Quick disclaimer: I’m relatively new to building a VPS environment from scratch but have enough experience with web hosting (specifically shared and managed-dedi) to have an idea what I am doing and make sense of tutorials. That said, I’m currently using DigitalOcean’s cheapest droplet for experime…

Was able to come up with a solution thanks to Bobbyiliev from DigitalOcean. You can find that solution here: Discourse not loading with Apache and proxy redirect - #8 by OrbitStorm

I think this is what you’re looking for: [image] Run other websites on the same machine as Discourse Self-Hosting If you want to run other websites on the same machine as Discourse, you need to set up an extra NGINX or HAProxy proxy in front of the Docker conta…

Is this a recommendation to switch to Nginx then? I have absolutely no experience with it and any web server I’ve ever used, preconfigured included, has used Apache. There’s also this for Apache: Set up Discourse on a server with existing Apache sites However, there appears to be a large number of…

Hi @OrbitStorm Welcome! Discourse is not obstructive at all. Mastering running Dockerized Discourse behind a reverse proxy web server is a very rewarding experience; either using Apache2 or nginix. If you are already running apps behind Apache it is easy to set up one or even 100 Dockerized Disc…

Appreciate the response. I say this with the utmost respect but Discourse, out of the box, effectively requires its own server. Using a reverse proxy to run a web server parallel to Discourse on the same VPS is hit or miss, as evidenced by the comments and other complaints, and SSL may or may not w…

I honestly think it’s doable, i’m no expert and “just” follow the very good guides and tutorials here and there, I had little to no problem setting up discourse behind nginx, so I’m probably a bit lucky but I think it’s far from impossible :slightly_smiling_face: I like these : https://linuxize.co…

@Benjamin_D The issue I have is that all of the tutorials available here are missing some aspect of my current environment. There is a tutorial for Apache but using CentOS. I use Ubuntu. The other tutorial by Kane York uses Nginx but as I mentioned, I use Apache. I’m not doing anything overly compl…

@OrbitStorm Actually, Discourse is the finest forum and community building open source software on the planet at the present time (IMHO), for many reasons, here are but a few: Discourse is open source and has a strong community and very smart (and capable) core dev team. Discourse is designe…

If i understand correctly, what you want is nginx listening and redirecting one subdomain to apache on one side and one subdomain to the container where discourse is on the other side (setup by exposing the right port in the app.yml, or using the web.socketed template), or are you using apache as a …

Close but no. To reiterate, I’m on Linux + Ubuntu 18.04. I’m using Apache to serve up a standard HTML website (WordPress in the future) and have Discourse installed under a subdomain. I just need to figure out how to set up a reverse proxy (per these tutorials) that will redirect traffic from ports …

Not sure if it’s more complex to use apache as a server and a proxy than bundling nginx or HAproxy :sweat_smile: About the tutorial, CentOS or Ubuntu shouldn’t make a lot of differences, apt instead of yum , https://support.cloudflare.com/hc/en-us/articles/360029696071-Restoring-original-visitor-I…

Discourse + web server. Possible or better to avoid?

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pfaffman (Jay Pfaffman) July 12, 2020, 9:03pm 12

If you want your life to be easy then run discourse on its own droplet. You really can’t run discourse and apache on a 1gb droplet, so two 1gb droplets doesn’t even cost more.

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