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.

  • giddyEnglish
    2•1 year ago

    Not the OP but I would appreciate it. I got stuck with building the lemmy image. Not sure why they don’t just use a published image

    EDIT - found the problem - the docker compose file has the build options enabled for the lemmy image and the published image commented out

    EDIT 2 - latest issue - 404: FetchError: request to http://lemmy:8536/api/v3/site? failed, reason: getaddrinfo EAI_AGAIN lemmy

    • @TerryMathewsOPEnglish
      3•1 year ago

      The furthest I got last night, that was where I got stuck as well.

    • @[email protected]English
      2•1 year ago

      I had an AI write 95% of my kurbenetes config. I had this at one point, it is likely you are not proxying (usually nginx) the Lemmy backend to /api and there are are other endpoints that need mapped to it too.