Edit: Solved! See solution in comments

I’ve setup a self hosted lemmy docker and it works when accessing directly on the same subnet.

I don’t have ports opened in my firewall and my ISP don’t offer static IP so I rely on Clouflare tunnel as an alternative.

I’m able to load the front page, but can’t sign in. I don’t cache JavaScript through Cliudflare so I believe it’s relating to Websockets, but curious if anyone else has been able to get this working?

  • weckhorst@lemmy.mlOPEnglish
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    1 year ago

    OK, so for anyone who might stumble across this in the future; I solved it. Kinda.

    Basically, what’s happening is that lemmy is using the site URI for the human-readable content and /api for api stuff (including login, loading and a bunch of other stuff).

    I tried setting up two sites in the tunnel; one to lemmy.mydomain and one to lemmy.mydomain/api but that didn’t seem to work. Presumably due to websocket calls not being re-routed.

    What I opted to do was to setup lemmy.mydomain to my Nginx Reverse Proxy (I manage it using Nginx Proxy Manager). From there I added a proxy host pointing to my lemmy ui docker container and created a custom location for /api, pointing to the backend at port 8536.

    The result is working great and all functions (that I’ve tested so far) is working without a hitch! Certificates are automatically managed by Cloudflare and I also get the adde dbenefit that Cloudflare offers on DNS and filtering while allowing access to my lemmy instance.