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Discourse

This is a purely optional guide and serves only for reference. Please have a look at the official discourse documentation.

Install Docker

Not necessarily for SeAT-Docker Installations

If you are running a dockerized SeAT Instance you do not need to do this step

wget -qO- https://get.docker.io/ | sh

Install Discourse

Download Discourse

mkdir /opt/discourse
git clone https://github.com/discourse/discourse_docker.git /opt/discourse

Configure

Copy the sample configuration into the /containers folder 

cd /opt/discourse
cp samples/standalone.yml containers/app.yml

then edit the app.yml with a text editor (nano, vi, etc.)

nano containers/app.yml

Change the following:

Warning

Warning Discourse will not work from an IP address, you must own a domain name such as example.com to proceed.

  • DISCOURSE_HOSTNAME should be discourse.example.com or something similar.

Warning

Email is CRITICAL for account creation and notifications in Discourse. If you do not properly configure email before bootstrapping YOU WILL HAVE A BROKEN SITE!

  • DISCOURSE_DEVELOPER_EMAILS should be a list of admin account email addresses separated by commas.
  • DISCOURSE_SMTP_ADDRESS
  • DISCOURSE_SMTP_USER_NAME
  • DISCOURSE_SMTP_PASSWORD

Hint

No existing mail server? Checkout discourse's Recommended Email Providers for Discourse

Build and launch

./launcher bootstrap app
./launcher start app

Success

Your discourse instance is now available at discourse.example.com

Hint

After every change to the app.yml you need to rebuild your discourse application: ./launcher rebuild app