Hi, does anybody have an idea what the reason could be? I installed a lemmy instance on a VPS using the docker images. Beforehand I installed nginx and got a letsencrypt - certificate (which seems to have worked). I downloaded the nginx.conf file from github and made the configurations, also in the lemmy.config and docker-compose.yml files. However, I’m unsure if there’s anything else I should look at. Any tips are welcome :)
Hi there!
You don’t need to install and run nginx on the host. It has its own container in the docker-compose.yml which gets started up on
docker-compose up -dIf both instances of nginx are trying to bind to the same port, one will start and one will fail.
Is the lemmy proxy nginx docker container running? Check with:
docker psordocker container ls. If the lemmy nginx proxy container isn’t running, try stopping the host instance of nginx (systemctl nginx stop) and restart docker lemmy (docker-compose down,docker-compose up -d), the try to access your site again.TL;DR: probably have an nginx misconfiguration. Check the nginx logs for errors.
that seems to have been part of the problem, as I indeed had nginx running on the host as well. Now I get the error code “website cannot be reached” when I try to go to my instance in the browser.
I tried to follow the configuration for nginx as was in the template file on github, but I most probably have an error there. One thing confuses me, that’s the ports for lemmy and the lemmy UI. I think they should be 8536 an 1235 respectively, but sometimes it says 1234 and 1236 for the UI port as well. Also in the template I’m using (https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ansible/blob/main/templates/nginx.conf#L63) there is only one section to enter ports: proxy_pass http://0.0.0.0:{{lemmy_port}}; - which port do I enter here?
if you happen to know, please let me know :)