This may not be up to date as I have fallen behind, current production guide can be found here

https://github.com/tootsuite/documentation/blob/master/Running-Mastodon/Production-guide.md

Instance Setup/Research/Walkthrough

This guide assumes you are running Ubuntu 16.04 on an EC2 instance. It should work elsewhere but this is the only config it has been tested on. This instance is running 16.04 64-bit with a 30G drive on the free tier.

Update/Ugrade

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade

Create mastodon user, give them sudo and switch to user

sudo adduser --ingroup admin mastodon
su mastodon
cd

Dependencies

wget -O node_setup_4_x.sh https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_4.x
sudo chmod +x node_setup_4_x.sh
sudo bash node_setup_4_x.sh
sudo apt-get install imagemagick ffmpeg libpq-dev libxml2-dev libxslt1-dev nodejs file nginx redis-server redis-tools postgresql postgresql-contrib autoconf bison build-essential libssl-dev libyaml-dev libreadline6-dev zlib1g-dev libncurses5-dev libffi-dev libgdbm3 libgdbm-dev
sudo npm install -g yarn

Nginx

Confirm it works systemctl status nginx

Check firewall sudo ufw app list

Letsencrypt

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:certbot/certbot
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install certbot
sudo certbot certonly --rsa-key-size 4096 --register-unsafely-without-email

Configure

see 'etc/nginx/sites-enabled/default', change domain and root settings

restart nginx

sudo systemctl restart nginx

Postgres

sudo -u postgres psql
CREATE USER mastodon CREATEDB;
\q

Ruby

git clone https://github.com/rbenv/rbenv.git ~/.rbenv
echo 'export PATH="$HOME/.rbenv/bin:$PATH"' >> ~/.bashrc
echo 'eval "$(rbenv init -)"' >> ~/.bashrc
source ~/.bashrc

confirm the install with type rbenv

output should be

rbenv is a function
rbenv ()
{
  local command;
  command="$1";
  if [ "$#" -gt 0 ]; then
    shift;
  fi;
  case "$command" in
    rehash | shell)
      eval "$(rbenv "sh-$command" "$@")"
    ;;
    *)
      command rbenv "$command" "$@"
    ;;
  esac
}

setup ruby-build git clone https://github.com/rbenv/ruby-build.git ~/.rbenv/plugins/ruby-build
install ruby rbenv install 2.4.1

Clone the repo

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

install dependencies

gem install bundler
bundle install --deployment --without development test
yarn install

Configure Mastodon

see .env.production

run rake 3 times and copy where indicated in .env.production
```
./bin/rake secret
```

Setup DB

RAILS_ENV=production bundle exec rails db:setup
RAILS_ENV=production bundle exec rails assets:precompile

Systemd

see etc/systemd/system/mastodon-*

copy to /etc/systemd/system/

start: sudo systemctl start mastodon-*

stop : sudo systemctl stop mastodon-*

Updating

Normal Update Procedure

in the mastodon folder...

git pull
bundle install
yarn install
RAILS_ENV=production bundle exec rails db:migrate
RAILS_ENV=production bundle exec rails assets:precompile
sudo systemctl restart mastodon-*

Updating from prior to V1.1.1

in the mastodon folder...

rbenv install 2.4.1
git pull
gem install bundler
rbenv rehash
bundle install
yarn install
RAILS_ENV=production bundle exec rails db:migrate
RAILS_ENV=production bundle exec rails assets:precompile
sudo systemctl restart mastodon-*