, followed the step by step. Found it told me to set up Ruby 3.0.3 when it then required 3.0.4, but otherwise it actually only bloody worked!
Show threadRobNov 15, 2022
The next issue was getting it working behind my existing #nginx #proxy server. Default setup doesn't seem to like being accessed via IP address. Ended up hardcoding a proxy Host override in its local nginx proxy. That cured it.
Never was I so pleased to see that front page!
Show threadeuroplus Nov 15, 2022
@Irrelevant Congrats!
Show threadeuroplus Nov 14, 2022
@Irrelevant for various reasons I’ve set it up a few times now - there always seems to be one little thing I miss, or need to troubleshoot, then it all just comes together and works. Stick with it :)