How is everyone installing Lemmy?

bobafett@lemmy.world to Selfhosted@lemmy.world – 12 points –

I have tried installing it with docker on Ubuntu 20.04 and 22.04 LTS but cannot seem to get it working. The build keeps erroring out with docker errors.

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If your using docker I recommend getting a docker-compose file that does 98% of the config work for you. Pretty sure there's one in the install docs.

I've been having trouble understanding how the docker-compose thing works, and the whole... impermanence of docker containers. Got any tutorials you'd recommend? Note I'm on Windows.

Are you planning to host it on a Windows machine?

If you don't have experience with docker, don't jump straight to docker compose. Start simpler.

If you want to have data persist after a container is killed, have a look at the -v option of "docker run". It allows you to mount a volume.

Yes, I'd be hosting it through Docker Desktop on my Windows server.

Most programs I'd want to host, including Lemmy, pretty much only seem to work through docker-compose.

I had some luck with the prebuilt images from dessalines' dockerhub and using the compose file in the repo with logging commented out.

It was stable for about a week before I tried to update and broke my database and federation completely. I might try again when 0.18 stable drops.

Will self-hosting Lenny have the limitation that you’ll be missing a lot of comments when subscribing to magazines from other instances? I am considering it tough

You are using two technologies that have a bad of working like shit, together; Ubuntu/snap and docker. You can try podman if you want, or a different distro. Or, at least, install the official docker way.

Post your docker-compose file and error message here so people can actually provide advises for your setup.

I've been trying for more than a week. LemmyEasyDeploy worked. But now i'm stuck with ssl certificate.

Lemmy Easy Deploy handles the SSL certificates for you. You don't need to buy them

I get ssl errors when i try to access the site.

Maybe start from scratch? Maybe you could ask the developer. I bought SSL tickets but ended up not needing them

I've started from scratch several times. Never get further than the build command. :) But i will try again later today.

I got mine running via Docker by copying the docker-compose, nginx, and lemmy.hjson files from the lemmy-ansible repo. Everything is working so far except votes and comments from other instances. They won't sync for some reason.

Here is mine https://gist.github.com/jeena/6179470a8d616455f30635a5c71f5f64 which had a similar problem with the comments, although I couldn't post comments on my own instance either.

For me the thing was that I had to add:

map $http_upgrade $connection_upgrade {
    default upgrade;
    ''      close;
}

and

        proxy_set_header Upgrade $http_upgrade;
        proxy_set_header Connection $connection_upgrade;

And also change the nginx in the docker to port 8080 so my normal nginx could keep running on 80 and handle all the ssl certificate stuff.

My setup is:

Browser -> native Nginx -> docker Nginx -> lemmy