So I’ve been scratching my head for two days trying to get my own lemmy server up and running.
I have limited server hosting experience but I used to design html websites back in high school through wordpress and was able to successfully set up my own mastadon instance so I’m pretty decent at following instructions, but what keeps tripping me up is ansible and how the heck it works.
The instructions (https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ansible) are telling me to install ansible on my local machine using python3. On my windows machine I installed ansible using python but when i type the ansible command into terminal it gives me no command found. Is linux required as a host machine?
I have an account over at digitalocean and I’m willing to host my own ubuntu machine over there to get my instance running but I cannot for the life of me figure out how ansible is supposed to set up a server on my windows machine. ANY help would be GREATLY appreciated… I’m tearing my hair out and feel incredibly stupid right now :D
I highly doubt Ansible works on Windows and in general it is really not a good idea to host anything on Windows as it is way to insecure and also not meant for it.
If you install something on your DO VPS maybe try Yunohost: https://yunohost.org/
Yunohost is awesome. I use it myself for my Lemmy instance. Unfortunately because YunoHost doesn’t use containers and Lemmy now requires psql 15 it’s stuck on Lemmy 0.16.7. So it’s not ideal if you want the latest version of the sure to be quickly changing Lemmy software.