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.

  • @ZMonsterOP
    1•1 year ago

    I can’t even get that far.

    I used a different PC, installed WSL, created a new rsa key stored at “/home/wsl/.ssh”. Added the public key to my DO droplet. Rebuilt the droplet to ensure that the keys transferred.

    ssh -i /home/wsl/.ssh/id-rsa root@ip

Permission denied (public key)

    every 👏 fucking 👏 time 👏

    I would love to try the ansible method, but apparently I’m the only person to not just instinctively know how to ssh from another pc. I’ve searched for a reference to this and none of them help. Any advice?

    • Max-P
      1•1 year ago

      I think that’s supposed to be an underscore in id_rsa, not id-rsa, unless you changed it from the default.

      • @ZMonsterOP
        1•1 year ago

        I figured out the problem, digital ocean was only applying the top RSA key, which is my Putty key. The keys I added to DO via WSL were not getting added to the authorized key list. So I added my key to the authorized keys file and it worked. Well, it let ansible access the server. I’m having other issues but will work on them later.