Hello, I’ve been trying to host my own lemmy instance for a little while now but have yet to be successful.
I recently had my lemmy instance running but i could not find other communities, so i decided to remove everything and try again. Now however when i try to create an account or log in i get the error 404 for the file /api/v3/user/login
and nothing happens.
I’ve tried removing everything again and starting again but it is still not working
in the lemmy docker container i get the following error
2023-07-06T12:27:55.845049Z WARN lemmy_server::root_span_builder: couldnt_find_that_username_or_email: Record not found
1: lemmy_server::root_span_builder::HTTP request
0: lemmy_api::local_user::login::perform
at crates/api/src/local_user/login.rs:16
with http.method=POST http.scheme="http" http.host=lemmy.emphisia.nl http.target=/api/v3/user/login otel.kind="server" request_id=7896c156-ba9f-42cd-8f1a-c0233c3018a7
LemmyError { message: Some("couldnt_find_that_username_or_email"), inner: Record not found, context: SpanTrace [{ target: "lemmy_api::local_user::login", name: "perform", fields: "self=Login { username_or_email: Sensitive, password: Sensitive, totp_2fa_token: None }", file: "crates/api/src/local_user/login.rs", line: 16 }, { target: "lemmy_server::root_span_builder", name: "HTTP request", fields: "http.method=POST http.scheme=\"http\" http.host=lemmy.emphisia.nl http.target=/api/v3/user/login otel.kind=\"server\" request_id=7896c156-ba9f-42cd-8f1a-c0233c3018a7", file: "src/root_span_builder.rs", line: 16 }] }
with self=Login { username_or_email: Sensitive, password: Sensitive, totp_2fa_token: None }
at src/root_span_builder.rs:16
edit: i just managed to log in, however the federation does not seem to be working. None show up in the communities tab and if i look for any communities i get no results and this in the log
2023-07-06T14:09:32.699162Z WARN lemmy_server::root_span_builder: couldnt_find_object: Failed to resolve actor via webfinger
0: lemmy_apub::fetcher::search::search_query_to_object_id
at crates/apub/src/fetcher/search.rs:19
1: lemmy_apub::api::resolve_object::perform
with self=ResolveObject { q: "!asklemmy", auth: Sensitive }
at crates/apub/src/api/resolve_object.rs:21
2: lemmy_server::root_span_builder::HTTP request
with http.method=GET http.scheme="http" http.host=lemmy.emphisia.nl http.target=/api/v3/resolve_object otel.kind="server" request_id=34386e88-9099-4d83-a6a2-360ee7924064
at src/root_span_builder.rs:16
LemmyError { message: Some("couldnt_find_object"), inner: Failed to resolve actor via webfinger, context: SpanTrace [{ target: "lemmy_apub::fetcher::search", name: "search_query_to_object_id", file: "crates/apub/src/fetcher/search.rs", line: 19 }, { target: "lemmy_apub::api::resolve_object", name: "perform", fields: "self=ResolveObject { q: \"!asklemmy\", auth: Sensitive }", file: "crates/apub/src/api/resolve_object.rs", line: 21 }, { target: "lemmy_server::root_span_builder", name: "HTTP request", fields: "http.method=GET http.scheme=\"http\" http.host=lemmy.emphisia.nl http.target=/api/v3/resolve_object otel.kind=\"server\" request_id=34386e88-9099-4d83-a6a2-360ee7924064", file: "src/root_span_builder.rs", line: 16 }] }
it doesn’t matter what i search, this always happens
Hey, could you provide more details about setup? Are you using ansible or docker? Using any other reverse proxy?
im using an nginx reverse proxy with the template provided by lemmy.(this one) Im using the docker install the website is lemmy.emphisia.nl
I’m surprised the docker guide still isn’t fixed, the Ansible template got updated to use 2 nginx configs. Take a look at the second one: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ansible/main/templates/nginx_internal.conf
It splits traffic between the UI and the backend.
I am actually already running that config in the internal nginx, but i’ve never changed anything about it. what do i need to specify when they say “# this needs to map to the lemmy (server) docker service hostname” do they want the name of the docker container, and do they want the internal or external port?
I don’t use NGINX as my proxy server, but it’s a bit strange that you would need two configs for this while mine runs perfectly with one config and two open ports (:8536 for Lemmy-BE and :1234 for Lemmy-UI). And why are you using different versions of Lemmy-BE (18.1-rc9) and Lemmy-UI (18.1-rc4)?
If you are using the default
docker-compose.yml
on the Lemmy repo, that part of the NGINX config uses https:// + the name of the Docker containers. And you always give NGINX the external port (the number on the right side of the colon defined inports:
, like 1234 in1234:5678
). The port on the left is only known to the container the port is defined for.If it’s still broken after you correct the NGINX config, what are your
docker-compose.yml
andconfig.hjson
like? There’s several versions of them floating around and you might have combined incompatible versions with each other.I am using two nginx servers because one nginx server is used by lemmy to give me one port to access. And the other one i use to set up my reverse proxy so that i can host more than one service on my server.
I dont know why i have different versions of the ui and backend. I am just using the latest version avalible on the docker website.
My docker compose file looks like this and the lemmy config file looks like this i got this config from here because i was looking for a way to correctly set-up my email because de documentation about the config file is really bad. But when using the default config file (found here).
Yeah, the config file on the documentation sucks. I had to poke through several discussions on /c/selfhosting to find a config that wasn’t the extremely minimal one linked in the documentation. Your
config.hjson
is fine from what I can tell, although I’m not sure why you censored thehostname
there as it’s supposed to belemmy.emphisia.nl
and not anything confidential.Honestly, I don’t have enough understanding of NGINX to debug its config, so I’ll just share my docker-compose.yml for leddit.danmark.party which worked correctly and federated out of the box, with a few adjustments to match your deployment. Note that you’ll have to tear down your existing deployment if you want to use this docker-compose.yml because they use the same ports.
I should probably self-host my own pastebin
version: "3.9" x-logging: &default-logging options: max-size: '10m' driver: json-file services: caddy: image: caddy:2 volumes: - ./volumes/caddy:/data - ./volumes/caddy:/config # See Caddy's documentation for customizing this line # https://caddyserver.com/docs/quick-starts/reverse-proxy command: - /bin/sh - -c - | cat <<EOF > /etc/caddy/Caddyfile && caddy run --config /etc/caddy/Caddyfile { debug } (common) { encode gzip header { -Server Strict-Transport-Security "max-age=31536000; include-subdomains;" X-XSS-Protection "1; mode=block" X-Frame-Options "DENY" X-Content-Type-Options nosniff Referrer-Policy no-referrer-when-downgrade X-Robots-Tag "none" } } # Lemmy instance lemmy.emphisia.nl { log import common reverse_proxy http://lemmy-ui:1234 # lemmy-ui @lemmy { path /api/* path /pictrs/* path /feeds/* path /nodeinfo/* path /.well-known/* } @lemmy-hdr { header Accept application/* } handle @lemmy { reverse_proxy http://lemmy:8085 # lemmy } handle @lemmy-hdr { reverse_proxy http://lemmy:8085 } @lemmy-post { method POST } handle @lemmy-post { reverse_proxy http://lemmy:8085 } } EOF lemmy: image: dessalines/lemmy:0.18.1-rc.9 ports: - 8085:8536 volumes: - ./lemmy.hjson:/config/config.hjson depends_on: - postgres - pictrs restart: always logging: *default-logging lemmy-ui: image: dessalines/lemmy-ui:0.18.1-rc.9 ports: - 1234:1234 environment: - LEMMY_UI_LEMMY_INTERNAL_HOST=lemmy:8085 - LEMMY_UI_LEMMY_EXTERNAL_HOST=localhost:1236 depends_on: - lemmy volumes: - ./volumes/lemmy-ui/extra_themes:/app/extra_themes restart: always logging: *default-logging postgres: image: postgres:15-alpine ports: - 5432:5432 environment: - POSTGRES_USER=MyPostgresUser - POSTGRES_DB=MyPostgresDb - POSTGRES_PASSWORD=MyPostgresPassword volumes: - ./volumes/postgres:/var/lib/postgresql/data restart: always logging: *default-logging pictrs: image: asonix/pictrs:0.4.0-rc.7 user: 991:991 hostname: pictrs environment: - PICTRS__MEDIA__VIDEO_CODEC=vp9 - PICTRS__MEDIA__GIF__MAX_WIDTH=256 - PICTRS__MEDIA__GIF__MAX_HEIGHT=256 - PICTRS__MEDIA__GIF__MAX_AREA=65536 - PICTRS__MEDIA__GIF__MAX_FRAME_COUNT=400 volumes: - ./volumes/pictrs:/mnt restart: always logging: *default-logging postfix: image: mwader/postfix-relay environment: - POSTFIX_myhostname=lemmy.emphisia.nl restart: "always" logging: *default-logging
thank you very much for your config file, however on pasting it and running it, i get the error
ERROR: The Compose file './docker-compose.yml' is invalid because: Unsupported config option for services.caddy: 'lemmy'
Ugh, that one is a problem with indentation because pasting the config into a Lemmy comment destroys the formatting. I uploaded it on Github to preserve the correct indentation.
Yes, the hostname of a docker container is the name you set in the docker-compose file. IIRC the port should be the internal port.
is this one for the internal Lemmy nginx or the reverse proxy?edit: the name makes that quite clear