Support / questions about Lemmy.
I wanna be back for develop another UI for Lemmy, which will look like modern Reddit, but better.
Earlier i install lemmy with this guide: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4fzCUEpFnDg
but now, devs made changes around nginx, so... i cant install Lemmy now. Docker sends me errors))
If you are interested in developing a new UI, please contact me, I need the help of people who understand the installation issue.
I learned about #teddit!
but is just front-end for Reddit.
Do you want to install a fresh instance, or do you want to upgrade an instance?
If you are installing fresh, most of that tutorial is still going to work out. But you now need to pull the config file this way:
wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/main/config/defaults.hjson lemmy.hjson
If you install the more recent docker version, you don't have to install docker-compose the same way. Follow the instructions from the website, and use 'docker compose' instead of 'docker-compose'.
The nginx configuration does not need to change.
What problems are you getting?
Hello again.
I managed to run version 0.17 only by installing 0.16.4 (with your guide) and then upgrading to 0.17.0 (according to the official guide).
I think that a new guide is not required. It just seems that initially there was a problem in the distribution of the new Lemmy itself, says Dessalines https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/2700
For future visitors of this topic who have encountered errors during the update -> if you have an error after the update, you may not have correctly rewritten the lines in the lemmy-ui Block. They must contain 2 words LEMMY: LEMMY_UI_LEMMY_***********
PS: Im running to start dev new UI :)
Great job figuring that out!
At some point it would be fun to work on some new guides anyway :-)
Yes i install on clear VDS fresh instance.
Ok, i write my steps here, hope you can help me and other users :)
Install VDS ubuntu 20
Go to Putty, connect ssh with root;pass
apt -y update && apt -y upgrade
apt -y install vim
Now i need instal docker
apt -y install ca-certificates curl gnupg lsb-release
curl -fsSL https://download.docker.com/linux/ubuntu/gpg | gpg --dearmor -o /usr/share/keyrings/docker-archive-keyring.gpg
echo "deb [arch=$(dpkg --print-architecture) signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/docker-archive-keyring.gpg] https://download.docker.com/linux/ubuntu $(lsb_release -cs) stable" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/docker.list > /dev/null
apt -y update
apt -y install docker-ce
sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 stop
sudo apt-get purge apache2
apt -y install nginx
sudo systemctl enable nginx
sudo systemctl start nginx
sudo systemctl status nginx
Ok, all works. There are no errors.
apt install certbot python3-certbot-nginx
certbot certonly --nginx -d uebishe.com,www.uebishe.com
write my mail, and agree all steps
Now i skip old step about "wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ansible/main/templates/nginx.conf -O lemmy.conf"
mkdir /var/www/uebishe.com
cd /var/www/uebishe.com
wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/main/config/defaults.hjson
wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/main/docker/prod/docker-compose.yml
mv defaults.hjson lemmy.hjson
mkdir -p volumes/pictrs
chown -R 991:991 volumes/pictrs
vi lemmy.hjson
change hostname to "uebishe.com" (without other changes, for the test)
And now, we run Docker Compose?
docker compose up -d
On step 6/7 in "Container uebishecom-proxy-1" terminal told me:
Error response from daemon: driver failed programming external connectivity on endpoint uebishecom-proxy-1 (e52f822be8a0dc7dab6a590c47a4854b6cf3878b9bf079688eadfd8e6ecf0092): Error starting userland proxy: listen tcp4 0.0.0.0:80: bind: address already in use
hmm... your advice?
Find on github comment about it. I will try
docker run --detach --publish 80:80 --name webserver nginx
but this doesnt help
Remove the following blocks from the docker-compose file:
networks:
# communication to web and clients
lemmyexternalproxy:
# communication between lemmy services
lemmyinternal:
driver: bridge
internal: true
proxy:
image: nginx:1-alpine
networks:
- lemmyinternal
- lemmyexternalproxy
ports:
# only ports facing any connection from outside
- 80:80
- 443:443
volumes:
- ./nginx.conf:/etc/nginx/nginx.conf:ro
# setup your certbot and letsencrypt config
- ./certbot:/var/www/certbot
- ./letsencrypt:/etc/letsencrypt/live
restart: always
depends_on:
- pictrs
- lemmy-ui
And try again. Does it work?
Terminal talk: service "pictrs" refers to undefined network lemmyinternal: invalid compose project
Sorry, I did not realize that these files had not yet been updated with the changes necessary for version 0.17.0, which are described here: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/blob/main/RELEASES.md#lemmy-v0170-release-2023-01-31
I could not find an example of the files configured correctly in github, so I have uploaded some example files. You get them this way:
wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Kradyz/Tutorials/main/files/lemmy.hjson
wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Kradyz/Tutorials/main/files/docker-compose.yml
Then modify the variables inside {}, like the domain name and the database password.
Oh maaan, Kradiz that you! BIG THX FOR YOUR GUIDE ON YOUTUBE. I will write soon if I succeeded.
No worries! Good luck!
Docker-compose been finished without errors, all good, but site doesnt work. I think there is some kind of error around the nginx installation on my 7 and 8 steps.
only http://ww.uebishe.com/ (straight HTTP and WWW) respond me:
Or, I have made an nginx config file that will work for you
If you already created an nginx configuration file, move it somewhere else. Then, get the new configuration file to the nginx folder, and then restart the nginx service by running these two commands:
sudo wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Kradyz/Tutorials/main/files/uebishe.conf /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/uebishe.conf
sudo systemctl restart nginx
Ah! So you skipped this step:
Now i skip old step about “wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ansible/main/templates/nginx.conf -O lemmy.conf”
You need to have the lemm.conf file under /etc/nginx/sites-enabled, this is the file that tells nginx how to manage the connection. Don't skip that step! Get that file and modify it by adding your domain name
Ok. I go try it from scratch again.
Yes i install on clear VDS fresh instance.
Ok, i write my steps here, hope you can help me and other users :)
Install VDS ubuntu 20
Go to Putty, connect ssh with root;pass
apt -y update && apt -y upgrade
apt -y install vim
Now i need instal docker
apt -y install ca-certificates curl gnupg lsb-release
curl -fsSL https://download.docker.com/linux/ubuntu/gpg | gpg --dearmor -o /usr/share/keyrings/docker-archive-keyring.gpg
echo "deb [arch=$(dpkg --print-architecture) signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/docker-archive-keyring.gpg] https://download.docker.com/linux/ubuntu $(lsb_release -cs) stable" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/docker.list > /dev/null
apt -y update
apt -y install docker-ce
sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 stop
sudo apt-get purge apache2
apt -y install nginx
sudo systemctl enable nginx
sudo systemctl start nginx
sudo systemctl status nginx
Ok, all works. There are no errors.
apt install certbot python3-certbot-nginx
certbot certonly --nginx -d uebishe.com,www.uebishe.com
write my mail, and agree all steps
wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ansible/main/templates/nginx.conf -O lemmy.conf
change params on
vi lemmy.conf
systemctl restart nginx
And now we have problem:
and journalctl -xe told me:
Try removing the lemmy.conf file from /etc/nginx/sites-enabled,
And then run:
sudo wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Kradyz/Tutorials/main/files/uebishe.conf /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/uebishe.conf
sudo systemctl restart nginx
nah, the same problem.
in addition, now I have run out of the limit for reissuing SSL certificates. Due to the fact that I cleaned and installed it from scratch more than five times. It seems that the limit will be reset tomorrow.
Oh no! It is possible to save your SSL certificates by simply copying the files into your computer, then you don't need to run the certbot again.
This is the least of the problems. At least it is solved simply by waiting :D
Maybe you will record a new video manual about how you manage to install lemmy 0.17?
I can do that, but I can't right now, I am very busy writing for my thesis unfortunately :/
If I manage to write enough tonight I might be able to do it tomorrow.
Yes, I understand, anytime you're free.
It's just that in the coming months I have a lot of time to continue developing the UI and I decided that it would be useful for the Lemmy community. Considering that I have already done this before. Hope i dont get stuck in such a stupid stage :D
I think that if you use the new docker-compile file, the one that includes the NGINX block, then you might not need to go through the step of the nginx configuration.
I have not tested this myself though, but I can test it when I make the updated tutorial.
https://shownotes.opensourceisawesome.com/lemmy/
now I'm trying to make an installation using this guide, but I'm facing similar problems. unfortunately, my knowledge is not enough to solve them, but I think it will be interesting for you to familiarize yourself with this in order to gain some knowledge, I do not know.
I may be wrong, but it seems all the problems are due to nginx :D
UPD: I also tried to do the following. I installed version 0.16.4 with this guide from opensourceisawesome.com, it was installed normally.
But when I tried to upgrade to 0.17 according to the official guide, I ran into problems again, the site crashed.