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Lemmy selfhost problem

Hey guys, im writing here because i'm really out of options and ideas. I have been trying to set up my lemmy instance in docker put i keep failing at the first step. I have filled every {{}} detail and still getting this error:

The Compose file './docker-compose.yml' is invalid because: Invalid top-level property "x-logging". Valid top-level sections for this Compose file are: version, services, networks, volumes, secrets, configs, and extensions starting with "x-".

You might be seeing this error because you're using the wrong Compose file version. Either specify a supported version (e.g "2.2" or "3.3") and place your service definitions under the services key, or omit the version key and place your service definitions at the root of the file to use version 1.

I have tried to edit the version number, even deleting it but then im getting this:

The Compose file './docker-compose.yml' is invalid because: Unsupported config option for x-logging: 'options' Unsupported config option for services: 'proxy'

Do you have any idea?

Edit: Thank you all for the ideas. Actually the docker compose up -d solved it!

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  • Your docker install is too old and it doesn't support that docker-compose version, you probably should update your docker to more recent one (are you running debian 10 on default repositories?), or you could remove logging references from file (these x-logging lines in each service and whole section on top of file)

    • Im using centos, everything is up to date with the latest versions.

      or you could remove logging references from file (these x-logging lines in each service and whole section on top of file)

      Im getting the same error

      • Here is my docker-compose.yml

        spoiler

        version: "3.7"

        services: proxy: image: nginx:1-alpine ports: # actual and only port facing any connection from outside # Note, change the left number if port 1236 is already in use on your system # You could use port 80 if you won't use a reverse proxy - "8536:8536" volumes: - ./nginx_internal.conf:/etc/nginx/nginx.conf:ro,Z restart: always depends_on: - pictrs - lemmy-ui

        lemmy: image: dessalines/lemmy:latest hostname: lemmy restart: always environment: - RUST_LOG="warn" volumes: - ./lemmy.hjson:/config/config.hjson:Z depends_on: - postgres - pictrs

        lemmy-ui: image: dessalines/lemmy-ui:latest environment: - LEMMY_UI_LEMMY_INTERNAL_HOST=lemmy:8536 - LEMMY_UI_LEMMY_EXTERNAL_HOST=* - LEMMY_UI_HTTPS=true volumes: - ./volumes/lemmy-ui/extra_themes:/app/extra_themes depends_on: - lemmy restart: always

        pictrs: image: asonix/pictrs:0.4.0-rc.7 # this needs to match the pictrs url in lemmy.hjson hostname: pictrs # we can set options to pictrs like this, here we set max. image size and forced format for conversion # entrypoint: /sbin/tini -- /usr/local/bin/pict-rs -p /mnt -m 4 --image-format webp environment: - PICTRS_OPENTELEMETRY_URL=http://otel:4137 - PICTRS__API_KEY=lemmy1234
        - RUST_LOG=debug - RUST_BACKTRACE=full - PICTRS__MEDIA__VIDEO_CODEC=vp9 - PICTRS__MEDIA__GIF__MAX_WIDTH=256 - PICTRS__MEDIA__GIF__MAX_HEIGHT=256 - PICTRS__MEDIA__GIF__MAX_AREA=65536 - PICTRS__MEDIA__GIF__MAX_FRAME_COUNT=400 user: 991:991 volumes: - ./volumes/pictrs:/mnt:Z restart: always deploy: resources: limits: memory: 690m

        postgres: image: postgres:15-alpine hostname: postgres environment: - POSTGRES_USER=lemmy - POSTGRES_PASSWORD=lemmy1234
        - POSTGRES_DB=lemmy volumes: - ./volumes/postgres:/var/lib/postgresql/data:Z - ./customPostgresql.conf:/etc/postgresql.conf restart: always

        postfix: image: mwader/postfix-relay environment: - POSTFIX_myhostname=lemmy.domain.com restart: "always"

  • What version of docker/docker compose are you running? You can find this by running docker version and docker compose version

    From their documentation, you need 1.24.0 or greater.

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