I’ve moved to a new server and there was a miss-match in the Discourse versions (old install was saying it was up-to-date, new server install is a different version) and now I just want to delete everything and start from scratch (I have updated Discourse on the old server via git pull and taken a n…

Thanks that worked :+1: But wonder why rm- rf /var/discourse and starting all over again didn’t work - any ideas?

rm -r /var/discourse/shared/standalone not rm- rf /var/discourse Pay attention to the position of dash.

That was a typo here not on the server - it would report ‘command not found’.

How can I delete and start again?

gerhard (Gerhard Schlager) July 28, 2015, 12:54pm 2

This should delete the database and recreate the Docker container.

./launcher stop app
rm -r /var/discourse/shared/standalone
./launcher rebuild app

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