I have a debian linux host with docker installed on it. I followed the guide here: https://join-lemmy.org/docs/en/administration/install_docker.html
Changes that I made:
- I used a sub folder called
lemmyin my containers area rather than/lemmy - I copied the nginx.conf file from https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/blob/main/docker/nginx.conf to my lemmy folder and ran a docker-compose up.
- I changed the proxy service ports to 17008 (other service runs on 80) and 17003 (instead of 443).
I changed absolutely nothing else. No hostnames, no passwords. Nothing. The docker logs show it up and running.
Docker ps shows the instance fine too:
I've tried accessing http://<hostname>:17008, https://<hostname>:18003. I've tried setting my local hosts file for hostname "lemmy" to that server IP and accessing via http://lemmy:17008 and https://lemmy:18003
Is there something obvious that I'm missing?
If you docker inspect lemmy_proxy_1 to find its IP, and connect to 80/443 there from the host, does it work?
Do you have iptables rules on the host that might be blocking access to the exposed port perhaps?
Also the default nginx forward proxy configuration runs nginx on port 1236, not 80, inside the container, and doesn't have any kind of TLS configuration.
I think most people likely have another layer of proxy (e.g. on the host) in front of it, instead of directly exposing the forward proxy from Docker Compose - that's what I do - and that's where I do TLS with a LetsEncrypt certificate.
Ya, I have my own reverse proxy in front of all of that. I just wanted to try and get a very basic setup working first. Thanks for the great info, I'll do some research! No IPTables.