Having trouble deploying Lemmy? Try my new script! Get up and running in minutes!

As someone who spent hours figuring out how to deploy through Ansible, how dare you _/s But seriously thank you for putting in the work to make creating an instance more attainable for people.

Really awesome work. We need more Lemmy servers!

Literally been thinking about this so thank you beautiful brained individual. Would you mind if I shouted this in the YSK group?

Been pounding my head against the desk for the last TWO DAYS trying to get everything to work. Then you came along and solved all of my problems and it only took me 10 minutes to set up (mostly due to waiting on DNS to flush!)

THANK YOU SO MUCH for creating this, and PLEASE continue to maintain! I will gib coffees if need be along the way!!

I'm relatively competent installing server software, but the Lemmy instructions completely flummoxed me. Their docker instructions just don't work.

I ended up using the ansible docker scripts and filling out the blanks because I'm unfamiliar with ansible.

If this is as good as it sounds, you're doing everyone a massive favour.

The check $LEMMY_HOSTNAME == http* will give a false positive if (for whatever reason) the domain name starts with http

You kind Sir/Lady/Gentleperson are making the fediverse a better place with this help. Thanks a bunch, gonna definitely ease my attempts at eventually self-hosting!

I will definitely try this out. I already have my domain and SSL certificate. This will work on linode right?

I appreciate the effort, but for software as experimental as Lemmy I would argue making things 1-click "simple" will inevitably lead to people breaking their instances in the future, when some migration will be required.

I would strongly suggest people figure things on their own.

Looks great my dude.
If you expanded out the environment variables a ton, making it more customizable, (with default values in place of couse) this could appeal to a huge range of people.

I just made a post about having issues with getting a fully functional instance so I think I'm gonna give this a try.

Wow, I'll definitely look into this, thanks! Even if I don't use it, it still may be useful just reading through it.

Nice! Looks like it even has update checker as well. Is there any reason why pictrs is not included in the update checker and hardcoded to version 0.3.1?

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Thanks, this looks really nice. Bookmarked :)

Will try this tomorrow. Tried them all. Nothing seems to work! I have been at it the whole week trying.

Works great on Linode!!

I used this and the developer is very helpful. Works great. Helped me even upgrade to 0.18.0.

As someone who spent hours figuring out how to deploy through Ansible, how dare you _/s But seriously thank you for putting in the work to make creating an instance more attainable for people.

After trying to do it with docker or ansible manually for hours and failing, this was soo helpful. So thank you.

This was the only tool that I was able to get running. I recommend it to anyone curious about running their own instance. I tried both the official Ansible and Docker instructions, and neither worked.

This was absolutely amazing. I was having some trouble with the build process using the docker compose from Lemmy itself, but this just instantly worked. Thank you!

Looks really good. I did it pretty much the same way, myself - but if I were looking to start again, I would definitely use this.

Edit: Ran it on a fresh AWS Ubuntu instance and it worked perfectly fine.

Thanks for the helpful tool! Posting this from my new single-user Lemmy instance. I ended up tweaking the compose template a bit to remove Caddy since I already have it running on this VPS for other services. Wasn't too bad to just take the Caddyfile information and add it to my own existing framework.

Marius Hosting published a good guide this week that I used on my nas without an issue (via docker compose).

Hi @ubergeek77@lemmy.ubergeek77.chat

I must be doing something wrong here because unlike many others I can't seem to get this working! Please can you offer some advice?

I have amended the config.env file to change the HOSTNAME, SITE NAME and ADMIN USER but left everything else the same.

I then ran ./deploy.sh and everything seems to have worked because it presented me with the admin login credentials and basic instructions to shutdown and start the instance. I tried simply typing the IP address of the docker container in to a browser but that didn't work and TBH I didn't expect it to. I then typed the URL into the browser and I'm getting a "ERR_TOO_MANY_REDIRECTS" error message. I read through the trouble shooting on your Github but the only reference to too many redirects mentions a Cloudflare API token, I'm not using Cloudflare nut I am using nginx proxy manager to point my URL to the docker container.

I hope some of this makes sense.

You are helping the whole community! Thank you, I will give a try to it, since I'm quite new in self-hosted platform!

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A bit OT, but worth the shot: can anyone confirm whether instances deployed with this script can be found on Mastodon?

I have tried both the ansible script provided by the developers and I've adapted the docker-compose files to get things running on Docker Swarm. Everything seems to be working well, object storage, federation... except that I can not find any user or community from my instance if I search from Mastodon.

What adjustments I need to do to run this locally (in my LAN) just for testing?

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Threw an error:

Creating lemmy-easy-deploy_pictrs_1 ... 
Creating lemmy-easy-deploy_postgres_1 ... error

ERROR: for lemmy-easy-deploy_postgres_1  Cannot start service postgres: failed to create task for container: failed to create shim task: OCI runtime create failed: runc cr
Creating lemmy-easy-deploy_pictrs_1   ... error: permission denied: unknown

Is this easier than the Ansible deployment? That was very straight forward if you’re running a system with apt.

Way cool. Can you provide something for unRaid?

So stupid question - how do you shut them down? Docker compose down or stop don't seem to work.

Also, as an intermediate (spoiled Unraid) user, if I'm behind nginx proxy manager with custom ports do I just change 80 and 443 in the lemmy docker-compose? I'm doing this in a Debian VM.

Any tips on how to customize the favicon for my instance? Using the docker-compose method.

Hey @ubergeek77@lemmy.ubergeek77.chat, I'm trying this on an Aarm64 instance and the script says it only works on v0.17.4. Is there a plan to update to 0.18?

EDIT: the script fails for 0.17.4 here:

=> ERROR [lemmy builder 6/7] RUN cargo build --release 1183.5s

Build timer continues but CPU usage drops off. Any ideas where I've gone wrong?