I am currently trying to create my own Lemmy instance and am following the join-lemmy.org docker guide. But unfortunately docker compose up doesn’t work with the default config and throw’s a yaml: line 32: found character that cannot start any token
error. Is there something I can do to fix this?
The section in question is
{% for item in lemmy_env_vars %}
{% for key, value in item.items() %}
- {{ key }}={{ value }}
{% endfor %}
{% endfor %}
{% endif %}
I’m not a pro at Docker, but I’ve spun up over 30 different services using Docker Compose so I’m more than a novice. I would say that Lemmy’s documentation is the worst I’ve ever seen.
The website points you at that compose file which is (I think?) designed for Ansible. I think there’s another example somewhere without all the jibbery joo, but I can’t search for it right now.
Edit: here it is https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/blob/main/docker/docker-compose.yml
No idea why they don’t link to that one in the first place. I’d fix it if I knew how.
If memory serves, the default docker compose expose the database port with a basic hard coded password, too. So imagine using the compose without reading too much, next thing you know you’re running a free Postgres database for the world.
Edit: yep, still publishing the db port with hard coded password…
Thank you, I was wondering, what that stuff was
I just updated my comment above with more info, FYI.
Try this docker-compose file: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/blob/main/docker/docker-compose.yml
Here’s the docs for pict-rs: https://git.asonix.dog/asonix/pict-rs/src/branch/main/pict-rs.toml
Everything in the config file has an env var you can set. The most important one is the
PICTRS__SERVER__API_KEY
as @walden already mentioned, the files in Lemmy’s documentation are the wrong ones. The correct file seems to be in https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/blob/main/docker/docker-compose.yml.
The documentation won’t help you if you don’t want to use Ansible.
I switched to using https://github.com/ubergeek77/Lemmy-Easy-Deploy by @ubergeek77@lemmy.ubergeek77.chat