From aa1213e0890efd93d9a2531e78bc70fc08154d7a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Eugen Rochko <eugen@zeonfederated.com>
Date: Tue, 7 Feb 2017 23:57:30 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Add postgres setup instructions to docs
---
docs/Running-Mastodon/Production-guide.md | 13 ++++++++++++-
1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/docs/Running-Mastodon/Production-guide.md b/docs/Running-Mastodon/Production-guide.md
index ff4427dd2..a6c776f09 100644
--- a/docs/Running-Mastodon/Production-guide.md
+++ b/docs/Running-Mastodon/Production-guide.md
@@ -87,6 +87,17 @@ It is recommended to create a special user for mastodon on the server (you could
sudo apt-get install postgresql postgresql-contrib
+Setup a user and database for Mastodon:
+
+ sudo su - postgres
+ psql
+
+In the prompt:
+
+ CREATE USER mastodon CREATEDB;
+ CREATE DATABASE mastodon_production OWNER mastodon;
+ \q
+
## Rbenv
It is recommended to use rbenv (exclusively from the `mastodon` user) to install the desired Ruby version. Follow the guides to [install rbenv][1] and [rbenv-build][2] (I recommend checking the [prerequisites][3] for your system on the rbenv-build project and installing them beforehand, obviously outside the unprivileged `mastodon` user)
@@ -122,7 +133,7 @@ Fill in the important data, like host/port of the redis database, host/port/user
rake secret
-To get a random string.
+To get a random string. If you are setting up on one single server (most likely), then REDIS_HOST is localhost and `DB_HOST` is `/var/run/postgresql`, `DB_USER` is `mastodon` and `DB_NAME` is `mastodon_production` while `DB_PASS` is empty because this setup will use the ident authentication method (system user "mastodon" maps to postgres user "mastodon").
## Setup