Hi, I follow this Multisite configuration with Docker to multisite, now I want to recover to one site, what should I do except restore the app.yml file?

I really don’t understand what you’re trying to achieve here but if you want to move one site out of the multisite setup, you can do that by downloading a backup from the multisite and restoring it on the standalone site. You may have to do some remapping based on how this standalone is set up.

I just want to keep the first site, delete the second site.

Yes, Simplest approach is to take a backup of the first site, shut down the two containers (web_only & data) which you may have used while setting up multisite, set up a new site through ./discourse-setup and then restore your backup. A more advanced solution may include removing the second site con…

Thanks! I will try the first method.

Hi, I follow your seconde method. I removed the database of the second site, and restored the app.yml config file. But I don’t know how to remove the second site assets from the shared folder, could you help me? When I upgrade discourse, I got a empty page in plugin page, and error in console: Unc…

You’ll have to share your app.yml file redacting the passwords. I would blame this on some omission or error in your app.yml file that is causing this.

## this is the all-in-one, standalone Discourse Docker container template ## ## After making changes to this file, you MUST rebuild ## /var/discourse/launcher rebuild app ## ## BE *VERY* CAREFUL WHEN EDITING! ## YAML FILES ARE SUPER SUPER SENSITIVE TO MISTAKES IN WHITESPACE OR ALIGNMENT! ## visit ht…

Looking at your previous error and the app.yml, most probably it’s the rss plugin fork that you’re using. Something may be broken in it that’s probably causing the issue. Can you try rebuilding after disabling the plugin?

@itsbhanusharma If I comment this plugin the plugin page is work. But before I upgrade discourse to latest version, the plugin work and has no problem. So I am not sure it’s due to the upgrade of discourse or the multisite. Especially, I found https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-subscriptions…

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itsbhanusharma (Bhanu Sharma) June 25, 2020, 6:24pm 13

If you made that plugin, try fixing it. If someone built it for you, try contacting them to get it fixed

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