By vedranserbu
I need to change my SMTP configuration, and all tutorials point to said .env.production file somewhere in Mastodon folder, but I simply can not find it.
All the best, Vedran
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I was reffering to this article - https://docs.joinmastodon.org/admin/config/ - where that .env.production “dotenv” file is mentioned
Hi there,
Mastodon is installed under /home/mastodon/live. To browse or change the
files, login to the mastodon system user with:
sudo su - mastodon
Once you’ve switched to the mastodon user, you can access the live directory with:
cd /home/mastodon/live
And once in there, you will see the .env.production file.
Hope that this helps. Regards, Bobby
To edit the production config file perform the following steps.
# Login as the mastodon user
sudo su - mastodon
# Navigate to live folder
cd live
# Edit the production env config file
nano .env.production
The reason why you can’t “find” the file is because dot-files (files starting with a .) are by default hidden.
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