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.
I used Lemmy Easy Deploy
What are the errors?
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.
Post your docker-compose file and error message here so people can actually provide advises for your setup.
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.
On my soapbox (mastodon) instance I have made this modification so that I can open posts on its original instance. This might be good to have in Lemmy too then.
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.
If you post your configs and errors we might be able to help you. I set up a vm with docker compose and proxy it through traefik instead of nginx
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.
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.