I have tried the docker, ansible, and scratch methods. I have been troubleshooting for a month now. I have gotten nowhere. I need someone to help walk me through how to deploy a lemmy server because the guides are absolute trash.

Please help. I’m wasting money running this VPS and for literally nothing.

Edit: So, I’ve tried the ansible method, but I can’t access my server this way. It just keeps saying “UNREACHABLE”. I have generated a dozen keys, none of them work. I have NO PROBLEMS with ssh in Putty. I can use Putty all day. Putty works fine using my ssh key. Ansible does not. No amount of new keys has made any difference. I have countless keys in my stupid droplet because of this hacky garbage.

  • whenever8186
    2·
    1 year ago

    Do you have a local device you can try all this on first so you’re not wasting money?

    I agree the guides aren’t great, but they assume you have some experience doing this stuff.

    • ZMonster@lemmy.worldOP
      22·
      1 year ago

      but they assume you have some experience doing this stuff

      I can appreciate that, but I don’t. So, if you are saying that I should just quit because I’m not an experience web developer, then thanks, and no thanks.

      For the better part of the last two decades, once or twice a year I throw a linux distro on a computer to see how it is. And of those several dozen times, EVERY SINGLE TIME, I have encountered an issue that needed troubleshooting and was never resolved. And every single time, I have found myself being advised that “you just have to know how to do this already”. So I get what you are saying, but I don’t. I don’t have experience with this because it always ends up like this. I fucking hate windows, but it works. I can google a problem and find a solution within minutes. Literally any problem has a solution. Not so with linux. Just a lot of people telling me I just need to “know more”.

      • appel@whiskers.bim.boats
        2·
        1 year ago

        I’m sorry you’ve had this experience. It’s not nice to be told that you shouldn’t even try. I think though, that this poster does have a point in that it might be a good idea to stop paying for the hosting of the VPS, practice installing on a local device you have at home, spare laptop etc.(a VM on your own PC would probably work too) and then when you have that going smoothly, try on the VPS again. I haven’t personally used the Ansible install so not sure of it’s quirks, but I’ll try and answer some of your questions.

      • whenever8186
        2·
        1 year ago

        I am not telling you to quit I’m not telling you to know more. I was merely suggesting that the devs put out the minimal required documentation for an experienced admin to get it up and running, while also suggesting a way to not waste money.

        Sorry it came out wrong.