I want to install lemmy on cpanel. The same way you install a forum. It’s easy.

Is it possible? I dont want to buy a whole server just for lemmy

  • Marxism-Fennekinism@lemmy.ml
    5·
    2 years ago

    Short answer: you can’t be because Lemmy and cPanel are based on different software architectures.

    Long answer: First, as far as I know cPanel can only deploy PHP app, which most open source forums are. Lemmy is written in Rust and is executed differently to generate a website. Second, Lemmy has its own server that connects to the web host’s server in a process called reverse proxying, and it does this by having a main “Lemmy” program constantly running as long as the site is live, just like the web server it connects to. This works very differently from PHP, where each webpage is a separate very small program that runs when the page is called, and then exits when the page render is complete.

    • lemmyfan01@lemmy.mlOP
      2·
      2 years ago

      Is there any hosts that can quick deploy lemmy?

      I ran a test mastodon instance on digital ocean.

      I want to test lemmy as well. any suggestions?

  • sub_ubi@lemmy.ml
    3·
    2 years ago

    Should be fine. You may want to follow a guide on installing docker so it doesn’t conflict with whatever firewall cpanel uses.