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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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or, if using docker:
docker-compose run --rm web 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
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A user that is designated as `admin = TRUE` in the database is able to access a suite of administration tools, accessible from the sidebar under "Administration" from the preferences/edit profile page.
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## Site settings
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Your site settings are stored in the `settings` database table, and editable through the admin interface under "Administration" -> "Site settings".
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You are able to set settings such as, among others:
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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
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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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## Creating users while registration is closed
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RAILS_ENV=production bundle exec rails mastodon:add_user
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This will guide you through creating a new user interactively. The user will get a confirmation e-mail.
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## Activity monitoring
Munin graphs can be generated to track your instance activity.
* https://github.com/cquest/mastodon-munin-plugins
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* https://framagit.org/framasoft/munin-plugins/tree/master/mastodon
* https://github.com/0xa/mastodon-munin
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## Other admins
- There is a [Discourse messaging board](https://discourse.joinmastodon.org)
- There's a mailing list at https://lists.ffdn.org/wws/info/mastodon-admin.
Feel free to join for all your questions and to get some feedback from other admins!
## Instance directory
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If you want your instance to appear on the instance picker on joinmastodon.org or the instance directory/wizard on instances.social, you can [submit it to instances.social here](https://instances.social/admin)