Looks good to me https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/analyze.html?d=besocial.co.za&latest
Common names besocial.co.za
Alternative names *.besocial.co.za besocial.co.za
Serial Number 04e51f2283df6fa7e393ae568f6a79805222
Valid from Mon, 21 Nov 2022 09:49:21 UTC
Valid until Sun, 19 Feb 2023 09:49:20 UTC (expires in 2 months and 28 days)

Turns out rebooting the droplet makes the logs work :shrug:

Once I had logs I could see that I needed to enable Object Level ACLs.

I’m going to reach out to the folks that made tutorials that I found and let them know to add that.

Must have: “ACLs Enabled” under Bucket / Permissions / Object Ownership

Now I need to figure out why my friends on other servers are showing up with 0 posts.

I tried adding RAILS_LOG_LEVEL=debug to the .evn.production and journalctl is still returning

No journal files were found.
— No entries —

Sorry, 500 errors are far to generic for me to help here, but one more suggestion, check the ownership of /opt/mastodon/public/ is mastodon and not root, and correct if needed.

Good point. Nothing super revealing in the nginx log. No errors. I do see the 500 in the access log.

..IP.. – – [20/Nov/2022:00:44:36 +0000] “POST /api/v2/media HTTP/2.0” 500 894 “…HOST…” “Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/107.0.0.0 Safari/537.36”

Load is at 0.01 and swap is not being used..

Prob coming from NGINX, Check /var/log/nginx, those are pretty meaningful logs, also check your resources with top (or i prefer htop).

There isn’t anything to go on from the browser console and I’m not seeing any logs. I see an empty log folder under the mastodon home and the journalctl is simply returning “No journal files were found”

Any tips on how to debug these 500 errors?

Nice walk though here setting up with an S3 bucket https://github.com/cybrespace/cybrespace-meta/blob/master/s3.md
Make sure you have given the Masto server IP address access to the bucket, that caught me once as I think default they are full locked down.
I wouldn’t be using my default admin account for general use anyway, create a new user, and elevate permissions to admin.
adding a “.” in the user part of an email address usually allows you to use the same email address on multiple accounts, so maybe first.last@ is the same as firstlast@.

I went the S3 route for storage and curious what the settings in env.production would be to just use Digital Oceans as I’ll be the only one using the instance — Having issues with permission on S3 and running in circles 🙁

I’m going to try your SMTP settings for Gmail as well to avoid the same issue with Sendmail.

I was wondering however, is there a way to rename the admin username? I named it Admin and would prefer it be my username. If not, perhaps I can create another user and give them admin access?

If so, is that done using RAILS_ENV?

Thanks for helping us all out, truly appreciated 🙌