I have a debian linux host with docker installed on it. I followed the guide here: https://join-lemmy.org/docs/en/administration/install_docker.html
Changes that I made:
- I used a sub folder called
lemmyin my containers area rather than/lemmy - I copied the nginx.conf file from https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/blob/main/docker/nginx.conf to my lemmy folder and ran a docker-compose up.
- I changed the proxy service ports to 17008 (other service runs on 80) and 17003 (instead of 443).
I changed absolutely nothing else. No hostnames, no passwords. Nothing. The docker logs show it up and running.
Docker ps shows the instance fine too:
I’ve tried accessing http://<hostname>:17008, https://<hostname>:18003. I’ve tried setting my local hosts file for hostname “lemmy” to that server IP and accessing via http://lemmy:17008 and https://lemmy:18003
Is there something obvious that I’m missing?
I did it! I got my instance up and running. I had to still create the pictrs folder and chown on it to get pictrs to work. And then after that, it was just doing Nginx Proxy Manager and some config in my hjson file. https://www.pastery.net/rpmppa+tdqrrx/#rpmppa
Though, I do still need to figure out why images aren’t loading… source
If the pictrs docker logs look fine, it could be more proxy issues. Take another look at the pictrs info docker-compose.yml, lemmy.hjson, and nginx.conf in the lemmy-ansible repo, and make sure it matches your setup.
Sweet, glad you got it.
Post your
docker-compose logsHere you go! https://www.pastery.net/wekngg/
I don’t see anything wrong there, but its most likely a proxy issue.
Also you should be using the nginx.conf and docker-compose from here:
https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ansible/blob/main/templates/nginx.conf
Ya, I’m sure it is. Thanks for the tip to use the lemmy-ansible repo for docker instead of the lemmy docker installation. I’ll tinker and report back on success or not.
did you try port 443?
Yes, even though it should not be accessible.
If you docker inspect lemmy_proxy_1 to find its IP, and connect to 80/443 there from the host, does it work?
Do you have iptables rules on the host that might be blocking access to the exposed port perhaps?
Also the default nginx forward proxy configuration runs nginx on port 1236, not 80, inside the container, and doesn’t have any kind of TLS configuration.
I think most people likely have another layer of proxy (e.g. on the host) in front of it, instead of directly exposing the forward proxy from Docker Compose - that’s what I do - and that’s where I do TLS with a LetsEncrypt certificate.
Ya, I have my own reverse proxy in front of all of that. I just wanted to try and get a very basic setup working first. Thanks for the great info, I’ll do some research! No IPTables.
