I just found the typo in that file and fixed it. Site is back up and running! Thank you for your help!

thread ‘main’ panicked at ‘Failed to load settings file: LemmyError { message: None, inner: TrailingCharacters at 99:4 at “email: {\n# #”, context: “SpanTrace” }’, crates/utils/src/settings/mod.rs:18:33

I’ll see about getting you the docker-compose.yml file.

I’ve followed all of those instructions, making the necessary changes, and now I’m getting this error:

404: FetchError: request to http://lemmy:8536/api/v3/site? failed, reason: getaddrinfo EAI_AGAIN lemmy

Thanks for this. I had no idea these existed. I’ll have to read through and make changes.

Thanks for all the hard work!

And that number keeps going up.

Fantastic answer! Thanks so much :)

fail2ban is good, but needs to be configured properly.

Thank you for responding kindly. Is there a resource that you’d recommend looking into proper configuration?

Thank you. I will look into this.

What an incredible app! I’ll be using this for travel. My wife is an avid mountain hiker and she’s going to start using this as well.

Using Lemmy on a smart phone with a browser should work fine since the site is built to be responsive. However, having a native Lemmy application for Android and iOS could provide opportunities for further feature development that isn’t included with the browser version. That is why I believe it is a good idea to keep these apps going.

mobile websites

Are you referring to websites that are mobile responsive?

Maybe, there are developers out there that could make a mobile app experience ‘different’ than the browser experience. I believe there are.

In what way have they “taken a back seat?” Taken a back seat to what?

Taken a back seat to browser development.

…and look like they’re actively maintained.

Not as actively as the browser development.

I don’t believe those client apps are built by the same folks as Lemmy…

They aren’t except for ‘jerboa’.

…therefore whether they “function properly” is purely a concern for their developers and users.

It’s a concern because most users connect to the Internet through mobile apps.

Lemmy is non-commercial and as such “the market” doesn’t work in the same way as an integrated product like Instagram, Twitter, etc.

I’m not addressing the differing world market systems. I’m addressing how most people connect to the Internet.

Thank you!

Shared here.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Done: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/2084

Would this issue fall under the front-end UI or the back-end?

@dessalines@lemmy.ml @nutomic@lemmy.ml

Thank you.

Thanks!

Yeah, thanks. That ‘oopsie’ doesn’t seem to be a pressing issue right now. However, I could be wrong.

I promise to make the announcement here, yes.

I made my first monetary contribution to Lemmy because this bug fix was released so quickly. Fantastic response IMHO.

Never mind. You were correct. It was in the lemmy.hjson file. Thanks!

Maybe I’ve missed something, but let me tell you what I’ve done and see if you can catch anything that I may have done wrong. OK?

I first logged into PostgreSQL and used the ALTER ROLE to change the password of the user that is accessing the ‘beehaw_db’ database. I made sure that this exact password is entered properly in both the docker-compose.yml and lemmy.hjson files.

I’m still getting the same authentication error. Am I missing something? What would you recommend as far as troubleshooting this?

In the lemmy.hjson I had the wrong database name. I’ve changed it to 'beehaw_db which I can see the ‘owner’, in postgres itself, is ‘admin’. So, I changed the username to ‘admin’ in the same hjson file.

Now, I’m getting:

lemmy_1 | 2022-01-24T15:57:58.976448Z ERROR r2d2: FATAL: password authentication failed for user "admin"

{
  # for more info about the config, check out the documentation
  # https://join-lemmy.org/docs/en/administration/configuration.html

   # settings related to the postgresql database
   # address where pictrs is available
   pictrs_url: "http://pictrs:8080"
   database: {
    # name of the postgres database for lemmy
    database: "lemmy"
    # username to connect to postgres
    user: "lemmy"
    # password to connect to postgres
    password: “baconshit”
    # host where postgres is running
    host: "postgres"
    # port where postgres can be accessed
    port: 5432
    # maximum number of active sql connections
    pool_size: 5
  }
    # the domain name of your instance (eg "lemmy.ml")
  hostname: "beehaw.org"
    # Settings related to activitypub federation
  federation: {
    # Whether to enable activitypub federation.
    enabled: true
    # Allows and blocks are described here:
    # https://join-lemmy.org/docs/en/federation/administration.html///instance-allowlist-and-blocklist
    #
    # list of instances with which federation is allowed
    allowed_instances: [
      lemmy.ca
      midwest.social
      /* ... */
    ]
    # Instances which we never federate anything with (but previously federated objects are unaffected)
    blocked_instances: [
      string
      /* ... */
    ]
    # If true, only federate with instances on the allowlist and block everything else. If false
    # use allowlist only for remote communities, and posts/comments in local communities
    # (meaning remote communities will show content from arbitrary instances).
    strict_allowlist: true
  }
#  tls_enabled: true
}

I went to the server and logged into PostgeSQL. I used the \du command to list all the users. There are only 2 users. Namely, ‘postgres’ and ‘admin’. There isn’t a ‘lemmy’ user. So, why am I getting an error that states:

password authentication failed for user "lemmy"?

I’ve added those creds back in and I’m getting this in the Docker logs:

lemmy_1 | 2022-01-23T19:46:10.980030Z ERROR r2d2: FATAL: password authentication failed for user "lemmy"

Also, browser still throws:

https://beehaw.org/404?err=FetchError:%20request%20to%20http://lemmy:8536/api/v3/site?%20failed,%20reason:%20connect%20ECONNREFUSED%20172.30.0.4:8536

Not sure what to try next. Any ideas? Thanks again for the help.

Another developer, on Matrix yesterday, told me that the only required field was hostname.

I did not miss those instructions. I set a custom database password several months ago.

Just to be clear, the only file (or anything for that matter) that I changed yesterday was the lemmy.hjson configuration file. Absolutely nothing else was changed on the server.

Installed with Docker, yes. I’ve edited the post to include docker-compose.yml file. Thanks.

I can’t believe that I missed that! Thank you.

How do I do that?