The title is quite self explanatory, I was wondering if there’s any way to access the public folder in /var/www/discourse/public outside of Docker so I can easily copy files in and out to the host filesystem?

Sure, have a look in /var/discourse/shared/standalone. :slight_smile: The public folder itself is not stored there, but e.g. the compiled assets and uploaded pictures; these directories are symlinked into Discourse’s public folder. If your goal is to serve static content, do not store it in the pu…

@elberet Thanks for the quick response, if one were to want to serve some static content, then where would be the correct place for that? (some static HTML and javascript)

I don’t know how you want to serve the static HTML and Javascript. You can upload them in your Assets for site.

If you want to serve images for your Discourse site, simply upload them as attachments in any post. By default, Discourse has a restricted staff category that is ideal for this purpose. CSS and JavaScripts can be entered as customizations in the admin interface. However, these images’ URLs won’t be…

Just to check, you have Apache set up to handle long polling nicely, right? I think its design doesn’t really like long polling.

Can you kindly clarify how does we have access to such Apache file? And which URL we would get? It’s kind of weird having a VPS and not having access to a normal public folder.

Is there any way to access the public folder outside of Docker?

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elberet (Jens Maier) March 6, 2015, 12:40pm 7

Yes, we’ve been over this before…

Use the evented MPM, apply some tuning (mostly crank up AsyncRequestWorkerFactor) and you’re good to go.

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Is there any way to access the public folder outside of Docker?

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