Mastodon is a free, open-source, federated social networking platform. In this tutorial, we will be showing you how to install Mastodon on Manjaro using Docker.
Before we get started, you will need:
If you don't have Docker and docker-compose installed on your Manjaro server, you can do so by running the following commands:
sudo pacman -S docker
sudo pacman -S docker-compose
Next, we need to clone the Mastodon repository on our Manjaro server. We can do so with the following command:
git clone https://github.com/tootsuite/mastodon.git
This will create a mastodon directory in your current directory.
In order to run Mastodon, we will need to configure it first. Navigate to the Mastodon directory and copy the sample environment configuration file:
cd mastodon
cp .env.production.sample .env.production
Next, open the .env.production file in your favorite text editor and modify the following environment variables:
LOCAL_DOMAIN: Set this to the hostname of your Mastodon instance (for example, mastodon.example.com).SMTP_SERVER: Set this to the SMTP server that will send emails (for example, smtp.gmail.com).SMTP_LOGIN: Set this to the email address to use as the SMTP login (for example, yourname@gmail.com).SMTP_PASSWORD: Set this to the password for the SMTP login (for example, yourpassword).Now that we have Mastodon configured, we can start the Docker containers:
docker-compose up --build
This command will start all the necessary containers and build any dependencies.
Once the containers are up and running, you should be able to access Mastodon via your web browser at the URL https://<YOUR-LOCAL-DOMAIN>. You will need to create an account and set up your Mastodon instance before it can be used.
In this tutorial, we have shown you how to install Mastodon on Manjaro. Now that you have Mastodon up and running, you can start using it to connect with your friends and communities.
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