I erroneously set my personal lemmy instance to private! how do i access it now?!

No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world – 3 points – 1 years ago

now i get this error when i attempt to access it. anyone know how to set it back?

404: FetchError: request to http://lemmy:8536/api/v3/site

and the command docker compose -p lemmy-easy-deploy logs -f yeilds a bunch of nonsense but this line stood out...

Error: LemmyError { message: Some("Cannot have both private instance and federation enabled."), inner: Cannot have both private instance and federation enabled., context: "SpanTrace" }

Connect to your database and execute this sql:

UPDATE local_site SET private_instance = false

Then restart docker container

Thank you for your response, but can you explain like I'm five? Lol

In your case you can try this:

$ docker exec -ti lemmy_postgresql_1 bash

or put here your container name instead "lemmy_postgresql_1", look inside docker ps output

$ su postgres 
$ psql -d lemmy
$ UPDATE local_site SET private_instance = false;

Then restart docker container with docker restart lemmy_lemmy_1 # or your container name instead "lemmy_lemmy_1", look inside docker ps output

i'm so sorry but i still don't understand...

root@laptop:/home/rain# docker exec -ti lemmy_postgresql_1 bash
Error response from daemon: No such container: lemmy_postgresql_1

here is the guide i followed that got me to this point... and then i checked that box with out understanding what i was doing...

Replace lemmy_postgresql_1 with whatever the name of your database container is. If you don't know the name, I guess you should be able to figure it out by reading config.env?

i don't see the database mentioned in that file

The hostname for your instance

Do NOT put http:// or https://

ONLY put your domain here. Subdomains are ok.

LEMMY_HOSTNAME="atosoul.zapto.org"

If you use Cloudflare, your Cloudflare API token. Otherwise leave blank.

If present, the DNS-01 challenge will be used to obtain valid HTTPS certificates

--> If you use the Cloudflare Proxy, DO NOT FORGET to enable Cloudflare's Full (Strict) SSL mode! <--

This token must have access to edit the Zone where $LEMMY_HOSTNAME is

Using this option will increase build time, as the DNS plugin needs to be compiled. Subsequent deploys will be faster.

CF_API_TOKEN=""

Whether or not to build Lemmy from source rather than use the Docker Hub images

This will significantly increase deploy time!

BUILD_FROM_SOURCE="false"

The name of your Lemmy instance, will be displayed on the site header (only used during first-time setup)

If you use special characters, please backslash-escape them.

SETUP_SITE_NAME="AtoSoul"

###############################################################

SETTINGS FOR ADVANCED USERS ONLY

I CANNOT HELP YOU WITH ISSUES RELATED TO THESE SETTINGS

###############################################################

The external port to use for Caddy's port 80

CADDY_HTTP_PORT=80

The external port to use for Caddy's port 443

CADDY_HTTPS_PORT=443

If true/1, also deploy the postfix server and configure Lemmy to send emails

NOTE: Port 25 is USUALLY disabled on most server providers. For this reason, the email service is not well tested

Feedback on the email service is appreciated!

USE_EMAIL="false"

If true/1, prefix the Caddy host block with http:// to disable TLS entirely

CADDY_DISABLE_TLS="false"

The options below will be passed directly to lemmy.hjson

See that file for how they will be used

Remember to backslash escape any special characters!

POSTGRES_POOL_SIZE="5" TLS_ENABLED="true" SETUP_ADMIN_USER="lemmy" LEMMY_NOREPLY_DISPLAY="Lemmy NoReply" LEMMY_NOREPLY_FROM="noreply"