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.

  • ZMonster@lemmy.worldOP
    1·
    1 year ago

    I am willing to try any method you prefer. I’ve failed at all of them and have no preference. I don’t care how I get it working, I just need to see something work. Please, please, please help!!!

  • whenever8186@feddit.uk
    1·
    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
      12·
      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”.

      • whenever8186@feddit.uk
        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.