Install a Mastodon Server on Ubuntu 20.04 Errors

[stawze]

Link: https://www.linode.com/docs/guides/install-mastodon-on-ubuntu-2004/

Issue

Postgres database is not initialising properly

I get the following error:

FATAL: role "mastodon" does not exist

If I change the user to default "postgres" I get this error:

FATAL: database "mastodon_production" does not exist

I am not sure how to fix this

[stawze]

Docker-compose.yml:

version: "3.7"

services:
  db:
    restart: always
    image: postgres:14-alpine
    environment:
      POSTGRES_PASSWORD: password
      POSTGRES_DB: mastodon_production
      POSTGRES_USER: postgres
    shm_size: 256mb
    networks:
      - internal_network
    healthcheck:
      test: ['CMD', 'pg_isready', '-U', 'postgres']
    volumes:
      - ./postgres14:/var/lib/postgresql/data
    environment:
      - 'POSTGRES_HOST_AUTH_METHOD=trust'

  redis:
    restart: always
    image: redis:7-alpine
    networks:
      - internal_network
    healthcheck:
      test: ['CMD', 'redis-cli', 'ping']
    volumes:
      - ./redis:/data

  web:
    image: tootsuite/mastodon
    restart: always
    env_file: .env.production
    command: bash -c "rm -f /mastodon/tmp/pids/server.pid; bundle exec rails s -p 3000"
    networks:
      - external_network
      - internal_network
    healthcheck:
      # prettier-ignore
      test: ['CMD-SHELL', 'wget -q --spider --proxy=off localhost:3000/health || exit 1']
    ports:
      - '127.0.0.1:3000:3000'
    depends_on:
      - db
      - redis
      # - es
    volumes:
      - ./public/system:/mastodon/public/system

  streaming:
    image: tootsuite/mastodon
    restart: always
    env_file: .env.production
    command: node ./streaming
    networks:
      - external_network
      - internal_network
    healthcheck:
      # prettier-ignore
      test: ['CMD-SHELL', 'wget -q --spider --proxy=off localhost:4000/api/v1/streaming/health || exit 1']
    ports:
      - '127.0.0.1:4000:4000'
    depends_on:
      - db
      - redis

  sidekiq:
    build: .
    image: tootsuite/mastodon
    restart: always
    env_file: .env.production
    command: bundle exec sidekiq
    depends_on:
      - db
      - redis
    networks:
      - external_network
      - internal_network
    volumes:
      - ./public/system:/mastodon/public/system
    healthcheck:
      test: ['CMD-SHELL', "ps aux | grep '[s]idekiq\ 6' || false"]

networks:
  external_network:
  internal_network:
    internal: true

[stawze]

.env.production:

# This is a sample configuration file. You can generate your configuration
# with the `rake mastodon:setup` interactive setup wizard, but to customize
# your setup even further, you'll need to edit it manually. This sample does
# not demonstrate all available configuration options. Please look at
# https://docs.joinmastodon.org/admin/config/ for the full documentation.

# Note that this file accepts slightly different syntax depending on whether
# you are using `docker-compose` or not. In particular, if you use
# `docker-compose`, the value of each declared variable will be taken verbatim,
# including surrounding quotes.
# See: https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/16895

# Federation
# ----------
# This identifies your server and cannot be changed safely later
# ----------
LOCAL_DOMAIN=[domain]

# Redis
# -----
REDIS_HOST=mastodon_redis_1
REDIS_PORT=6379

# PostgreSQL
# ----------
DB_HOST=mastodon_db_1
DB_USER=postgres
DB_NAME=mastodon_production
DB_PASS=password
DB_PORT=5432

# Elasticsearch (optional)
# ------------------------
ES_ENABLED=true
ES_HOST=localhost
ES_PORT=9200
# Authentication for ES (optional)
ES_USER=elastic
ES_PASS=password

# Secrets
# -------
# Make sure to use `rake secret` to generate secrets
# -------
SECRET_KEY_BASE=[secret]
OTP_SECRET=[secret]

# Web Push
# --------
# Generate with `rake mastodon:webpush:generate_vapid_key`
# --------
VAPID_PRIVATE_KEY=[key]
VAPID_PUBLIC_KEY=[key]

# Sending mail
# ------------
SMTP_SERVER=smtp.gmail.com
SMTP_PORT=587
SMTP_LOGIN=[email]
SMTP_PASSWORD=[app password]
SMTP_FROM_ADDRESS=notifications@[domain]
SMTP_AUTH_METHOD=plain
SMTP_OPENSSL_VERIFY_MODE=none

# File storage (optional)
# -----------------------
S3_ENABLED=false
S3_BUCKET=files.example.com
AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID=
AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY=
S3_ALIAS_HOST=files.example.com

# IP and session retention
# -----------------------
# Make sure to modify the scheduling of ip_cleanup_scheduler in config/sidekiq.yml
# to be less than daily if you lower IP_RETENTION_PERIOD below two days (172800).
# -----------------------
IP_RETENTION_PERIOD=31556952
SESSION_RETENTION_PERIOD=31556952

[Rajakavitha1]

Just tested and validated the instructions in the guide. And it works as documented. Can you please check if you provided the same details .

Run Mastodon’s Docker Compose setup script. You are prompted to enter information about the Docker Compose services and the Mastodon instance.

docker compose run --rm web bundle exec rake mastodon:setup

Many prompts repeat fields you completed in the .env.production file. Make sure to enter the same information here as you entered in the file.

When prompted to create a Mastodon administrator user account, choose to do so (Y). Enter the username, password, and email address you would like to use to access the account.

For any other prompts, enter the default values by pressing Enter.

[Rajakavitha1]

closing this issue for now. Please feel free to reopen if any other issues needs to be addressed.