Hey guys! So im currently trying to setup discourse! So far everything seems fine, email is all good etcet! So when i first join my new discourse it tells me to register etc as normal, I input the admin password for the email to setup the account etc, I then get the email to activate the account …

Are you using a domain name? That’s required. How did you install?

I followed the installation guide on the GitHub page. Yes i am using a domain, But even if i do it local to the maching i get the same issue. I also tried to force activate the account which lead to a white screen when loading the website :confused:

Could it because im using my domain name as is and not using a subdomain?

This behavior usually means your https is busted or you are going through some weird proxy like CloudFlare to generate fake https.

At the moment im doing it via GoDaddy where my domain is from. All i have done is forward the Domain to the IP the forum is run on?

So i did a fresh install of dscourse… And when i use my domain the address bar shows the IP not the domain? Is that an issue with my DNS setup?

did you run ./discourse-setup? When you did, did you give it a hostname?

I have the same problem with you :cry:

You can see what ./discourse-doctor has to say. You can also share your domain name here so we could check your DNS settings.

[image] pfaffman: ./discourse-doctor Thank you very much my domain name is asiavaper.com

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Curt_Lee (Curt Lee) September 6, 2019, 8:15pm 18

My issues was down to me trying to send my domain to a none static IP (IE i was sending my domain to a home hosted PC) which ofcourse it didnt like, Switched to OVH VPS and works perfect

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