How can I make the landing page for my instance show About or at least login?

feoh · March 20, 2018, 11:24am

Right now if you navigate to my instance’s landing page at http://amicable.feoh.org you get the empty profile for @admin.

I’d like to have it display the About page. Or, if that’s not possible, the global timeline, or at least something other than an empty profile

Thanks in advance, totally impressed with Mastodon!

saper · March 21, 2018, 11:32pm

This is what happens if you configure your instance as a single-user instance. You can restore the default behaviour with SINGLE_USER_MODE=false

feoh · March 22, 2018, 1:14pm

Thanks! That makes sense. Any way to get it to show another user instead?

saper · March 23, 2018, 7:32am

It just takes the first user from the database:

github.com

tootsuite/mastodon/blob/6cc432bbc4b6ba64f71e559e7614144c2610eda1/app/controllers/home_controller.rb#L60


    current_account: current_account,
    token: current_session.token,
    admin: Account.find_local(Setting.site_contact_username),
  }
end


def default_redirect_path
  if request.path.start_with?('/web')
    new_user_session_path
  elsif single_user_mode?
    short_account_path(Account.first)
  else
    about_path
  end
end
end

feoh · March 25, 2018, 3:05am

Hrrm. Thanks for the pointer to the source code. I suppose if I wanted to make a custom change I could hard code it to look up the ‘feoh’ user which is what I want.

I know deleting a user isn’t always easy because of foreign key constraint violations and the like, or else I’d ask if I could just delete “admin” with no ill effects?

Thanks again for taking the time to respond. I do appreciate it!