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.
Okay, so it looks like nginx is a reverse proxy. That is the step I was on. It doesn’t work. Last thing I did was to modify the docker-compose.yml file and change the port from 80 to 1236. I was told to do that by someone who has been trying to troubleshoot with me for 2 weeks now. It doesn’t say to do that anywhere, but they told me to so I did. Then they said to “add this to my upstream” but I haven’t a fucking clue what that means so I don’t know what to do next. There is a config file in etc/nginx/sites-enabled/nginx.conf that the guide directed me to edit. This is the guide that I was directed to use to set up nginx. I was on the step where it requests the nginx status and mine just says “inactive”. I promise, I am following these guides PRECISELY. I don’t know what I am doing wrong, but all the solutions that I have received are things that the guide DOES NOT say to do. So I don’t know where I am. I am happy to start fresh. You just let me know.
It doesn’t tell you to actually run nginx, it assumes it will automatically run when installed. I don’t know why, that sounds like dumb behaviour even if it were correct. You are right about the guides being trash.
I recommend getting used to package manager (apt, dpkg) and system daemon/init system (systemd - accessed via systemctl) and then ignoring that guide. Installing and running nginx isn’t complex enough to warrant a guide; installing packages and running services, in general, are just. Configuring nginx, however… If you know the concepts, it’s pretty easy. The concepts are hard.
That may be so, but the link that they give references a digital ocean guide that DOES (it’s literally step 2). So, am I just ignoring that part? How do I figure out which parts of a guide should be followed and which ones shouldn’t?
I haven’t gotten it to work yet so I disagree.
In my opinion its best not to touch the nginx that’s set up by Lemmy and it’s better to have another reverse-proxy in front of it.
I’ll try to come up with an solution later in the day, gotta do my daily at work.
No problem at all. Thanks for getting back to me. I really do appreciate it!!! I have a busy day today too but I’ll try to be vigilant about responding.