<p>You are trying to configure the database as "root", which is definitely not recommended.</p>
<p>The instructions say "We need to create a PostgreSQL role (i.e. user account) for your current user" so please try again, but with a normal user account, and use that username when creating the postgresql superuser. So for example, if you are logged in as a user called "bob", e.g.</p>
<pre><code>bob@debian:~/openstreetmap-website$
</code></pre>
<p>Then you would run</p>
<pre><code>sudo -u postgres -i
createuser -s bob
exit
</code></pre>
<p>and you would change the <code>config/database.yml</code> to have <code>username: bob</code>. Of course, you can use any user account to do this, "bob" is just an example.</p>

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