Installation

Hosting Topics about hosting Discourse, either on your own servers, in the cloud, or with specific hosting services.

Topic	Replies	Views	Activity
About the Installation category Installation	0	11382	October 10, 2014
Self hosting or not self hosting? Hosting	6	985	May 20, 2025
Missing workbox directory in public/javascript? Installation	10	469	May 20, 2025
Upgrade fail unsupported Docker Version Installation docker	9	48	May 18, 2025
Trying to install Discourse on Docker before server just testing software? Installation unsupported-install , docker	6	40	May 17, 2025
Installing Discourse using Portainer Hosting unsupported-install	6	2249	May 16, 2025
Trying to install Discourse on portainer but it's not pulling the base container Installation unsupported-install	8	1143	May 16, 2025
Discourse Container with UnixSocket for Redis? Installation	6	1864	May 12, 2025
Error when upgrading Discourse Installation	11	152	May 12, 2025
Fresh Discourse installation ERR_CONNECTION_TIMED_OUT Installation	11	1263	May 6, 2025
Private Self Hosting Question Hosting	3	73	May 1, 2025
Cannot get past bootstrapping Installation	11	61	May 1, 2025
How do I even install Discourse? Installation	20	142	May 1, 2025
Can't rebuild due to AWS SDK gem bump and new AWS Data Integrity Protections Installation	48	534	April 29, 2025
Recommendation for number of workers: cores × 2? Installation	16	137	April 29, 2025
Getting 'welcome to nginx' with no access to internet Installation	12	2490	April 26, 2025
DISCOURSE_SMTP_AUTHENTICATION no documentation? None not working Installation email	1	32	April 25, 2025
Discourse Crash due to PSQL connection issue Installation	10	362	April 22, 2025
Getting up Brevo correctly with Discourse Installation	8	63	April 21, 2025
What if set db_default_text_search_config: "pg_catalog.simple" Installation	5	1605	April 21, 2025
Update/rebuild error. How to diagnose and recover? Installation	6	250	April 19, 2025
Recommended Hosting Providers for Self Hosters Hosting This guide is intended for people who are not system administrators who just want to make Discourse work. This is a list of cloud hosting services that are believed to be reliable and easy enough for a novice to get up a…	109	29052	April 16, 2025
Migration error on fresh startup running in k8s cluster Installation unsupported-install	5	1277	April 14, 2025
High rebuild memory requirements: April 2025 edition Hosting	20	246	April 13, 2025
How to Configure Cloudflare R2 for your Discourse Community Hosting cloudflare	28	190	April 10, 2025
Discourse on Synology DSM 7.2? Installation install	0	34	April 10, 2025
Have Discourse's requirements changed recently? Installation	8	165	April 4, 2025
LC_ALL/LANG/LANGUAGE = en_US.UTF-8 correct for non-English sites? Installation	3	46	April 3, 2025
Upgrade failed: low disk space -- excess overlay files? Installation server-resources	6	579	April 3, 2025
Did I overwrite my site settings with a cross-instance backup/restore? Installation backups	4	44	May 2, 2025