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Updating mastodon (v4.0.2 to v4.1.2)

Updating mastodon (v4.0.2 to v4.1.2)

💡These steps are based on updating from v4.0.2 to v4.1.2. And is based on my installation (instructions are here). Hopefully you might get some use out of this if you need to update your machine, but I make no promises. Login on the machine using ssh

Enable swap on linux

Enable swap on linux

Since I keep forgetting how to enable swap (the ability to use your harddrive as extra ram). Instructions Log in using SSH fallocate -l 2G /swapfile1 chown root:root /swapfile1 chmod 0600 /swapfile1 mkswap /swapfile1 swapon /swapfile1 vi /etc/fstab # See content below (you can also use nano or another

Updating mastodon (v3.5.3 to v4.0.1)

Updating mastodon (v3.5.3 to v4.0.1)

⚠️This update was a bit problematic because my machine didn't have enough memory (my machine has 1GB) and that same day v4.0.2 came out. Still, this were all the steps I had to perform. These are the steps to upgrade mastodon from v3.5.3 to v4.0.

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Mastodon server tutorial

A step by step tutorial to create your own mastodon server (including screenshots) on Digital Ocean. It includes the mail server and the S3 bucket for images. A quick note: This tutorial was written for v3.5.3 and minutes after writing it a new version of Mastodon arrives. Preparing