Fixing federation testing docs. Fixes #878 (#879)

* Fixing federation testing docs. Fixes #878

* Removing extra clone.

1 files changed, 27 insertions, 17 deletions

diff --git a/docs/src/contributing_federation_development.md b/docs/src/contributing_federation_development.md
index 520a6127..143ae9f8 100644
--- a/docs/src/contributing_federation_development.md
+++ b/docs/src/contributing_federation_development.md
@@ -5,14 +5,7 @@
 If you don't have a local clone of the Lemmy repo yet, just run the following command:
 
 ```bash
-git clone https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy -b federation
-```
-
-If you already have the Lemmy repo cloned, you need to add a new remote:
-```bash
-git remote add federation https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy
-git checkout federation
-git pull federation federation
+git clone https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy
 ```
 
 ## Running locally
@@ -26,18 +19,34 @@ You need to have the following packages installed, the Docker service needs to b
 
 Then run the following
 ```bash
-cd dev/federation-test
-./run-federation-test.bash
+cd docker/federation
+./run-federation-test.bash -yarn
 ```
 
-After the build is finished and the docker-compose setup is running, open [127.0.0.1:8540](http://127.0.0.1:8540) and
-[127.0.0.1:8550](http://127.0.0.1:8550) in your browser to use the test instances. You can login as admin with
-username `lemmy_alpha` and `lemmy_beta` respectively, with password `lemmy`.
+The federation test sets up 3 instances:
+
+Instance / Username | Location
+--- | ---
+lemmy_alpha | [127.0.0.1:8540](http://127.0.0.1:8540)
+lemmy_beta | [127.0.0.1:8550](http://127.0.0.1:8550)
+lemmy_gamma | [127.0.0.1:8560](http://127.0.0.1:8560)
+
+You can log into each using the instance name, and `lemmy` as the password, IE (`lemmy_alpha`, `lemmy`). 
+
+Firefox containers are a good way to test them interacting.
+
+## Integration tests
+
+To run a suite of suite of federation integration tests:
+
+```bash
+cd docker/federation-test
+./run-tests.sh
+```
 
 ## Running on a server
 
-Note that federation is currently in alpha. Only use it for testing, not on any production server, and be aware
-that you might have to wipe the instance data at one point or another.
+Note that federation is currently in alpha. **Only use it for testing**, not on any production server, and be aware that turning on federation may break your instance.
 
 Follow the normal installation instructions, either with [Ansible](administration_install_ansible.md) or
 [manually](administration_install_docker.md). Then replace the line `image: dessalines/lemmy:v0.x.x` in 
@@ -47,11 +56,12 @@ Follow the normal installation instructions, either with [Ansible](administratio
 ```
     federation: {
         enabled: true
-        allowed_instances: example.com
+        tls_enabled: true,
+        allowed_instances: example.com,
     }
 ```
 
-Afterwards, and whenver you want to update to the latest version, run these commands on the server:
+Afterwards, and whenever you want to update to the latest version, run these commands on the server:
 
 ```
 cd /lemmy/