Hi I’m trying to set up discourse in my local development environment with only a small difference: I’m running Postgres in docker. The database is accessible using psql from the OS, but when I tried to create the database using rake or rails, it doesn’t work. I followed these steps: cp discourse_defaults.conf discourse.conf then updated discourse.conf ... db_host = 127.0.0.1 ... db_username = postgres db_password = mysecretpassword ... but when I try to run db:create connection to server on socket "/var/run/postgresql/.s.PGSQL.5432" failed: No such file or directory Is the server running locally and accepting connections on that socket? Couldn't create 'discourse_development' database. Please check your configuration. rails aborted! ActiveRecord::NoDatabaseError: connection to server on socket "/var/run/postgresql/.s.PGSQL.5432" failed: No such file or directory Is the server running locally and accepting connections on that socket? Caused by: PG::ConnectionBad: connection to server on socket "/var/run/postgresql/.s.PGSQL.5432" failed: No such file or directory Is the server running locally and accepting connections on that socket? Tasks: TOP => db:create (See full trace by running task with --trace) I tried with .env DISCOURSE_DB_HOST=127.0.0.1 DISCOURSE_DB_USERNAME=postgres DISCOURSE_DB_PASSWORD=mysecretpassword I also tried with different IP addresses for ‘DB_HOST’, but I’m still getting the same error. Is there something that I’m missing?

I’m not certain, but I think the problem is probably that discourse is running inside a docker container, and so can’t by default access your separate postgres container. I think you need to expose the databse using this kind of configuration GitHub - discourse/discourse_docker: A Docker image for Discourse · GitHub You may also need to remove the postgres template from the app.yml file. These docs might be helpful - whilst you’re not running on a separate server everything else should be relevant. Hope this helps!

Hi @phil22 Thank you for your reploy. Discourse is not running inside a docker container, it’s running in my OS. Postgres is running inside a container, and I exposed its port to the OS -p 5432:5432.

Hi @Falco thank you for your reply. Same thing connection to server on socket "/var/run/postgresql/.s.PGSQL.5432" failed: No such file or directory Is the server running locally and accepting connections on that socket? Couldn't create 'discourse_development' database. Please check your configuration. rails aborted! ActiveRecord::NoDatabaseError: connection to server on socket "/var/run/postgresql/.s.PGSQL.5432" failed: No such file or directory Is the server running locally and accepting connections on that socket? Caused by: PG::ConnectionBad: connection to server on socket "/var/run/postgresql/.s.PGSQL.5432" failed: No such file or directory Is the server running locally and accepting connections on that socket? Tasks: TOP => db:create (See full trace by running task with --trace)

Okay, try adding this line: url: postgresql://postgres::postgres@localhost:5432/discourse_development?pool=5 instead of the port one.

Thank you @Falco I tried to add all the missing information to database.yml, and now it’s working #cat database.yml development: prepared_statements: false adapter: postgresql database: min_messages: warning port: 5432 host: localhost user: postgres password: mysecretpassword pool: 5 timeout: 5000 Does this mean that there is a problem in the loading of the configuration variables?

No it just means the the default socket takes priority of the port declaration. One way to get around that is using the url key, but you can check Rails code to see other ways.

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Falco (Falco) February 2, 2022, 4:03pm 4

That means Discourse is trying to connect via a filesystem socket and that socket doesn’t exists.

Can you try adding a port: 5432 to the config/database.yml file, under the development section?

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