I have tried the docker, ansible, and scratch methods. I have been troubleshooting for a month now. I have gotten nowhere. I need someone to help walk me through how to deploy a lemmy server because the guides are absolute trash.

Please help. I’m wasting money running this VPS and for literally nothing.

Edit: So, I’ve tried the ansible method, but I can’t access my server this way. It just keeps saying “UNREACHABLE”. I have generated a dozen keys, none of them work. I have NO PROBLEMS with ssh in Putty. I can use Putty all day. Putty works fine using my ssh key. Ansible does not. No amount of new keys has made any difference. I have countless keys in my stupid droplet because of this hacky garbage.

  • BlackEcoEnglish
    1•1 year ago

    Is the server you’re trying to deploy in a local network? Have you setup your ISP router to route ports 80 and 443 to your server? Or are you using Cloudflare Tunnel?

    As for reverse proxy, it’s usually Caddy or nginx-proxy to get a SSL certificate (for HTTPS) for your service.

    • @ZMonsterOPEnglish
      1•1 year ago

      I am using digital ocean.

      Have you setup your ISP router to route ports 80 and 443 to your server?

      I don’t know what that is. What is an ISP router? Is that a config file on my server? You really need to spell it out. I am following the guides. That is what I know. If you have a better guide that uses this verbiage then please send it. I am happy to learn.

      And during the docker method, I was trying to set up nginx and the status is inactive. It will not start.

      Here is the status message:

       Starting A high performance web server and a reverse proxy server...
 nginx[29280]: nginx: [emerg] cannot load certificate "/etc/letsencrypt/live/my_domain_name/fullchain.pem": BIO_new_file() failed (SSL: error:80000002:system>
 nginx[29280]: nginx: configuration file /etc/nginx/nginx.conf test failed
 systemd[1]: nginx.service: Control process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE
 systemd[1]: nginx.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
 systemd[1]: Failed to start A high performance web server and a reverse proxy server.
      • BlackEcoEnglish
        1•1 year ago

        ISP = Internet Service Provider, so your Telco provider. By ISP router I was meaning the box you use at home to connect to the Internet as I presumed you were self-hosting at home. But since you are on Digital Ocean this is irrelevant.

        I’m not familiar with Digital Ocean, do you have access to a standard Linux box with SSH or are you using some sort of Web UI like cPanel to manage it?

        • @ZMonsterOPEnglish
          1•1 year ago

          Oh, so my router, 🤣 lol, my bad.

          And yes, I use Putty to access the server currently. root@IP with an RSA key. It works perfectly on Putty. Ansible just will not connect. No idea what to do there. It just says “UNREACHABLE”. I have added and removed a dozen or so keys generated on the WSL Ubuntu Ansible local machine and none of them work.

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

        Look in /etc/nginx/nginx.conf, it probably includes ./sites-available/*.conf, look in there for ssl_certificate(_key) that mentions that fullchain.pem, remove/comment(#) and restart nginx. It may still bitch about not having a cert for ssl, in which case take that out of the listen directives too.