Lemmy: Avatar upload broken with local docker development

[Charleshthomasiii]

With local docker development, uploading an avatar makes a post request to http://localhost:8536/pictshare/api/upload.php, but the docker default pictshare port is http://localhost:8537. Not sure if I setup my environment incorrectly or how to fix.

[dessalines]

This is correct, pictshare doesn't work without nginx. This is in the instructions on the readme.

Here's a sample config: https://github.com/dessalines/lemmy/blob/master/ansible/templates/nginx.conf

[dessalines]

As an example of what I do locally I have this in the start of my lemmy.conf:

server {
        listen       8535;
        server_name  localhost;
...

So then I access it at http://localhost:8535

[Charleshthomasiii]

How do you have your ssl_certificate and ssl_certificate_key set up in your lemmy.conf?

Edit/Solved: Created self signed certificate and pointed to it in the conf.

[dessalines]

Added a disclaimer to the readme.

[Nutomic]

Fyi this would be fixed with #371.

@Charleshthomasiii you don't need any ssl certs for development.

[ma-karai]

ok this is all nice and dandy, but what if people dont use nginx as a reverseproxy, i mean there are a plenthora of different reverse proxies out there.
HAproxy, caddy, traffik to name some of them. Is there a way to disable avatar upload in general ?

[Charleshthomasiii]

I think to use a different reverse proxy you would have to edit several yml files (lemmy/ansible/lemmy.yml, lemmy/ansible/templates/docker-compose.yml,lemmy/ansible/uninstall.yml, lemmy/docker/dev/docker-compose.yml, lemmy/docker/prod/docker-compose.yml).

As for disabling avatar uploading, a quick and dirty way could be to disable it on the front end in lemmy/ui/src/components/user.tsx, although that's not a good solution.

[Nutomic]

If you are deploying manually without ansible, the only thing you need to do is write the config for your reverse proxy, based on the nginx config file. And the docker-compose.yml if you use that.

[dessalines]

There is no setting for disabling avatars site-wide, and I don't plan to make one. Its a user preference setting already.

[ma-karai]

I completely understand that you don't want to take it away on a side wide basis.