Maybe I am a dumber dummie because I can't get it to work. Went through everything, started the steemd again it says no witnesses configured no miners configured. The config.ini has my name and my owner key...

Did ./steemd --rpc-endpoint
it says

3375144ms th_a main.cpp:119 main ] Error parsing logging config from config file /home/ubuntwo/steem/programs/steemd/witness_node_data_dir/config.ini, using default config

and at the end

901659ms th_a witness.cpp:189 plugin_startup ] Starting mining...
901659ms th_a witness.cpp:196 plugin_startup ] witness plugin: plugin_startup() end
901660ms th_a main.cpp:182 main ] Started witness node on a chain with 0 blocks.

Then it just.. does nothing that I can see.