I have tried the docker, ansible, and scratch methods. I have been troubleshooting for a month now. I have gotten nowhere. I need someone to help walk me through how to deploy a lemmy server because the guides are absolute trash.

Please help. I’m wasting money running this VPS and for literally nothing.

Edit: So, I’ve tried the ansible method, but I can’t access my server this way. It just keeps saying “UNREACHABLE”. I have generated a dozen keys, none of them work. I have NO PROBLEMS with ssh in Putty. I can use Putty all day. Putty works fine using my ssh key. Ansible does not. No amount of new keys has made any difference. I have countless keys in my stupid droplet because of this hacky garbage.

  • zergling_man@lemmy.perthchat.org
    0·
    1 year ago

    putty

    That’s your problem. Putty does keys differently to normal ssh.

    ansible

    docker

    .

    So, why can’t you install lemmy? I’m going to assume you’re using ubuntu. If you are willing to swap to arch (which I think DO offers), I recommend it. Get an AUR helper installed (a bit of hassle, I like trizen) and install lemmy from AUR. You’ll need to bump the commit unless you like 0.17.3. I’ll be doing that tonight so I can post relevant bits. If not, post errors.

    Or just keep doing containers so you can have weird and wonderful errors like no dns.

  • rglullis@communick.newsEnglish
    01·
    1 year ago

    No to demotivate you from trying it, but if you really want to use your instance instead of working on it, may I suggest you try a managed hosting provider?

    Communick has managed lemmy instances which are affordable, you don’t need to worry about updates or backups and offer a free 14-day trial.

    (Obvious disclosure, I run this service)