I believe that self-hosting will take some of the load off of the wefwef server. That will be a win-win for everyone. At the same time, I understand that wefwef is still so very new that it might not be mature enough to let loose on other people’s servers.
I am looking for instructions on how to self-host wefwef, ideally as a docker container, ideally using a ready-to-use docker-compose.yml file.
pull image docker pull ghcr.io/aeharding/wefwef:latest
start container: docker run --rm -it -p 5314:5314 wefwef
Source : https://github.com/aeharding/wefwef#prebuilt
When I self host in my private network, wefwef should work from abroad as it‘s loaded on my phone - but does it pull new posts then?
As long as your server is running and connected to the internet it should update new
To clarify a couple of things, and hopefully help anyone else doing this on macOS:
Start by installing Docker desktop
Open Terminal and type in:
docker pull ghcr.io/aeharding/wefwef:latestThen, you want to use a Docker run command like this to get things started. In this example, I put my local IP in as “192.168.1.2” but you’ll need to adjust that value to whatever your machine’s IP is.
docker run --rm -d -p 192.168.1.2:5314:5314 -e "CUSTOM_LEMMY_SERVERS=lemmy.world,sh.itjust.works,lemmy.ml" ghcr.io/aeharding/wefwef:latestAt that point, I went to my iPhone, opened Safari and went to 192.168.1.2:5314 and boom, there’s wefwef. Install this as PWA and name it (local) or something and you’re good to go.
Instead of doing 5314:5314 do 127.0.0.1:5314:5314. The setting provided in your post bypasses your firewall settings (assuming you’re on Ubuntu Server, that’s ufw) and set up a nginx reverse proxy with certbot.