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New installed instance , no upload in any kind

qatuno 2017-06-28 19:28:21 UTC #1

hello ,

i used some guide to set up a new instance:

https://github.com/ummjackson/mastodon-guide/blob/master/up-and-running.md / found a wrong order in installation step
to get the 3rd secret

https://github.com/Chronister/cybrespace-meta/blob/master/s3.md / looks good. getting logs in AWS

but still have the question , why i get no upload to server , and why is no contend visabel? but connections are up

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qatuno 2017-06-28 18:31:35 UTC #2

hello . i am running https://eifelcoworking.space since a few tries. But i always get no upload for any contend.
I used this https://github.com/ummjackson/mastodon-guide/blob/master/up-and-running.md for installation my VPS.
First i have to say :

needed to switch this 2 steps, to get the 3rd secret
--
docker-compose build <== this may take a while, go make yourself a cup of tea ️

Now that the image is built, we're going to generate 3 secret keys that are required for the configuration. Run this command 3 times and note down each of the keys generated, we'll need them in a minute:

docker-compose run --rm web rake secret

--
but than there was in the "build" a fault about some ca.certificates ..? do not solfed the problem and , sorry me, still have no idea how to.?

some ideas would be very welcome

thank you for your kindness

maloki 2017-06-29 11:18:17 UTC #3

Merged your two posts together. As the 2nd one did not belong in the other thread.

nightpool 2017-06-29 14:53:28 UTC #4

What errors are you seeing? What problems are you having? I can't understand from your messages what you're trying to get help with.

qatuno 2017-06-29 18:27:19 UTC #5

while installing mastodon:

docker-compose run --rm web rake secret

is running into

1st ->

+-- uuid@3.1.0
+-- v8-compile-cache@1.1.0
-- validate-npm-package-license@3.0.1 +-- spdx-correct@1.0.2 |-- spdx-license-ids@1.2.2
`-- spdx-expression-parse@1.0.4

WARNING: ca-certificates.crt does not contain exactly one certificate or CRL: skipping
---> 0076c3f76149
Removing intermediate container 8be1094e3809

and 2nd-> fault message

yarn install v0.24.5
[1/4] Resolving packages...
[2/4] Fetching packages...
warning fsevents@1.1.2: The platform "linux" is incompatible with this module.
info "fsevents@1.1.2" is an optional dependency and failed compatibility check. Excluding it from installation.
warning store@1.3.20: The engine "browser" appears to be invalid.
[3/4] Linking dependencies...
warning "chai-enzyme@0.7.1" has incorrect peer dependency "chai@3.x".

later the behavior of the instance is faulty.
there are no images uploadable . profiles are not customizable . all user profiles are at default image and also on other instances they are just in default image.

nightpool 2017-06-29 18:48:11 UTC #6

none of those errors seem to be at all related to your later issues.

what errors are you seeing on the client side?

qatuno 2017-06-29 19:04:24 UTC #7

what do you want exactly to know? I see no errors. There are this faults , that there is no realy working instance like i
told.
what do you mean "client side" ?

may be there are some rights not set for some path? but this was not documented in the guide.
some the files are not able to store? just a guess.

danielolivas 2017-06-30 03:34:01 UTC #8

@qatuno i run a non-docker instance, but maybe you should check out the official docker guide below, considering it's updated frequently.

github.com

tootsuite/documentation/blob/master/Running-Mastodon/Docker-Guide.md

## Docker

[![](https://images.microbadger.com/badges/version/gargron/mastodon.svg)](https://microbadger.com/images/gargron/mastodon "Get your own version badge on microbadger.com") [![](https://images.microbadger.com/badges/image/gargron/mastodon.svg)](https://microbadger.com/images/gargron/mastodon "Get your own image badge on microbadger.com")

The project now includes a `Dockerfile` and a `docker-compose.yml` file (which requires at least docker-compose version `1.10.0`).

## Prerequisites

- Working basic (Linux) server with Nginx (or Apache2; not officially supported).
- Recent stable version of [Docker](https://www.docker.com/community-edition).
- Recent stable version of [Docker-compose](https://github.com/docker/compose/releases/latest).

## Setting up

Clone Mastodon's repository.

    git clone git@github.com:tootsuite/mastodon.git
    cd mastodon

Review the settings in `docker-compose.yml`. Note that it is **not default** to store the postgresql database and redis databases in a persistent storage location. If you plan on running your instance in production, you **must** uncomment the [`volumes` directive](https://github.com/tootsuite/mastodon/blob/972f6bc861affd9bc40181492833108f905a04b6/docker-compose.yml#L7-L16) in `docker-compose.yml`.

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qatuno 2017-06-30 08:51:42 UTC #9

as i understand this file i use is not needed to config. but i had a look inside to doublecheck. looks good as far.

i still think there is a conflict in my install user .

so we tried to run chown -R 991:991 public/system again with no effect.

still trying. some ideas !

But a question into the field : how many admin running mastodon virtual on a virtual machine?
I got an answer back from my VPS provider . Tell could be a problem .. so tell me your opinion

qatuno 2017-06-30 15:22:55 UTC #10

do you think it is a problem running docker and mastodon on a VPS? i got this answer by support team of VPS contributor

petersmith 2017-06-30 15:28:37 UTC #11

I run mine on docker on digital ocean VPS with no issues. That chown command likely needs to be run within the docker container tho, not from the host. as thats where user/group 991 exists I think.

I accomplished similar on mine by, from the host, running sudo chmod -R 755 system/ from within the public directory

qatuno 2017-06-30 16:19:40 UTC #12

DB_USER=your_username
DB_NAME=your_databasename
DB_PASS=your_password

this is a part of may installation i do not understand.

is there a default ?

petersmith 2017-06-30 16:34:04 UTC #13

If using docker, you dont need to change these. Use as is in: https://github.com/tootsuite/mastodon/blob/master/.env.production.sample

If you want your database persistant, just uncomment the noted lines in docker-compose.yml: https://github.com/tootsuite/mastodon/blob/master/docker-compose.yml

qatuno 2017-06-30 18:01:32 UTC #14

after i set database persistant, docker is not able toe rebuild the database ? . is this right ?

petersmith 2017-07-01 10:13:49 UTC #15

If you rebuild it you lose everything in it. Thats kinda the point of keeping it persistent.

qatuno 2017-07-01 12:19:51 UTC #16

1 i changed it into the "persistant" setup .

2 i added this https://serverfault.com/a/804207/423002

3 but still get a 500Internal Server Error when upload some content.

maloki 2017-07-02 10:45:15 UTC #17

How much disk space do you have on the server?

qatuno 2017-07-02 15:51:44 UTC #18

~ 300Gb 50% /boot

the VPS , still building ruby ( ruby-2.4.0)
and nokogiri -> gem install nokogiri

i think i was missmatched with the db image. because last tries i could not access it.
now i tried centos VPS / and the docker version of mastodon .

used the bitnami stack for redis and postgresqp / don't ask why

maloki 2017-07-02 16:21:20 UTC #19

So it works now?

Also, may I ask if your preferred language is something other than English, so maybe we can find someone in our community who is fluent in that and can help you in that instead?

qatuno 2017-07-02 16:34:50 UTC #20

i do not know. nginx is not yet above . centos7 is a little bit "crunchy"

rubygems-2.6.12]$ gem install bundler
ERROR: Error installing bundler:
invalid gem: package is corrupt, exception while verifying: undefined method `path2class' for # (NoMethodError) in /home/mastodon/.gem/ruby/cache/bundler-1.15.1.gem