Install Discourse on Ubuntu 22.04 Rumi, November 22, 2023 Prerequisites A server with Ubuntu 22.04 as OS Valid domain pointed to the servers IP address User privileges: root or non-root user with sudo privileges Step 1. Update the System Update the packages to their latest versions available after a fresh install of Ubuntu 22.04 sudo apt-get update -y &&… Continue Reading
Troubleshoot email on a new Discourse install Rumi, November 22, 2023 If you’ve just installed discourse, but email doesn’t seem to work. Unfortunately this means you can’t log in as an admin to finalize the install. Try the doctor cd /var/discourse ./discourse-doctor It will check several ways that your mail configuration might be broken, and offer advice. Try that first. Did… Continue Reading
Install Discourse on Ubuntu 20.04 Rumi, November 14, 2022 Secure the Server Turn on automatic security updates. $ sudo dpkg-reconfigure -plow unattended-upgrades Setup a firewall with ufw. $ sudo apt-get install ufw $ sudo ufw default allow outgoing $ sudo ufw default deny incoming $ sudo ufw allow 22 comment ‘SSH’ $ sudo ufw allow http comment ‘HTTP’ $ sudo… Continue Reading
Reset user password of Discourse Rumi, May 21, 2021May 21, 2021 Discourse is an excellent platform- super fast, super organized and super fresh looking. It has quite standarized and additional security options in the application UI. However, found a freat issue of updating any user of this platform as Admin (I was havign difficulties of self user password reset options, as… Continue Reading
Install Discourse Forum with Nginx on Ubuntu 16.04 Rumi, June 26, 2020 Step 1 – Install Docker on Ubuntu 16.04 The Discourse software is written in Ruby and Javascript, using PostgreSQL as the main database, and Redis as a cache and for transient data. We will install Discourse under the Docker container. The installation process will be carried out on Ubuntu… Continue Reading