Please, need help deploying a lemmy instance... (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by ZMonster@lemmy.world to c/lemmy_support@lemmy.ml

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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.

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[-] ZMonster@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I can't even get that far.

I used a different PC, installed WSL, created a new rsa key stored at "/home/wsl/.ssh". Added the public key to my DO droplet. Rebuilt the droplet to ensure that the keys transferred.

ssh -i /home/wsl/.ssh/id-rsa root@ip

Permission denied (public key)

every 👏 fucking 👏 time 👏

I would love to try the ansible method, but apparently I'm the only person to not just instinctively know how to ssh from another pc. I've searched for a reference to this and none of them help. Any advice?

[-] Max_P@lemmy.max-p.me 1 points 1 year ago

I think that's supposed to be an underscore in id_rsa, not id-rsa, unless you changed it from the default.

[-] ZMonster@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I figured out the problem, digital ocean was only applying the top RSA key, which is my Putty key. The keys I added to DO via WSL were not getting added to the authorized key list. So I added my key to the authorized keys file and it worked. Well, it let ansible access the server. I'm having other issues but will work on them later.

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