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I have a specific question if anyone happens to know the answer.

Do anyone know how and where to create the pictrs directory for Lemmy? I'm getting an error any time I try to upload files.

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[–] hardly_alex 8 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Are you doing the docker install, ansible or all by yourself?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Okay, I'll bet you're best off with r3df0xs answer.

Good luck!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You probably forgot this line: sudo chown -R 991:991 volumes/pictrs

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm not sure where that is or even if it exists. The Lemmy installation is under /var/www/lemmy

It doesn't use Docker. It was installed using Yunohost.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

That sounds like it’s a commercial service. They should have a support option you can ask. It sounds like their deployment scripts are broken. Ansible and Docker are the easiest ways to run Lemmy, I’m guessing these guy’s scripts are just grabbing the docker images and launching them for you.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'll see if I can find the script it uses and check but I think it's installed directly because I was able to fix the site when it didn't work after a restart using service lemmy restart.

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

No, it won’t work if it’s deployed wrong. Is this a shared host or a VPS service? If it’s a shared host and you’re just clicking a button to deploy a software package, it that host’s job to make that button work right.