I'm sorry, that went over my head... i'm as new at this as you can be...

i don't see the database mentioned in that file

The hostname for your instance

Do NOT put http:// or https://

ONLY put your domain here. Subdomains are ok.

LEMMY_HOSTNAME="atosoul.zapto.org"

If you use Cloudflare, your Cloudflare API token. Otherwise leave blank.

If present, the DNS-01 challenge will be used to obtain valid HTTPS certificates

--> If you use the Cloudflare Proxy, DO NOT FORGET to enable Cloudflare's Full (Strict) SSL mode! <--

This token must have access to edit the Zone where $LEMMY_HOSTNAME is

Using this option will increase build time, as the DNS plugin needs to be compiled. Subsequent deploys will be faster.

CF_API_TOKEN=""

Whether or not to build Lemmy from source rather than use the Docker Hub images

This will significantly increase deploy time!

BUILD_FROM_SOURCE="false"

The name of your Lemmy instance, will be displayed on the site header (only used during first-time setup)

If you use special characters, please backslash-escape them.

SETUP_SITE_NAME="AtoSoul"

###############################################################

SETTINGS FOR ADVANCED USERS ONLY

I CANNOT HELP YOU WITH ISSUES RELATED TO THESE SETTINGS

###############################################################

The external port to use for Caddy's port 80

CADDY_HTTP_PORT=80

The external port to use for Caddy's port 443

CADDY_HTTPS_PORT=443

If true/1, also deploy the postfix server and configure Lemmy to send emails

NOTE: Port 25 is USUALLY disabled on most server providers. For this reason, the email service is not well tested

Feedback on the email service is appreciated!

USE_EMAIL="false"

If true/1, prefix the Caddy host block with http:// to disable TLS entirely

CADDY_DISABLE_TLS="false"

The options below will be passed directly to lemmy.hjson

See that file for how they will be used

Remember to backslash escape any special characters!

POSTGRES_POOL_SIZE="5" TLS_ENABLED="true" SETUP_ADMIN_USER="lemmy" LEMMY_NOREPLY_DISPLAY="Lemmy NoReply" LEMMY_NOREPLY_FROM="noreply"

i'm so sorry but i still don't understand...

root@laptop:/home/rain# docker exec -ti lemmy_postgresql_1 bash
Error response from daemon: No such container: lemmy_postgresql_1

here is the guide i followed that got me to this point... and then i checked that box with out understanding what i was doing...

Thank you for your response, but can you explain like I'm five? Lol

I don't know what you mean by connect to my database, I'm really new to this stuff, this is all really above my head.

==== Docker Information ====
Detected runtime: docker (Docker version 24.0.2, build cb74dfc)
Detected compose: docker compose (Docker Compose version v2.18.1)
   Runtime state: ERROR

==== System Information ====
MEMORY:                total        used        free      shared  buff/cache   available
Mem:           5.6Gi       1.7Gi       1.1Gi       325Mi       2.8Gi       3.3Gi
Swap:          2.0Gi          0B       2.0Gi

KERNEL: 5.19.0-45-generic (x86_64)
SHELL: /bin/bash
PRETTY_NAME="Ubuntu 22.04.2 LTS"
NAME="Ubuntu"
VERSION_ID="22.04"
VERSION="22.04.2 LTS (Jammy Jellyfish)"
VERSION_CODENAME=jammy
ID=ubuntu
ID_LIKE=debian
HOME_URL="https://www.ubuntu.com/"
SUPPORT_URL="https://help.ubuntu.com/"
BUG_REPORT_URL="https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/"
PRIVACY_POLICY_URL="https://www.ubuntu.com/legal/terms-and-policies/privacy-policy"
UBUNTU_CODENAME=jammy

==== Lemmy Easy Deploy Information ====
Version: 1.1.4
Integrity:
    a84c0dfab3cab81bca79e53784501fecd202324d9c476438e760097d9e77b60c  ./deploy.sh
    1e9b0c0988998dcc33cb0fbfdb0e1679229424e724f898b797380adc7d102446  ./templates/Caddy-Dockerfile.template
    c1202e70662dd2228da36a35a0f38ec8fc81bec8964d7315d02e8671a58dd7d7  ./templates/Caddyfile.template
    7754ef7e8aa7e925becfcbbda0f873387533397a0756405741f4f4b9eb7f7253  ./templates/cloudflare.snip
    1df196524e8d55a4be93b5bf401669d61b372c4f6f7670da83ab1947631fd0ed  ./templates/compose-email.snip
    839ce56196227e2bac2291ee045ef95bc6af9c9706396352f39cb0812754c5c1  ./templates/compose-email-volumes.snip
    06cfd023e5c61bd4cbda9809ba35e4e99eaf090e3d674612bc3c04fe58eee397  ./templates/docker-compose.yml.template
    308b8a122ee03cb9f5279fc2ad79663b0bffb2ed2a4042b96f678715cc997914  ./templates/lemmy-email.snip
    8f25408461972b9b66ee3c4d3f6430e2e1eaa950394d2d8b7e3d1287fe0d8f07  ./templates/lemmy.hjson.template

==== Settings ====
BUILD_FROM_SOURCE=false
CADDY_HTTP_PORT=80
CADDY_HTTPS_PORT=443
USE_EMAIL=false
CADDY_DISABLE_TLS=false
POSTGRES_POOL_SIZE=5
TLS_ENABLED=true

==== Generated Files ====
total 36K
drwxr-xr-x 2 0 0 4.0K Jun 26 09:53 caddy
-rw-r--r-- 1 0 0   33 Jun 27 05:29 caddy.env
-rw-r--r-- 1 0 0 2.0K Jun 27 05:29 docker-compose.yml
-rw-r--r-- 1 0 0   50 Jun 26 09:53 lemmy.env
-rw-r--r-- 1 0 0  469 Jun 27 05:29 lemmy.hjson
-rw-r--r-- 1 0 0   49 Jun 26 09:53 pictrs.env
-rw-r--r-- 1 0 0   37 Jun 27 05:29 postfix.env
-rw-r--r-- 1 0 0   51 Jun 26 09:53 postgres.env
-rw-r--r-- 1 0 0    7 Jun 27 05:30 version

I just finished setting up a personal instance, but I can't figure out how to run this on my machine? Can someone eli5?

Fun fact: Beehaw defederated with Lemmy.world as well.

I'm glad that helped!

You can also use the previous version of Jerboa.

It's actually pretty straight forward once someone takes the time to explain it. I'll try.

These ! Links are supposed to be universal I think. [email protected]

Then there's the long URL, https://lemmy.ml/c/[email protected]

First you start with your instance then /c/ just like Reddit did with r/ it means you're looking for a community, then an @ to target another instance.

In this example I started at lemmy.ml told it I was looking for a community, then told it where the that community lives in this case lemmy.world

When searching for a community by URL use the website only. No apps currently support it yet I think.

Edit: you can also just do it in the URL like this

https://lemmy.world/c/[email protected]

[email protected]

Some people think it'll work just extremely slowly! Lol we'll see I guess.