I just attempted to upgrade my Discourse installation to the latest beta (2.4.0 beta 11) via the web update and now it is inaccessible (try for yourself, returns HTTP 500 errors). Context My installed version was still 2.4.0 beta 6, I was trying to upgrade to 2.4.0 beta 11. I think I had a fairly …

With help form this topic I found that backups are stored in /var/discourse/shared/standalone/backups/default in my case. My current assumption is that I can simply copy out one of the .tar.gz files in there, roll back the Droplet, and put the backup file back at the same place so Discourse will f…

Thanks a lot, that worked! Much easier than going through all the backups-restore steps! :slight_smile:

How to recover my broken (not web-accessible) Discourse installation after failed upgrade

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pfaffman (Jay Pfaffman) February 16, 2020, 10:20pm 3

cd /var/discourse
./launcher rebuild app

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How to recover my broken (not web-accessible) Discourse installation after failed upgrade

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