Recovery

This page is a collection of remedies for issues that can occur with ViewTube.

Lost access to admin account

1. Create a new account you would like to use as an admin
2. Set the environment variable VIEWTUBE_ADMIN_USER to your the username of your new account
3. Restart ViewTube

If have registration disabled and cannot create an account, continue reading.

Disabled registration and lost access to admin account

1. Start a shell session inside the mongodb container

docker exec -it <YOUR-MONGODB-CONTAINER-NAME-HERE> bash

2. Start the mongo shell

mongosh

3. Select the viewtube database

use viewtube

4. Execute the following command to allow registration

db['server-settings'].updateOne({version:1},{$set: {registrationEnabled:true}})

Now you can create a new admin user according to the topic above.