I'm trying this on Ubuntu 22.04
Rust's cargo install seems to keep creating permission problems between what I have to install, compile and what gets published in the cargo "registry", which causes issues at runtime when I run as lemmy:lemmy through systemctl.
If I run:
cargo install lemmy_server --target-dir /usr/bin/ --locked --features embed-pictrs
as a non-root user, I get permission denied issues with /usr/bin/.future-incompat-report.json and /usr/bin/release
If I run the build as a root user, and then manually copy the binaries to /usr/bin and chmod them to lemmy:lemmy, then try to run as lemmy:lemmy, it appears the binary is trying to access some "registry" files in /root/.cargo/registry (for which of course it does not have permissions.)
How do I fix this?
No, I had to dig around too, the correct command is:
curl localhost:8536/api/v3/siteThank you, again!
How was I to know {version} in the REST endpoint path was supposed to be "v3"?
Any luck with the lemmy-ui install?
I knew it was v3 because I saw a webapp failure on one of the Lemmy instance (lemmy.ml) I was using ;) We need to update those install documents.
It seems right now I can get a client to load, but websockets aren't working. Others on Reddit reported the same issue: https://old.reddit.com/r/Lemmy/comments/142sszq/spinning_up_lemmy_websockets_dont_connect/
EDIT: Ok, I solved the websocket problem by using proper nginx config that the instructions said. I was confused about the domain names with the certification generation as I already had some nginx certs for other subdomains in place.
I found another documentation page that actually tells you how to get the "v3" version....
https://join-lemmy.org/docs/en/contributors/04-api.html
That needs to be part of the "Lemmy from Scratch" documentation page too.