So I’ve been scratching my head for two days trying to get my own lemmy server up and running.

I have limited server hosting experience but I used to design html websites back in high school through wordpress and was able to successfully set up my own mastadon instance so I’m pretty decent at following instructions, but what keeps tripping me up is ansible and how the heck it works.

The instructions (https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ansible) are telling me to install ansible on my local machine using python3. On my windows machine I installed ansible using python but when i type the ansible command into terminal it gives me no command found. Is linux required as a host machine?

I have an account over at digitalocean and I’m willing to host my own ubuntu machine over there to get my instance running but I cannot for the life of me figure out how ansible is supposed to set up a server on my windows machine. ANY help would be GREATLY appreciated… I’m tearing my hair out and feel incredibly stupid right now :D

  • Veraticus@lib.lgbtEnglish
    13·
    1 year ago

    I would not self-host this on Windows; and if you’re not a seasoned server administrator I definitely wouldn’t use the Ansible (or even docker-compose) methods.

    I wrote some bash scripts that will help you deploy on fly.io if you like, which abstracts the hosting layer away a little bit: https://github.com/Veraticus/fly-lemmy

    That said if you’re not super comfortable in this space then debugging and correcting problems is also going to feel incredibly frustrating, so, just warning you.