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Help with federation on my new instance (apollo.town)

submitted 1 year ago by tekeous to c/lemmy_support@lemmy.ml

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G'day, I just got Lemmy going on my site https://apollo.town and it doesn't appear to be federating. I ran through the Lemmy troubleshooting docs and I can return valid JSON from the site, but I can't look up anything on lemmy.ml from my site - although I can look up my site from lemmy.ml.

Caddy is my reverse proxy with the world's simplest config:

root@apollotown:~/lemmy# cat Caddyfile 
# apollo.town Lemmy instance
apollo.town {
	reverse_proxy :4040
}

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[–] tekeous 1 points 1 year ago (19 children)

When I go look in the admin settings, both Allowed and Disallowed boxes are blank, but it's possible I put my host in somewhere I wasn't supposed to in the configs. Let me double check that, where in the configs files would I be looking?

[–] lodion@aussie.zone 1 points 1 year ago (18 children)

Sorry I have no idea. I've just never seen an instance "linked" to itself. Something is definitely wrong. Might be easier to blow away the database and start again.

[–] tekeous 1 points 1 year ago (14 children)

Blew away the database and it's still there. Removed all references to apollo.town in the docker-compose, lemmy.hjson, and nginx, other than in the lemmy.json where it SPECIFICALLY says to put your domain name. I'll change that anyway to try it

[–] tekeous 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ah HA! Whatever I add to lemmy.hjson is added as a federated instance.

  # the domain name of your instance (eg "lemmy.ml")
  hostname: "lemmy.ml"

And now lemmy.ml is listed as my only linked instance.

[–] lodion@aussie.zone 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

yeah that should be your own hostname... "apollo.town".

[–] tekeous 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

well that's what I'm saying - it was set to "apollo.town" and I federated with myself. I set it back to lemmy.ml and blew the database, and now I'm federated only with lemmy.ml. Whatever I put there is federated.

[–] tekeous 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I'm not sure that's not by design, because lemmy.ml lists itself on Instances here.

[–] lodion@aussie.zone 1 points 1 year ago

Ok, weird. I guess set it back to your own hostname and create a local community to play with and find from other instances.

[–] lodion@aussie.zone 1 points 1 year ago

Sorry, not sure what is going on. I searched and added !announcements@apollo.town on my instance. But making a post never shows up on your side.

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