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
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    1 year 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!