Configuration

The configuration is based on the file config.hjson, which is located by default at config/config.hjson. To change the default location, you can set the environment variable LEMMY_CONFIG_LOCATION.

Additional environment variable are available:

• LEMMY_DATABASE_URL, which can be used with a PostgreSQL connection string like postgres://lemmy:password@lemmy_db:5432/lemmy, passing all connection details at once,
• LEMMY_SMTP_PASSWORD, which can be used to set the password to authenticate with the SMTP server.

Those environment variables will override values if specified in the config file.

If the Docker container is not used, manually create the database specified above by running the following commands:

cd server
./db-init.sh

Full config with default values

{{#include ../../include/config/defaults.hjson}}

Lemmy-UI configuration

Lemmy-UI can be configured using environment variables, detailed in its README.