Missing font icon on new dev installation

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BabylonZeus installed Discourse v2.2.0.beta9 via Docker on Ubuntu 18 inside VirtualBox on Windows 10, setting DISCOURSE_HOSTNAME to localhost:8080 with a port redirection from guest 8080 to host 80 for browser access. They encountered missing Font Awesome icons across the site (except uploaded avatars), suspecting a configuration issue. zogstrip advised removing the redirection and setting the port to 8080 via Rails console using SiteSetting.port = 8080. BabylonZeus confirmed they’re new to Ruby and planned to test directly in the guest browser first. After testing, BabylonZeus confirmed the issue was caused by the host-guest port redirection interfering with font loading — resolving it by accessing Discourse directly via localhost in the guest OS. They thanked zogstrip for the solution.

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Hi all.

I am discovering Discourse.
I have just installed it (v2.2.0.beta9 +83), for testing purpose for now.
I used the 30mn quick installation through docker, with the standalone sample.

I couldn’t set the email smtp right, but I could find help to activate my account in the database (update email_tokens set confirmed=true where email=‘myemail’) and I could log then. I am precising this just in case it were linked to my actual issue.

I could setup the wizard, and chose the light blue theme proposed by default. No plugin, extension, customization at all : I just try to install and test discourse.

The problem is : I have no icon at all in all the website, except for the personal icons I have uploaded during the wizard.

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If it can be of help :

  • My computer is on Windows 10
  • I have a VirtualBox installed with Ubuntu 18
  • Docker and Discourse are installed in this Ubuntu
  • Because the DISCOURSE_HOSTNAME is mandatory during the setup, I have set it to localhost:8080
  • I have a redirection of the Ubuntu guest 8080 towards the Windows host 80 so that I can test in my host Chrome browser

I could use some help because the website is quite ugly without all the font awesome icons!

Thanks

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Remove the redirection and set the port to 8080 in the rails console.

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Ok thank you Régis, I will first pass to “localhost” only and test in the guest browser to check if it can solve this font issue. If yes, I will see how to :

  • connect to rails console (seems to be rails c)
  • change the port
    PS : I’m a developer from the nodejs ans scala worlds, it is my first time on a ruby environment :slight_smile:
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Yup, the rails console is rails c and you can set the port with SiteSetting.port = 8080 (Discourse specific).

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That’s it, it was the redirection between host and guest which cut the fonts.
Thank you very much Régis ! :slight_smile: