Edit: Solved! See solution in comments

I’ve setup a self hosted lemmy docker and it works when accessing directly on the same subnet.

I don’t have ports opened in my firewall and my ISP don’t offer static IP so I rely on Clouflare tunnel as an alternative.

I’m able to load the front page, but can’t sign in. I don’t cache JavaScript through Cliudflare so I believe it’s relating to Websockets, but curious if anyone else has been able to get this working?

  • @kbrotEnglish
    1•11 months ago

    Hi, I’m hoping you can help me as it seems our setups are very similar and the documentation around this project is abysmal.

    Using their packaged nginx, I have successfully launched lemmy instance accessible to the public net, but I can only get it without SSL/HTTPS and it’s not federated.

    Using Nginx Proxy Manager, I can of course get a correctly SSL certified site but for the life of me I can’t forward correctly through to the Lemmy server.

    Question when you have a moment…

    • In NPM, is the Forward Hostname the machine IP (in my case, the external IP of my VPS) or is it the internal Docker-assigned IP for the Lemmy container?
    • What external hostnames do you have set in your docker-compose.yml? Is it the full typed DNS domain (Cloudlfare in your case, mine’s DDNS) or is it the raw external IP again?

    Thanks for whatever you can provide!