Configuring Environment Settings for the 1-Click Mastodon Installer
Channel: Reclaim Hosting
Date: 21/06/2023

This video is meant as a follow-up to the Mastodon 1-Click Installer video here: https://youtu.be/o-MRhJRew3Y

We take you through how to Configure your Environment Variable for your Mastodon instance once it is installed: https://docs.joinmastodon.org/admin/config/

The two configurations focused on the following:
How to add variable for external object storage through a S3-enabled service like Digital Ocean's Spaces, Cloudflare's R2, etc. https://docs.joinmastodon.org/admin/optional/object-storage/

How to setup a SMTP transactional email variables:
https://docs.joinmastodon.org/admin/config/#smtp 

This guide builds on the brilliant guide (https://support.reclaimhosting.com/hc/en-us/articles/11874719336087-Running-Mastodon-on-Reclaim-Cloud#configuration-0-4) Taylor Jadin wrote for the 1-click Mastodon installer, and a key set of commands you need to use every time you change the environment file:
cd /root/mastodon
docker-compose down
docker-compose up -d