Hey all I have no idea what I’m doing here trying to set up a Lemmy instance. I’ve made simple servers before but nothing like the setup needed for this especially surrounding email verification.

I’m like 10 tutorials deep and on day 3 of trying to figure out what is going on with Postfix. There are so many words and acronyms being thrown around I don’t even know what I’m looking at anymore let alone knowing what the right questions to ask would be.

Very likely I’m going to nuke my droplet this weekend to make sure I have a fresh start with no half-baked solutions competing with each other. Would someone be willing to set up a time with me this weekend on Discord or something and baby step me through how to get this thing up and running?

  • Valmond
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    1 year ago

    Dude I’m in the same boat, tried to install Lemmy quick and dirty on my Linux server … finally I’m bringing a non used server into life with a clean install (Mint 21 + PostgreSQL + Docker) Still have problems :-/ :-D

    Hopefully it’s just configuration stuff, but like you have 3 config files with redundant information and no idea if host should be localhost(using nginx) localhost:80 or my.website.com or http://my.website.com or localhost:port_for_nginx, and (rant on, sorry) that’s something that is in several places, or so it seems …

    With some try and error it seems things start to run, but I still have no database created (I made one named lemmy, with a user named lemmy, tried without DB lemmy etc) is lemmy supposed to create the DB or just the tables or …

    What about a sub for just installing and get instances up and running?

    Even just copies of the conf files (with passwords removed) could help I think (I didn’t know if the {{ … }} you shouldn’t keep the {{ }} for example) I bet that could be quite useful for a lot of newbie lemmy server operators.

    My server is on a shaky and slow but stable line at the moment (Server => slow WiFi => Internet 2.5Gb) but cables are on the way. A Moebius (Gir, the comics guy) themed instance is in the works!

    Well hopefully…

    Cheers and long live Lemmy and the Fediverse!

    Valmond