# Lemmy Instance in Docker > This is how SudoVanilla's Lemmy server is setup. Create a folder for your Lemmy instance and change over to it in your terminal: ```bash mkdir lemmy cd lemmy ``` Add the files below in this Gist to the folder. Then create the pictrs volume and set it's permissiosn: ```bash mkdir volumes/pictrs chown -R 991:991 volumes/pictrs ``` Then start your Lemmy instance, using the compose command: ```bash docker compose up ``` Please wait at least 2 - 5 minutes, going to your instance's URL may show an error message if you look too soon. This is because the database is still starting up, this is the case for when you startup the instance again in the future too. Once the instance is done booting and the database is finished starting up, go to your instance and login to your admin user to confirm setup is complete. The URL with this setup is at [`http://localhost:3080`](http://localhost:3080).

services: nginx_lemmy: image: nginx:mainline-alpine restart: always ports: - 3080:80 depends_on: - lemmy volumes: - ./nginx.conf:/etc/nginx/nginx.conf:ro lemmy: image: dessalines/lemmy:0.19.8 restart: always environment: - RUST_LOG="warn,lemmy_server=info,lemmy_api=info,lemmy_api_common=info,lemmy_api_crud=info,lemmy_apub=info,lemmy_db_queries=info,lemmy_db_schema=info,lemmy_db_views=info,lemmy_db_views_actor=info,lemmy_db_views_moderator=info,lemmy_routes=info,lemmy_utils=info,lemmy_websocket=info" volumes: - ./lemmy.hjson:/config/config.hjson depends_on: - postgres - pictrs lemmy-ui: image: dessalines/lemmy-ui:0.19.8 restart: always environment: - LEMMY_UI_LEMMY_INTERNAL_HOST=lemmy:8536 - LEMMY_UI_LEMMY_EXTERNAL_HOST=lemmy - LEMMY_UI_HTTPS=true volumes: - ./volumes/lemmy-ui/extra_themes:/app/extra_themes depends_on: - lemmy postgres: image: postgres:15-alpine environment: - POSTGRES_USER=lemmy - POSTGRES_PASSWORD=PASSWORD_HERE - POSTGRES_DB=lemmy volumes: - ./volumes/postgres:/var/lib/postgresql/data restart: always pictrs: image: asonix/pictrs:latest user: 991:991 volumes: - ./volumes/pictrs:/mnt restart: always mem_limit: 200m

{ setup: { admin_username: "Admin_Username" admin_password: "SUPER_SECURE_PASSWORD_HERE" site_name: "A selfhosted place" } hostname: "lemmy.example.org" bind: "0.0.0.0" port: 8536 tls_enabled: true pictrs: { url: "http://pictrs:8080/" api_key: "API_KEY_HERE" } database: { host: postgres port: 5432 pool_size: 5 uri: "postgresql://lemmy:PASSWORD_HERE@postgres/lemmy" } email: { smtp_server: "smtp.resend.com:587" smtp_login: "resend" smtp_password: "PASSWORD_HERE" smtp_from_address: "no-reply@example.org" tls_type: "starttls" } }

worker_processes 1; events { worker_connections 1024; } http { upstream lemmy { server "lemmy:8536"; } upstream lemmy-ui { server "lemmy-ui:1234"; } server { listen 80; server_name localhost; server_tokens off; gzip on; gzip_types text/css application/javascript image/svg+xml; gzip_vary on; client_max_body_size 20M; add_header X-Frame-Options SAMEORIGIN; add_header X-Content-Type-Options nosniff; add_header X-XSS-Protection "1; mode=block"; location / { set $proxpass "http://lemmy-ui"; if ($http_accept = "application/activity+json") { set $proxpass "http://lemmy"; } if ($http_accept = "application/ld+json; profile=\"https://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams\"") { set $proxpass "http://lemmy"; } if ($request_method = POST) { set $proxpass "http://lemmy"; } proxy_pass $proxpass; rewrite ^(.+)/+$ $1 permanent; proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr; proxy_set_header Host $host; proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for; } location ~ ^/(api|pictrs|feeds|nodeinfo|.well-known) { proxy_pass "http://lemmy"; proxy_http_version 1.1; proxy_set_header Upgrade $http_upgrade; proxy_set_header Connection "upgrade"; proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr; proxy_set_header Host $host; proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for; } } }