I’m working on an idea to improve comment sorting and I need to be able to get Lemmy running from source so I can implement and test it.

Right now I’m stuck on a fairly basic (I hope) problem.

I’m mostly following https://join-lemmy.org/docs/administration/from_scratch.html I’m running it on Debian instead of Ubuntu but I don’t think that’s the problem. (specifically a t2.small with the AWS Debian image). I’m also using 0.18.4 instead of 0.18.2. I also haven’t (yet) done the possibly optional step of editing postgres config to allow password authentication instead of peer authentication.

Everything seems fine until I start Lemmy. After I run

systemctl enable lemmy; systemctl start lemmy

I try

curl -I localhost:8536/api/0.18.4/site

But I get:

HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found
content-length: 0
vary: Origin, Access-Control-Request-Method, Access-Control-Request-Headers
date: Wed, 27 Sep 2023 17:51:51 GMT

When I check

journalctl -u lemmy

It does contain:

Starting http server at 127.0.0.1:8536

There are still a bunch of things I’ll be trying but I wanted to check if this is a well known problem with a simple solution.

  • Rikudou_Sage@lemmings.worldEnglish
    5·
    1 year ago

    Sorry, forgot to include the port. Don’t use the -I option with curl - it sends a HEAD request instead of a GET one and Lemmy doesn’t support HEAD requests (at least the site endpoint doesn’t).

    If you want to see the headers, you can use curl http://localhost:8536/api/v3/site -v (the -v means verbose).

    I assume that /ap/v3/site is dynamically generated

    Yes.

    • aprenticOP
      3·
      1 year ago

      Well hot damn. It worked!

      Thanks.

      Now I’m off to follow the rest of the steps. Wish me luck.