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Add separate sections for Heroku and Vagrant deployments. Add guide for instance administration. Move 'Contribution guide' to 'Development guide'.
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Administration guide
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So, you have a working Mastodon instance... now what?
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## Turning into an admin
The following rake task:
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RAILS_ENV=production bundle exec rails mastodon:make_admin USERNAME=alice
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Would turn the local user "alice" into an admin.
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## Administration web interface
A user that is designated as `admin = TRUE` in the database is able to access a suite of administration tools:
* View, edit, silence, or suspend users - https://yourmastodon.instance/admin/accounts
* View PubSubHubbub subscriptions - https://yourmastodon.instance/admin/pubsubhubbub
* View domain blocks - https://yourmastodon.instance/admin/domain_blocks
* Sidekiq dashboard - https://yourmastodon.instance/sidekiq
* PGHero dashboard for PostgreSQL - https://yourmastodon.instance/pghero
* Edit site settings - https://yourmastodon.instance/admin/settings
## Site settings
Your site settings are stored in the `settings` database table, and editable through the admin interface at https://yourmastodon.instance/admin/settings.
You are able to set the following settings:
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- Site title
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- Contact username
- Contact email
- Site description
- Site extended description
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You may wish to use the extended description (shown at https://yourmastodon.instance/about/more ) to display content guidelines or a user agreement (see https://mastodon.social/about/more for an example).
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## Confirming Users Manually
The following rake task:
RAILS_ENV=production bundle exec rails mastodon:confirm_email USER_EMAIL=alice@alice.com
Will confirm a user manually, in case they don't have access to their confirmation email for whatever reason.
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## Clearing Unconfirmed Users Manually
RAILS_ENV=production rake mastodon:users:clear
Will remove users that never confirmed their e-mail and never signed in, meaning they
only have a user record and an avatar record, with no files uploaded.
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## Mastodon-admin mailing list
There's a mailing list open for mastodon instance admins at
https://lists.ffdn.org/wws/info/mastodon-admin. Feel free to join that list for all your questions and to get some feedback
from other admins!