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Managing instance configuration

Every command should be ran as the pleroma user from it's home directory. For example if you are superuser, you would have to wrap the command in su pleroma -s $SHELL -lc "$COMMAND".

From source note about MIX_ENV

The mix command should be prefixed with the name of environment your Pleroma server is running in, usually it's MIX_ENV=prod

Generate a new configuration file

 ./bin/pleroma_ctl instance gen [option ...]

mix pleroma.instance gen [option ...]

If any of the options are left unspecified, you will be prompted interactively.

Options

  • -f, --force - overwrite any output files
  • -o <path>, --output <path> - the output file for the generated configuration
  • --output-psql <path> - the output file for the generated PostgreSQL setup
  • --domain <domain> - the domain of your instance
  • --instance-name <instance_name> - the name of your instance
  • --admin-email <email> - the email address of the instance admin
  • --notify-email <email> - email address for notifications
  • --dbhost <hostname> - the hostname of the PostgreSQL database to use
  • --dbname <database_name> - the name of the database to use
  • --dbuser <username> - the user (aka role) to use for the database connection
  • --dbpass <password> - the password to use for the database connection
  • --rum <Y|N> - Whether to enable RUM indexes
  • --indexable <Y|N> - Allow/disallow indexing site by search engines
  • --db-configurable <Y|N> - Allow/disallow configuring instance from admin part
  • --uploads-dir <path> - the directory uploads go in when using a local uploader
  • --static-dir <path> - the directory custom public files should be read from (custom emojis, frontend bundle overrides, robots.txt, etc.)
  • --listen-ip <ip> - the ip the app should listen to, defaults to 127.0.0.1
  • --listen-port <port> - the port the app should listen to, defaults to 4000
  • --strip-uploads-location <Y|N> - use ExifTool to strip uploads of sensitive location data
  • --read-uploads-description <Y|N> - use ExifTool to read image descriptions from uploads
  • --anonymize-uploads <Y|N> - randomize uploaded filenames
  • --dedupe-uploads <Y|N> - store files based on their hash to reduce data storage requirements if duplicates are uploaded with different filenames
  • --skip-release-env - skip generation the release environment file
  • --release-env-file - release environment file path