Hi, I’m a beginner and I’d like to try installing Discourse for a project, but I’m having trouble installing Discourse in a Ubuntu 22.04 VM. I followed the tutorial at discourse/docs/INSTALL-cloud.md at main · discourse/discourse · GitHub, but after completing the steps, I don’t see anything on my web browser (I get the message “This site can’t be reached”). I opted for the Brevo solution for SMTP.

Hello; It works, I followed a youtube video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EaUIsIYivE8), I did the step done in the video and I left the line checked (#) for the https let’s encrypt part on the app.yml file.

Hi, welcome :wave: Did the build process end without errors?

Do you have your DNS pointing to the server? DId you run discourse-setup? What is the URL?

Yes, DNS pointing server (I can ping with hostname), i run and use commande ./discourse-setup and url is http://forum.crio-dauphine.dynv6.net but sometimes I get an nginx page that displays for 2 minutes.

I have an end message : , [2023-12-21T10:19:01.450496 #1] INFO -- : Terminating async processes I, [2023-12-21T10:19:01.481983 #1] INFO -- : Sending INT to HOME=/var/lib/postgresql USER=postgres exec chpst -u postgres:postgres:ssl-cert -U postgres:postgres:ssl-cert /usr/lib/postgresql/13/bin/postmaster -D /etc/postgresql/13/main pid: 56 I, [2023-12-21T10:19:01.493459 #1] INFO -- : Sending TERM to exec chpst -u redis -U redis /usr/bin/redis-server /etc/redis/redis.conf pid: 125 2023-12-21 10:19:01.493 UTC [56] LOG: received fast shutdown request 125:signal-handler (1703153941) Received SIGTERM scheduling shutdown... 125:M 21 Dec 2023 10:19:01.509 # User requested shutdown... 125:M 21 Dec 2023 10:19:01.509 * Saving the final RDB snapshot before exiting. 125:M 21 Dec 2023 10:19:01.515 * DB saved on disk 2023-12-21 10:19:01.553 UTC [56] LOG: aborting any active transactions 125:M 21 Dec 2023 10:19:01.569 # Redis is now ready to exit, bye bye... 2023-12-21 10:19:01.844 UTC [56] LOG: background worker "logical replication launcher" (PID 65) exited with exit code 1 2023-12-21 10:19:02.147 UTC [60] LOG: shutting down 2023-12-21 10:19:02.675 UTC [56] LOG: database system is shut down sha256:82b631cd7bcf53be0ac50326b816f4b538913cb8f7cefdfa9b6e183e42f0d952 27a8cacb031be6d76894e19fb488d534e1e8298abc4e2f8f38ade078653621b8 + /usr/bin/docker run --shm-size=512m -d --restart=always -e LANG=en_US.UTF-8 -e RAILS_ENV=production -e UNICORN_WORKERS=4 -e UNICORN_SIDEKIQS=1 -e RUBY_GC_HEAP_GROWTH_MAX_SLOTS=40000 -e RUBY_GC_HEAP_INIT_SLOTS=400000 -e RUBY_GC_HEAP_OLDOBJECT_LIMIT_FACTOR=1.5 -e DISCOURSE_DB_SOCKET=/var/run/postgresql -e DISCOURSE_DB_HOST= -e DISCOURSE_DB_PORT= -e LETSENCRYPT_DIR=/shared/letsencrypt -e DISCOURSE_FORCE_HTTPS=true -e LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8 -e LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8 -e DISCOURSE_HOSTNAME=forum.crio-dauphine.dynv6.net -e DISCOURSE_DEVELOPER_EMAILS=hassan.mahmood@dauphine.psl.eu -e DISCOURSE_SMTP_ADDRESS=smtp-relay.brevo.com -e DISCOURSE_SMTP_PORT=587 -e DISCOURSE_SMTP_USER_NAME=hassan.mahmood@dauphine.psl.eu -e DISCOURSE_SMTP_PASSWORD=J7YKTUfxhpZBkGaN -e DISCOURSE_SMTP_DOMAIN=forum.crio-dauphine.dynv6.net -e DISCOURSE_NOTIFICATION_EMAIL=noreply@forum.crio-dauphine.dynv6.net -e LETSENCRYPT_ACCOUNT_EMAIL=me@example.com -h forum-app -e DOCKER_HOST_IP=172.17.0.1 --name app -t -p 80:80 -p 443:443 -v /var/discourse/shared/standalone:/shared -v /var/discourse/shared/standalone/log/var-log:/var/log --mac-address 02:96:f4:e6:e7:14 local_discourse/app /sbin/boot db41dedf0fc70e0be04d202626b0203c824e0a12b9322129fc1450362f05c891

but docker conteiner is running : root@forum:/var/discourse# docker ps CONTAINER ID IMAGE COMMAND CREATED STATUS PORTS NAMES db41dedf0fc7 local_discourse/app "/sbin/boot" About a minute ago Up About a minute 0.0.0.0:80->80/tcp, :::80->80/tcp, 0.0.0.0:443->443/tcp, :::443->443/tcp app

Pinging forum.crio-dauphine.dynv6.net gives me a local address, likely one that connects to a router. :thinking:

VM ubuntu ip address is 192.168.0.115/24, i use a IP private for testing

Issue with installation in an Ubuntu 22.04 VM

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pfaffman (Jay Pfaffman) December 21, 2023, 2:20pm 9

Unless you comment out the let’s encrypt and ssl templates it will fail because there is no certificate.

And I’m not sure if it’s possible to run without https anymore.

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