From daeadee5fd4aa09182d5d1ad1d3fca12d9b033fc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: sneak <sneak@sneak.berlin>
Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2019 20:08:52 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] update readme

---
 README.md | 15 +++++++++++----
 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 0bee8db..5b8b1e5 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -89,11 +89,18 @@ Google.)
 
 ```
 # docker exec -ti <container name> /bin/bash
-root@c81a376bf546:~/app# su - mastodon
+root@c81a376bf546:~/app# su -l --preserve-environment mastodon
 mastodon@c81a376bf546:~$ cd app
-mastodon@c81a376bf546:~/app$ RAILS_ENV=production envdir /state/envdir bin/tootctl accounts create <newusername> --email <your email> --confirmed --role admin
+mastodon@c81a376bf546:~/app$ RAILS_ENV=production envdir /state/envdir \
+     bin/tootctl accounts create <newusername> \
+     --email <your email> \
+     --confirmed \
+     --role admin
 ```
 
-If `WEB_DOMAIN` != `LOCAL_DOMAIN` make sure you have both set in your
+If `WEB_DOMAIN` != `LOCAL_DOMAIN`, make sure you have both set in your
 shell's environment (or in the envdir) before running tootctl to add your
-user.
+user.  If you are running within a PaaS like Caprover or Heroku and you set
+them in the GUI, they should be defined on the container itself and already
+in your shell (and stay there with `--preserve-environment`).  You can check
+by running `env` before running `bin/tootctl`.