Does anymore know if it is possible to install Discourse on my Synology NAS? I have tried the Package Manager Discourse Install but this is very old (version 1.2.1). So I want to install it manual via “discourse-setup”. Is this possible on a Synology NAS with docker support?

[image] chrisonline: nual via “discourse-setup”. Is this possible on a Synology NAS with docker support? Can’t you install the old version and just upgrade it?

No, we’ve had a number of support threads here on the topic. The existing Synology package is ancient and has a number of configuration pains, the maintainer appears to have abandoned it, to all intents and purposes it’s a dead-end. It’s certainly possible to install, but whether that install is su…

As far as I have found it is a package made from Synology and can’t be upgraded. And Synology haven’t upgraded this since 2 years :frowning:

OK thanks. Is it possible to install it manual via the official discourse docker image?

As I said above the supported install doesn’t work as-is. It’s not something we can help to bodge here because it creates support problems down the line. Anyone who comes up with an install or package inherits the support responsibility in the process.

OK I understand. Thanks for the infos.

I honestly do not get the obsession with spraying random software all over your “network attached storage” device.

Simple because it is not only a “network attached storage” device :wink: I run my Mail Server, Websites and so on all on the Synology NAS.

That’s a shame! I’m new here, researching forum software for a forum that we don’t want to look like a forum. If you see what I mean. At present, some of my co-conspirators are hooked on Wordpress… I’ve never really liked it, and my only interactions have left me feeling that plugins are buggy and…

You can run a normal install on Synology, but I would only use it for a test platform. It works fine on my 1515+, but it’s probably only a question of time until the docker version supported by Synology is too far behind for what Discourse needs. [image] Discourse as „local“…

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chrisonline (Christian Grasser) February 10, 2019, 6:00pm 9

Simple because it is not only a “network attached storage” device
I run my Mail Server, Websites and so on all on the Synology NAS.

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