Dhertz / mastodon

Deploy Mastodon To Render

This is a template repository for running Mastodon on Render.

Prerequisites

Make sure you have the following:

• A SMTP credential from third party SMTP service provider.
• A Render account.

Deployment

1. Fork this repo.

2. Click to deploy

   

3. You will be prompted to input the VAPID private/public key and SMTP setting. You can put any placeholder string for the VAPID key for now.

4. After all services are created, in the Render dashboard, find the mastodon-web service. Go to the Shell tab and run bundle exec rake mastodon:webpush:generate_vapid_key. Copy the private key and public key and update VAPID_PRIVATE_KEY and VAPID_PUBLIC_KEY in the Environment tab.

5. That's it. Open the mastodon-web-<anything>.onrender.com URL of the mastodon-web service and your Mastodon website is up.

Notes

• If you have your own domain, update MY_LOCAL_DOMAIN in the render.yaml. The value will be used in Mastodon's LOCAL_DOMAIN environment variable.