Can I Use Mastodon With Contabo's Object Storage?
What is Mastodon?
Mastodon is a self-hosted social network platform. Contabo's Object Storage can be used to store users' content such as avatars, images and attachments. Please follow the installation instructions as described here in the Mastodon docs if you're interested in using Mastodon.
You will need the following information to setup Mastodon to work with Contabo's Object Storage:
- access_key
- secret_key
- Contabo's S3 URL
- your tenant ID
- your bucket name
Your tenant ID is shown when enabling public sharing for any object in the Object Storage Control Panel. It is the same for all buckets and objects in your account.
How do I setup Mastodon to work with Contabo's Object Storage?
Append these lines to your .env.production configuration file in the Mastodon directory:
S3_ENABLED=true
S3_BUCKET=mastodon
AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID=82046e8110804a43bf29c1ae426a724d
AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY=82e69bd7a52076c527154297a76c2233
S3_REGION=default
S3_PROTOCOL=https
S3_HOSTNAME=eu2.contabostorage.com
S3_ENDPOINT=https://eu2.contabostorage.com
S3_ALIAS_HOST=eu2.contabostorage.com/98d02cad15d64d8491cd5f43f657df78:mastodon
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