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[–] tkohhh@waveform.social 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah the name you want for the database host is postgres, or whatever the container is named in the docker-compose.yml.

I was curious about this, and it turns out both work. I tested by pinging both postgres and lemmy_postgres_1, and both responded with the same IP address. Good to know, but I did go ahead and change it back to postgres

Maybe try a very simple password temporarily like test, rebuild the postgres container/delete the volumes and see if it works.

I did this, and I'm still getting the same error, so obviously something is wrong.

[–] tkohhh@waveform.social 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

This makes sense, and I do have a dollar sign in my password...

However, I have confirmed that postgres does in fact parse the password correctly, as I can log in with the defined username/password combo directly using psql

So I think that disproves this theory, doesn't it?

edit: I tried getting rid of the dollar sign just in case... unfortunately I'm still getting the same error

[–] tkohhh@waveform.social 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Thank you for enlightening me on the -W option in psql. I have successfully logged in using the expected password for lemmy. This points to something with the connection string. According to the error log, the connection string being used is:

postgres://lemmy:<my percent-encoded password>@postgres:5432/lemmy

As far as I can tell, the percent encoding is correct. Any ideas how to troubleshoot this further?

edit: it just occurred to me that my container name is lemmy_postgres_1, not postgres as was entered in my lemmy.hjson file. Let's see if changing that will work...

[–] tkohhh@waveform.social 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Frustratingly, when you use psql on the terminal, it does not prompt you for a password. So I'm still not sure if the password works or not :(

Ahh, ok... if you add the -W option when logging in to psql (psql -U lemmy -W), it will prompt for the password.

The password works! So, apparently it's something with the connection string.

[–] tkohhh@waveform.social 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Username definitely matches!

And yes, I have several special characters, but the password is surrounded by single quotes in docker-compose.yml, so that should not matter, right?

 

I'm trying to get Lemmy up and running on an Ubuntu 22.04 host. I've followed this guide supplemented by googling.

I can actually get to the front end, but it gives me "There was an error on the server." When I dig into the logs, I see this:

"thread 'main' panicked at 'Error connecting to postgres://lemmy:<my pg password>@postgres:5432/lemmy: FATAL:  password authentication failed for user \"lemmy\"\n","stream":"stderr","time":"2023-06-26T03:14:17.47460915Z"}

The only thing I can find about this error related to Lemmy is this thread, which indicates that the password was not defined in the docker-compose.yml file prior to starting the containers. I have since redone the configuration three times, each time deleting the volumes folder and double-checking that my postgre password is correct both in docker-compose.yml and lemmy.hjson.

Any ideas what might be the problem? Thank you kindly for any help you can provide!

[–] tkohhh@waveform.social 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Do you mind sharing what exactly you changed in order to get it to work? I got nginx_internal.conf installed, but did not make any changes to it. I'm not able to get the UI using http://:1236

I'm not a complete newb when it comes to nginx, but I'm having a hard time understanding what all the different parts are here. For instance, what is the lemmy-ui container for? Is that what needs to be exposed for me to access the UI? If so, I don't see any port mapping the in container definition, so is it hard-coded to use a specific port?

Any help you can provide is greatly appreciated!

 

Is there a reason we're not Federated with https://lemmit.online?

I'd like to subscribe to the Home Assistant community there.

[–] tkohhh@waveform.social 1 points 1 year ago

Influxdb + grafana for me! Good stuff!

[–] tkohhh@waveform.social 1 points 1 year ago

I don't know for sure... but my instinct is that NAT reflection is moot in that case, because your connection is going out past the edge router and doing the DNS query there, which will then direct you back to your public IP. I'm sure there's somebody around that knows the answer for certain!

[–] tkohhh@waveform.social 3 points 1 year ago (3 children)

If your router has NAT reflection, then the problem you describe is non existent. I use the same domain/protocol both inside and outside my network.

[–] tkohhh@waveform.social 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I like Photostructure as a way to browse my photos. It does logical deduping, and automatic organization of your photos (if you want it to). Like some others mentioned in this thread, it's a very young software, but the developer is very active and transparent about the progress.

Edit to add link: photostructure.com

[–] tkohhh@waveform.social 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Tangential point: if your "smart home" can be shut down by a third party, then you aren't Smart Homing correctly.

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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by tkohhh@waveform.social to c/waveform@waveform.social
 

I would occasionally pop into the LiveSound and AudioEngineering subreddits. Is there any interest in hosting those here? They seem to fit in with the theme of this server. Just a thought!

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