I’m installing Discourse (ditnami-discourse) within a very restricted environment. The VM has no access to github, for instance. The mechanism bitnami-discourse uses for plugin installation is: RAILS_ENV=production bundle exec rake plugin:install repo=https://github_repo_url RAILS_ENV=production bu…

Thank you @Falco ! I’ve got it working on a very restricted RHEL VM and a Ubuntu 18.04 VM with access to everything (for generating the image), using the supported installation method ( discourse/docs/INSTALL-cloud.md at main · discourse/discourse · GitHub ). The missing /sbin/boot command was what cau…

[image] Bram_van_Oploo: I’m installing Discourse (bitnami-discourse) within a very restricted environment. That’s why it’s not supported here. You can ask the good folks at Bitnami for help. People here will be glad to help if you follow discourse/docs/INSTALL-cloud.md at main · discourse/dis…

Thank you for your response. I could have asked the exact same question if I was using the officially supported method. The installation method is not the issue. A way to install plugins without direct access to github is. Edit: I might decide to use the official method in a later stage anyway. In…

[image] Bram_van_Oploo: A way to install plugins without direct access to github is. You just need to put a folder containing the plugin code in the plugins folder. The yaml hook gives you full bash power so you can: wget a tarball with plugin code rsync from somewhere with plugin code scp …

The github plugin repo clones are already in place within the plugins directory. They just aren’t picked up by the assets:precompile hook. I need an alternative way of running plugin:install, because I can’t provide a working repo url ( github.com is blocked). Edit: the machine doesn’t have access t…

[image] Bram_van_Oploo: plugin:install plugin:install is not a thing for official Discourse. The only official way to install plugins is the one we describe on every approved :tm: install app.yml, and that has 0 problems with ordering of the precompile assets task.

Ok. So if I use the official installation method, I can just place (rsync) git clones of the plugins into the /plugins directory, run assets:precompile, and the plugins will be installed? If that is the case I will try and find a way to use the supported method (which won’t be easy because of all th…

If you use the official way, there will be no need to manually run assets:precompile. Just install the plugins in the same place the default plugin is installed and follow along. [image] Bram_van_Oploo: As I’ve said. I can’t access (or install) any git repositories on the VM. As said above …

Thank you for your support. I’ve created a bootstrapped image on a different machine (that does have access to github). I’ve pushed that image to our local Docker registry and pulled the image on the machine that can’t access github. When I try to run the image I still get the following error and th…

[image] Bram_van_Oploo: I try to run the image I still get the following error How exactly are you trying to run the image?

docker run docker-registry.local/discourse/my-bootstrapped-image

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Falco (Falco) March 18, 2019, 4:14pm 10

How exactly are you trying to run the image?

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