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Help standing up a self-hosted Lemmy instance (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by TerryMathews@lemmy.world to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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I'm trying to stand up a Lemmy instance, and for some reason I'm just not getting it. I've got a fair bit of experience in Linux and Docker. NPM is new to me, but doesn't seem difficult.

I've looked over several walkthroughs but it seems like they all don't quite work right. Does someone have a clear step-by-step that works, or could take the time to remote in and help me get this up?

I'm running on VMWare ESXi, and I've tried both Debian and Ubuntu to get the server up. Closest I got, the Docker containers would start but seem to be throwing errors internally and don't connect to one another.

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[–] ijustlookatpictures@feddit.uk 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm just going through it now. I'll keep you posted

[–] ijustlookatpictures@feddit.uk 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm currently hitting an issue of lets encrypt failing to authenticate using the .well-known. The domain in the hosts file is lemmy.domain.com though I have a feeling this may have to be the FQDN. the base domain is currently being used by matrix to serve antoher .well-known so it looks like I'll have to add another page there somewhere.

[–] fuser@quex.cc 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

yes, the domain in the hosts file needs to be the fqdn. Let's encrypt will look for the auth file at the root of that. if you are already using this fqdn/webroot you'll need another cname.

[–] ijustlookatpictures@feddit.uk 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I don't think I'm using the root for anything, just domain.com/.well-known/matrix/server. Would I be able to serve the challenge at domain.com/.well-known/acme-challenge/stringofcharacters?

[–] fuser@quex.cc 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think so. letsencrypt will only be looking for the file that certbot creates, so as long as it can resolve the fqdn to your host and port 80 (http://yourdoma.in) is navigable, then you should be good.

[–] ijustlookatpictures@feddit.uk 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

certbot certonly --manual is what I need though I think cloudflare or something else is making it only resolve to https. I'm going to shelf this for now and come back to it later. Thanks for your help