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Having trouble deploying Lemmy? Try my new script! Get up and running in minutes! (github.com)
submitted 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) by ubergeek77@lemmy.ubergeek77.chat to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
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In the past few days, I've seen a number of people having trouble getting Lemmy set up on their own servers. That motivated me to create Lemmy-Easy-Deploy, a dead-simple solution to deploying Lemmy using Docker Compose under the hood.

To accommodate people new to Docker or self hosting, I've made it as simple as I possibly could. Edit the config file to specify your domain, then run the script. That's it! No manual configuration is needed. Your self hosted Lemmy instance will be up and running in about a minute or less. Everything is taken care of for you. Random passwords are created for Lemmy's microservices, and HTTPS is handled automatically by Caddy.

Updates are automatic too! Run the script again to detect and deploy updates to Lemmy automatically.

If you are an advanced user, plenty of config options are available. You can set this to compile Lemmy from source if you want, which is useful for trying out Release Candidate versions. You can also specify a Cloudflare API token, and if you do, HTTPS certificates will use the DNS challenge instead. This is helpful for Cloudflare proxy users, who can have issues with HTTPS certificates sometimes.

Try it out and let me know what you think!

https://github.com/ubergeek77/Lemmy-Easy-Deploy

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[-] ubergeek77@lemmy.ubergeek77.chat 0 points 3 years ago

I see. Thanks a lot for this!

I really don't have the capacity to support a bunch of different email services, so it sounds like the best I can do right now is make the SMTP settings accessible without also running the postfix server. So if someone wants to run their own email somewhere else, they can configure it. But otherwise, I'll leave it to the user to figure out what happens after an email request leaves Lemmy.

Does that sound fair, and like something you would have used? Essentially just an interface in config.env that puts the right SMTP address/credentials in lemmy.hjson.

[-] b3nsn0w@pricefield.org 0 points 3 years ago

yup, that sounds perfect

i can't track down a non vendor-specific guide right now but if you just expose the same settings in config.env that you'd have in the lemmy.hjson file that should be more than sufficient to get an external service going

[-] ubergeek77@lemmy.ubergeek77.chat 2 points 3 years ago

Thanks!

I've got that included in a staging version I'm preparing to release, if you wanted to take a look at the changes:

https://github.com/ubergeek77/Lemmy-Easy-Deploy/issues/17

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