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'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.
I got mine running via Docker by copying the docker-compose, nginx, and lemmy.hjson files from the lemmy-ansible repo. Everything is working so far except votes and comments from other instances. They won't sync for some reason.
Thanks! My set up is a bit different however. I don't use docker nginx and I just use the native one but I do have proxy_set_header Upgrade $http_upgrade; and proxy_set_header Connection $connection_upgrade; on my nginx.conf.
I could post comments locally on my own instance. That works but I can't see comments or upvotes from other instances but I can see their posts (not all of it though). Likewise, I can see my own instance's posts from another instance but not the comments or upvotes.
My instance is also behind Cloudflare but turning off the proxy doesn't change the behaviour.
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.
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.
I was able to get it running from source on Gentoo (without docker). Building from source is an option but you need to manage the dependencies and daemons yourself. This is my first comment! Good luck with your setup
another docker user here. Why does our thumbnails look the same :) I know there is something wrong with my setup. I made a post here https://leddit.minnal.icu/post/1045 but still no idea.
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
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.
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.
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 tried the official setup guide but I never actually got it to work. So many weird problems with ports and intra-Docker networking.
The only version of Lemmy I was able to get working, very easily, was through YunoHost.
Unfortunately, the latest Lemmy version YunoHost supports is 0.16.7. I really hope someone who truly understands setting up these services can help maintain the Lemmy_ynh app, as YunoHost is a great tool for people to self-host with.
I tried with the official docker way, and failed too many times :) . Then I decided to lurk around some public instances and let the platform mature for a little bit more. The problem is usually the docker build fails.
Same, I tried on a fresh Ubuntu, a fresh Debian, with Docker, from scratch, using the package manager's Rust, using the official Rust script, etc. (I really wanted to run an instance...)
It fails somewhere everytime.
The documentation is lacking, and/or I'm more ignorant about this than I thought.
I used Ansible to do it, which really just automated a docker install. Oddly, I actually had issues doing docker myself, so maybe I was missing something that it needed.
I spawned up a LXC in my Proxmox for it as soon as the Reddit fiasco began. Originally tried the Docker way, failed... My Docker is installed the official way by the way. Tried the "install from scratch" way, also failed... Finally gave the source a casual read and decided to compile it from source.
The pict-rs bit is a hassle. It has taken me some time to get all the dependencies right and compile Imagemagick version 7 for Ubuntu 22.04 from source. But it worked eventually.
I then installed the rust toolchain and checked out the latest stable release tag at the time aka 0.17.3 and compiled lemmy. Nothing went astray and I followed the remaining steps in the "install from scratch" doc to complete the setup.
P.S. Oh right you need to make the lemmy PostgreSQL user SUPERUSER otherwise the database migration script would not work. A commit was already made to make it unnecessary. It will make its way to 0.18.0 release I guess.
I initially encountered some issues in federation. Subscriptions stuck at pending for remote instances, regardless of their size and traffic. I tried many ways and still it did not work. I have thought of axing the container and restarting from the beginning.
While I was weighing my options, I found an advice in an issue at lemmy GitHub repo that suggested the problem was leftover from previous hostname changes and dumping the existing database and recreating from sketch would help. I have indeed altered the hostname once or twice during setup. So I followed the advice and federation is working now.
So far not a butter smooth experience but not the worst either. It does take some troubleshooting capacity and patience. But heck selfhosting has been like that since time immemorial.