I’ve been trying to get Discourse properly installed for the last few days. Finally caving in on figuring it out on my own (with the help of google). Started off with ServerMania. Server host kernel was 2.6x, would not install no matter what. I was told by tech support it would be impossible to load…

fresh install apt-get update wget -qO- https://get.docker.io/ | sh root@vps34714:~# docker info Containers: 0 Images: 0 Storage Driver: devicemapper Pool Name: docker-8:1-656152-pool Pool Blocksize: 65.54 kB Data file: /var/lib/docker/devicemapper/devicemapper/data Metadata file: /var/lib/…

devicemapper is not supported, you need to get aufs or btrfs going.

Absolutely for this, but this seems to be not possible with the current kernel, is this incorrect? Every attempt so far to change the kernel has resulted in a breaking of services needed for the subdomain (BIND, at a minimum is not working afterwards) to be accessible.

if you are on a kernel with no support for aufs or btrfs you are on your own private little adventure. I doubt you will get either to work on a 2.x series kernel, that is ancient.

I’ve tried this as well. Totally uninstalled docker check Changed kernel to a generic kernel (away from the default OVH kernel) check I had to tweak DNS resolution settings (What I have now is a temporary workaround, still going to be working on this) I have added these two lines to get …

Right, that’s why I gave up on ServerMania. The current kernel is 3.1x It does seem I am on my own to figure this out sigh Well if I do figure it out, will be sure to post a guide. I don’t want anyone else to go through what I’ve subjected myself to. Thanks

FWIW, my solution was to separate stacks, and ditch OVH for everything BUT a simple VPS which utilizes their amazing bandwidth/traffic at a low $2.99. That’s running our radio broadcasting stations and rss feeds. I actually run an ESXi 5.5 rig with 13 static IPs on a Xeon with 32GB at my residence.…

I currently have multiple instances of discourse on an OVH server with no problems! But unlike the procedure mentioned above, I install docker from ubuntu / debian (jessie) repositories. The package name is docker.io . Then you just clone the discourse docker repository and follow the steps in the g…

Good for you. When you say, “OVH server”, I’m guessing you mean a dedicated. Here’s what I’ve noticed. The older servers will be used for VPS classic. Discourse is out of the picture there. You need at least later versions of 3.13x to run docker, as aufs is not provided with the older kernels. Wit…

I didn’t get it, the problem is that the kernel in the VPS Cloud is too old or too recent?

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Aagat (Aagat) January 1, 2015, 10:13am 19

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