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84e1c7a7c4This tries to revamp/restructure the installation guide. It's renamed to "Getting Started" as it now contains a few more things than just the installation, especially the deployment considerations which we didn't use to spell out as much ahead of time. Installation is now a section with the guides on their own. I've removed a bit of redundancy like the user creation. I also removed the rogue reverse proxy section in the Docker guide and lifted that into the reverse proxy section.
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# Creating users
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Regardless of the installation method, you'll need to create some users. GoToSocial currently doesn't have a way for users to be created through the web UI, or for people to sign-up through the web UI.
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Using the CLI, you can create a user:
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```sh
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$ gotosocial --config-path /path/to/config.yaml \
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admin account create \
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--username some_username \
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--email some_email@whatever.org \
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--password 'SOME_PASSWORD'
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```
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In the above command, replace `some_username` with your desired username, `some_email@whatever.org` with the email address you want to associate with your account, and `SOME_PASSWORD` with a secure password.
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If you want your user to have admin rights, you can promote them using a similar command:
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```sh
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$ gotosocial --config-path /path/to/config.yaml \
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admin account promote --username some_username
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```
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Replace `some_username` with the username of the account you just created.
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!!! info
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When running these commands, you'll get a bit of output like the following:
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```text
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time=XXXX level=info msg=connected to SQLITE database
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time=XXXX level=info msg=there are no new migrations to run func=doMigration
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time=XXXX level=info msg=closing db connection
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```
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This is normal and indicates that the commands ran as expected.
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## Containers
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When running GoToSocial from a container, you'll need to execute the above command in the conatiner instead. How to do this varies based on your container runtime, but for Docker it should look like:
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```sh
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$ docker exec -it CONTAINER_NAME_OR_ID \
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/gotosocial/gotosocial \
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admin account create \
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--username some_username \
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--email someone@example.org \
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--password 'some_very_good_password'
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```
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If you followed our Docker guide, the container name will be `gotosocial`. Both the name and the ID can be retrieved through `docker ps`.
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