I was hoping to get some help from you all, since I assume there are a good number of people here selfhosting their own instance of Lemmy. There doesn’t appear to be a search bar for per community searching, so I thought I’d post my question in case anyone else has a similar one. I’ve created my own Lemmy instance running in Docker based on the dev’s provided documentation. Used their example docker-compose.yml file and others, and just customized the needed options. I’ve got everything working except one important part, TLS/SSL certs. I’m not familiar with nginx at all, but it seems like I simply need to map another volume from local:container for the cert, however when I’ve mapped certbot/conf/:/etc/nginx/ssl/ and restart all the containers, this doesn’t enable HTTPS.

I’ve read a couple different places online that talk about adding CertBot as a service etc, however none of these were specially for Lemmy. So I wasn’t sure this would work given the extra config file for nginx. Any advice on how you all got this to work would be appreciated! Thank you in advance :)

  • Dandroid@dandroid.appEnglish
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    1 year ago

    it seems like I simply need to map another volume from local:container for the cert, however when I’ve mapped certbot/conf/:/etc/nginx/ssl/ and restart all the containers, this doesn’t enable HTTPS.

    I originally did it this way. You need to modify your nginx config to enable SSL and use the certs.

    Eventually I decided that I wanted to host more than one web page, so I ended up going with the reverse proxy approach. With that approach, your docker containers are only using http with no encryption, and your reverse proxy is adding the SSL/TLS to it and making it HTTPS.