I recently set up my own Lemmy instance via elest.io, but am having an issue I'm hoping someone here will be able to shed some light on. I am going to reach out to elest.io directly as well, but I'm not sure if it's more of a Lemmy issue or a hosting issue.
I set up the instance, and configured the settings in elest.io so that I can access it from my domain. The instances seems to load fine when I access it from my domain, but it won't let me log in. When I type my username and password in, and hit the login button, nothing happens. I can log in fine using the original generated url from elest.io. My gut is saying it isn't an issue of not configuring the domain names/PTR records correctly since everything seems to load just fine; it just won't let me log in.
Also, I just noticed that it's using the generated URL after my username for my posts (instead of my custom domain). Anyone know how to change that?
I'm absolutely not familiar with elest.io but from what you're saying I would check that you have a certificate for that domain / https. I don't think it's PTR records at all.