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How does Lemmy work with search engines? (self.asklemmy)

submitted 1 year ago by melonpunk to c/[email protected]

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One thing Reddit dominates on is search results. I'm looking things up and seeing so many links to reddit, which I guess is going to help keep that place relevant (unless those subreddits stay dark).

I wondered how Lemmy and this fed thingy stuff all works for that? With more posts can we expect to see people arriving through search results?

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

One easy way to do that is to set up something like Nginx as a reverse proxy in front and forward /api clean, but forward everything else with basic auth.

The steps broadly would be:

Set up an Nginx instance
Set up a block in Nginx to proxy / to your Lemmy instance
Set up basic auth on that block
Set up a smaller block that will only proxy calls to /api and other endpoints you want public, like previously with /
Make your Lemmy instance unreachable from the broader internet, eg. if you're on a single server, make it listen on 127.0.0.1 instead of 0.0.0.0, but make sure Nginx can still reach it

And you're done.

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

In a nutshell, that's pretty much what I did.