Comment on Problems with creating my own instance

• hedgehog@ttrpg.network ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  If you use that docker compose file, I recommend you comment out the build section and uncomment the image section in the lemmy service.

  I also recommend you use a reverse proxy and Docker networks rather than exposing the postgres instance on port 5433, but if you aren’t familiar with Docker networks you can leave it as is for now. If you’re running locally and don’t open that port in your router’s firewall, it’s a non-issue unless there’s an attacker on your LAN, but given that you’re not gaining anything from exposing it (unless you need to connect to the DB directly regularly - as a one off you could temporarily add the port mapping), it doesn’t make sense to increase your attack surface for no benefit.

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• walden@sub.wetshaving.social ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I just updated my comment above with more info, FYI.

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