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[Solved] Search bar on personal instance only returns local results (self.selfhosted)

submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by penguin_ex_machina to c/selfhosted

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Wanted to cross post this here in case someone has had this issue before. Been dealing with this for a couple of days now.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/94985

I set up my own personal Lemmy instance yesterday and everything seems to be up and running. I installed it on Docker with SSL enabled on a Digital Ocean droplet.

The only thing that doesn't seem to work is federated search. I can search local communities, but no matter what I do I can't get it to recognize other instances. I've tried:

Searching with the bang prefix (ie, [email protected])

Searching with the whole URL (https://lemmy.ml/c/lemmy_support)

Keywords ("lemmy support")

And nothing shows up. I've tried the same search terms multiple times over the past day or so and nothing is changing. My instance has federation and federation debugging enabled (although I can't figure out where the federation debugging outputs yet, because nothing in console log changes), and as far as I can tell there are no errors in the Docker logs that could point me in a specific direction. Where can I start looking to properly debug this?

EDIT: I needed to expose my lemmy backend to the proxy network. This answer here helped me get to the solution. Thanks so much! https://lemmy.world/comment/150173

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[–] penguin_ex_machina 1 points 2 years ago (2 children)

"No results" never goes away though. I've straight up left it and walked away for like 10 min and no change. That's why I'm starting to wonder if it's an issue with my instance.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Yeah it might very well be. Check here for possible help.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

My current flow is: search "[email protected]", wait a few seconds, browse to https://ymmel.nl/c/[email protected] - when it opens I'm able to subscribe.