It was easy enough to do it with self hosted mastodon, cant seem to login to any of the Lemmy apps with my selfhosted website? Lemmy.rip

UPDATE: I had to renew through a setting in yunohost, not automatic, porkbun was showing it as valid and I I’m used to them grabbing it automatically or having me paste it in during setup.

  • Matt The Horwood@lemmy.horwood.cloudEnglish
    18·
    2 days ago

    Yes you can use lemmy apps to access a self hosted instance, but you will need a real certificate for that to work.

    A quick check of Lemmy.rip show it has a self signed certificate, thats not going to allow you to access it easily and my even stop federation from working.

    You should be able to get a lets encrypt certificate very easily.

    • 𝘋𝘪𝘳𝘬English
      1·
      7 hours ago

      It’s 2025. Not having “real certificates” is something admins intentionally do. Since there is Let’s Encrypt available, all other solutions for non-paid certificates are obsolete.

      • Matt The Horwood@lemmy.horwood.cloudEnglish
        1·
        5 hours ago

        With let’s encrypt and DNS APIs, theres no excuse not to have a real certificate!

        More so if you want to have that service interacte with other systems not your own

        • 𝘋𝘪𝘳𝘬English
          1·
          4 hours ago

          Exactly. With directly using certbot handling all and everything fully automatically I ran my old setup with a free dyndns subdomain for quite some time without any issues.

          Since Let’s encrypt nowadays is basically implemented in every reverse proxy: certificates are an absolute no-brainer.

          If someone manages to buy and configure a domain to serve selfhosted content, this person will also be able to either set up certbot or use the built-in functionality of their reverse proxy.

    • 3dmvr@lemm.eeOPEnglish
      2·
      2 days ago

      forsure I thought it had one through porkbun but yunohost might be messing with that

      • hendrik@palaver.p3x.deEnglish
        5·
        2 days ago

        yunohost has a dedicated page in the admin ui for you to configure your domains and certificates. default is a self-signed one unless you generate a proper one

  • Shimitar@downonthestreet.euEnglish
    5·
    2 days ago

    I see the error… You need a valid and non self-signed cert. See how letsencrypt work, its easy and the industry standard today on certs. Its also free and open source.

    • 3dmvr@lemm.eeOPEnglish
      2·
      2 days ago

      Yeah I had to click renew manually in yunohost, just assumed if porkbun showed it as valid it would work, my panels for wordpress mightve been doing it automatically lol

  • Shimitar@downonthestreet.euEnglish
    2·
    2 days ago

    Mine worke just fine, what errors do you get? Does it work from web access?

    Is your instance accessible from outside your self host? Does it federate?

  • Sjmarf@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    1·
    2 days ago

    Mobile apps should allow you to log into any instance. My Lemmy client won’t connect to lemmy.rip either, and fails with the following error:

    The certificate for this server is invalid. You might be connecting to a server that is pretending to be “lemmy.rip”, which could put your confidential information at risk.

    This is also what I see when I try to connect to lemmy.rip in the browser:

    I am able to bypass this warning and see the site in the browser.