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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I used Lemmy Easy Deploy
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.
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.
What are the errors?
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
Comments federate to instances with subscribed users for that community. The first time a user subscribes to the community federation will start and future comments will begin to show up on the instance. Can’t see old comments… on smaller/self instances that problem will be more visible.
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.
Not specific to Lemmy but ubuntu’s weird snap version of docker has given me random issues in the past, perhaps that could be the issue. Installing docker by following the official instructions means you are guaranteed to get a fully functional install and that’s one variable you wouldn’t have to worry about at least.
Edit: Forgot to mention but I’m running it on docker myself, I just followed the official documentation and whatnot. Using a debian 11 based LXC on Proxmox.
Been trying for like 2 weeks - Lemmy Easy Deploy, a couple different guides through google, couple different youtube vids, the official docs. In and out of docker, always with a fresh VM (Debian and Ubuntu)… It always installs without errors, but never get it to load the page in a browser. Not sure what’s wrong, maybe just cursed.
Kubernetes
The docker compose stack is pretty straightforward, i just use the images dessalines/lemmy:0.17.4 and dessalines/lemmy-ui:0.17.4 instead of trying to build them
Post your docker-compose file and error message here so people can actually provide advises for your setup.
I’m using Proxmox and Docker-Compose. My instance is on an alpine LXC.
Very happy with it.
Would it be possible to teach us? Or give a quick step-by-step guide to make in run at least?
Well, if it’s your first time selfhosting and setting up your environment, I’d to things in steps. Great thing about virtualization is that you can snapshot.
Once you get proxmox up and running, choose an OS to virtualize, snapshot once made. Snapshot once configuration for users etc, snapshot once docker has been installed, snapshot after docker-compose has been configured… You get the idea.
Set up backup of the VMs/containers, set up lemmy using the official docker-compose step-by-step guide. Once you reach it on port 80, set up nginx.
