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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 4 points 1 year ago (12 children)

I'm giving it a go at the moment. Have you looked at the ansible playbook available at https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ansible ?

[–] TerryMathews@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (11 children)

I did. I could never get ansible to work when I was setting up the same machine. If you know how to set the inventory file up for that, I'm all ears.

[–] root@lemmy.belclayfer.net 1 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Ansible was a breeze once I got it going.

I could never get ansible to work when I was setting up the same machine.

Could you post your inventory file?

[–] TerryMathews@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

So, I'm having what I assume is a very basic issue. Going through the ansible install steps, I've created an /etc/ansible/hosts with