G’day, I just got Lemmy going on my site https://apollo.town and it doesn’t appear to be federating. I ran through the Lemmy troubleshooting docs and I can return valid JSON from the site, but I can’t look up anything on lemmy.ml from my site - although I can look up my site from lemmy.ml.
Caddy is my reverse proxy with the world’s simplest config:
root@apollotown:~/lemmy# cat Caddyfile
# apollo.town Lemmy instance
apollo.town {
reverse_proxy :4040
}
Blew away the database and it’s still there. Removed all references to apollo.town in the docker-compose, lemmy.hjson, and nginx, other than in the lemmy.json where it SPECIFICALLY says to put your domain name. I’ll change that anyway to try it
Ah HA! Whatever I add to lemmy.hjson is added as a federated instance.
# the domain name of your instance (eg "lemmy.ml") hostname: "lemmy.ml"And now lemmy.ml is listed as my only linked instance.
yeah that should be your own hostname… “apollo.town”.