wardTried to set up a mastodon instance with digital ocean... And their one click installation didn't set up an admin account for me (web interface says access denied) and it seems to not have installed rails. It's probably slightly over my head, but has anyone else had this issue? Lastly, from the cli, when I switch to the user "mastodon" it asks for a password but I don't see anywhere that it was provided... So I can't do any commands as that user. #mastodonserver #digitalocean
Jason Schertzinger 
Michael Stanclift@virtzinger @wardhale I have never used the one click installer, most of my setup runs in Docker containers.
@vmstan @virtzinger I might just try this. It seems others are also reporting that their user has no admin rights in the browser when doing the one click installation. I'm just not good at docker lol.
@wardhale
I know you’re also looking a different server, but Digitial Ocean just published this:
https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-install-mastodon-on-ubuntu-20-04
I know you’re also looking a different server, but Digitial Ocean just published this:
https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-install-mastodon-on-ubuntu-20-04
not bad... I actually spun one of those up, but this would have helped, lol... I ended up installing Misskey as well, then discovered it can't export/import accounts to mastodon... so I'm installing calckey now (a fork). Looks like it has more features and should scale way better than mastodon.
https://codeberg.org/calckey/calckey
ever looked into it?
Ronathon Livingston Seagull@wardhale I'm almost certain that the first time you connect as root, it will guide you through the rest of the install on the commandline. Connect as root via the DO console.
@nebkor cheers! Yeah I did all that and it was very straight forward. Everything seems to work and the website works/is live. However my account has no admin privileges on the browser. I read I need to use the "mastodon" user on the cli to fix this but I have no idea what the password for that user is. So I'm stuck there.
@wardhale you can "su - mastodon" as root to become the mastodon user.
@wardhale and from there, set the mastodon user's password as that user, or set it from root's account. I made an account for myself, added my public ssh key, and added myself to sudoers so I could become the mastodon user as necessary, without having to log in as root directly.