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	11397	October 10, 2014
Failing update Installation	26	129	August 25, 2025
SMTP settings with Fastmail? Installation	1	14	August 24, 2025
Does the mail-receiver work with arm? Installation mail-receiver , arm	14	889	August 22, 2025
Crash after last update Installation	3	32	August 20, 2025
Best practices for testing before upgrade? Hosting stable	1	29	August 19, 2025
Guide to Setting Up Discourse Development Environment - Windows 11 Installation dev-install	14	3070	August 19, 2025
Fresh install discourse 3.4.7 fail : Failed to create 'badge_posts' view Installation badges , install , postgres , unsupported-install	1	38	August 16, 2025
10-year self-hosted discourse admin asks: why not launcher cleanup as part of rebuild? Installation	14	224	August 15, 2025
How can I minimize the discourse Docker image size? Installation	6	85	August 14, 2025
Moving discourse instance to a new server Installation	6	62	August 11, 2025
Infinite loop during postgres upgrade Installation	10	977	August 18, 2025
Bootstrap error during Discourse install: ENOENT - /etc/runit/1.d/letsencrypt Installation	17	208	August 8, 2025
Migration to a Self-Hosted solution from Kubernetes Installation migrations-tooling , install	1	49	August 7, 2025
Unable to upgrade Kore Community Instance Installation	4	71	August 7, 2025
Guide to configure Discourse on Amazon Web services (AWS) EC2 Installation	3	5374	August 5, 2025
Discourse Fails to update in the Admin UI - No matter what Installation	31	220	August 5, 2025
Issues Updating/Rebuilding to Beta7 Installation	11	150	August 4, 2025
Selfhosting with Cloudflare/OPNSense/Dynamic External IP Hosting	0	19	August 4, 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…	115	29666	August 2, 2025
Archived Plugins Now Bundled into Core – Migration & Version Compatibility Questions Installation	1	35	August 1, 2025
Notes on methods for bulk posting using API Installation chinese-translation	2	456	July 31, 2025
Help me debug failed migrations PushFixTopicEmbedAuthorsJob Installation	8	71	July 30, 2025
Troubleshooting bootstrap failures in Discourse Installation	13	104	July 28, 2025
How do I find out what is causing this spike? Installation	5	58	July 28, 2025
How to Install Discourse Plugins Hosted in Private Repositories Using SSH Key? Installation	8	55	July 26, 2025
Is there a free vps or container that can run Discourse? Hosting	6	143	July 25, 2025
Bootstrap failed with exit code 128 Installation	31	211	August 24, 2025
Installing on Kubernetes Installation unsupported-install	53	24089	July 25, 2025
Cannot ./launcher rebuild app Installation	5	68	July 24, 2025