So an update. It turns out that all the issues were actually to do with Postiz rather than Authentic. - I tried installing a few other apps and linking them to Authentik but I ran into a few issues. Then I took Postiz and tried turning off the Atuthentik authentication and then just getting it to work with native user accounts. This initially didn’t work - it turned out that there were a few issues.

1. The startup procedure for Poztiz actually left the backend API service not running properly. I had to run the docker compose, get all the other services running and then stop the postiz container specifically wait a bit more and then restart just that container. That got the API service running.

2. Because I was just running it internally I didn’t have SSL certificates configured and was just using http - consequently I had to introduce NOT_SECURED: “true” into the environment section of the Postiz service in the compose file and then repeat the process above. This resolved a silent error in my browser where cookies used to manage the authenticated browser session were discarded because I wasn’t using SSL.

So success at least getting Postiz running. I am now going to step back, reconfigure it for Authentic retry.

I am going to guess that these issues might be relevant if you are running Postiz behind a reverse proxy (I’m not sure if this is being done with the docker compose set-up). I possibly also need to look at how much memory and CPU I have on my test VM.

I’ve posted similar details in Postiz Discord. If anyone else is using #Postiz and would like to exchange notes - please do drop me a mention. Always good to have other people to talk to about these things and share notes.

@vincent I have it running with the docker compose file… (I edited the domain in the compose file) but well from there I am a bit lost.

@frongt This is where basic suggestions are helpful for idiots like me…

@brewery Oh cheers. Yeah I think I need to test setting up another app to confirm whether its Authentik or Postiz. The other app I am looking at is an open source core banking system so I think I’ll leave that one for a while and as you suggest try something more straight forward.

I’m keen to get Postiz working because I belong to a sailing club and its a time vacuum posting updates all over the place.

I’m interested do you you anything for social listening - I’d like to pull together a few social feeds from Twitter, Instal, Facebook and provide them to the few of us that are working on keeping the club’s profile up.

@devaly Ah ok … it looks interesting… I might need to push on with Authentik in the meantime just till I get more of an idea - It might also prove useful when I need to link to LDAP and Azure AD

@devaly Is it possible to use PocketID without Https if I am testing it internally ?

@devaly I really just went for the one that Postiz had suggested and had some template configurations for … and it seemed to be one of the most used (oh and a friend had suggested it to )

@UnfinishedProjects Oh cool. Ok. Must checkout #nodebb

@UnfinishedProjects Hve dipped out of this conversation but from the original post would something that can use federated identities be more suited …maybe hubzilla.org/page/info/home #Hubzilla

@cristian64 No idea but I found this on #fdroid f-droid.org/en/packages/hu.vmi…

What devices do you have? Check if they are suppprted by #gadgetbridge gadgetbridge.org/

@Kkk2237pl Can I suggest that you start with something simple where as much as possible is templated - im like a broken record on this but i use #yunohost simply because heaps of people are using the same config.

@Kkk2237pl Im no expert so you know take everything with a grain of salt but for me i flash all my routers with #openwrt including #tplink stuff… Butnthat gives me everything i need.

You probably do.everything with stock firmware though

@Kkk2237pl What are you using for a router? A good uptodate version of something like ooenwrt, a separate subnet running on a different vnet and firewall zone.

Why the vps?

@mietkiewski_dev I had to search to see what a #Pomodoro was … interesting - a time management technque - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pomodoro…