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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dcrich.net/post/1150

Boy howdy, there are a lot of people coming to the matrix chat trying to figure out how to get lemmy working on docker who are stuck on the official documentation. This document is my guide on how I got Lemmy working. I'll also share what I don't have working yet to inspire further.

Please feel free to steal anything you want from this and put it into the official docs. I don't know the contributing policy and it sounds hard and I'm busy at the moment.

Of note: I add a nginx container in this setup so that you don't have to do crazy hacks on your end for locations. If you already have an nginx reverse proxy that you are using, just use this one as a 2nd layer of nginx. There is low overhead, so don't worry about it.

Setup

For this guide, I'm requiring that you already have your own reverse proxy setup in place that