Hello everyone! :blush: I hope you’re all doing well! I have a question about Discourse: Is it possible to self-host Discourse? I’m really interested in the platform and would love to know if anyone here has experience with it. Are there any specific requirements or tips I should keep in mind? Tha…

Yes, and there’s an entire Subcategory dedicated to it!: Documentation > Self-Hosting You would want to specifically read standard install

Thank you very much for your answers! I would like to have a standalone ‘docker-compose’ file that I can launch and use discourse in our association Is that possible? I’m not a fan of running a thousand scripts in the background that I don’t know

Yes it’s possible but you’d need to write and support it yourself. Here’s a Dockerfile someone posted recently for development that might act as a starter [image] Dockerfile (Apple/M1) for launching Discourse stable branch (v3.3.3) in 2025 Development Hi…

This is unsupported, but there are efforts trying to keep up with mainline Discourse. You can search for docker compose here, or visit these two variants: Install Discourse using Docker and Docker Compose discourse · main · indiehost / libre.sh / Images · GitLab Careful though, maintaining Disco…

Thx for you’re replies! I’ve installed only the discourse/base image but the container exited with no logs [The image shows a command-line interface displaying a container named "discourse-container" in a Docker environment, which was recently exited with no processes running.] Does you know why? …

Because the base image does nothing by itself. You need to compile Discourse in it and then run it. And that is done by executing a ./launcher script outside of the image first. So you should first try to install it the official way and then think about the options. The Discourse installation proce…

Thanks for your help guys. You make it easy for beginners like me to use Discourse! Yes, but before I make Discourse available to my club, I wanted to run Discourse on the localhost and do some tests so that I can get along better with the admin interface and the command line of Discourse. If error…

[image] Robert: You would want to specifically read standard install Install Docker and just do this.

[image] Max Hammer: Does anyone know a hack on how to run this on the localhost? Yes: https://meta.discourse.org/tags/c/documentation/developer-guides/56/dev-install :slight_smile:

Or that. Although I understood that Max is interested in getting to know how it behaves in production but to test it locally before purchasing a hosting environment. For that the docker setup would be more appropriate. In order to actually fix bugs, the dev setup is the right choice.

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max.hammer (Max Hammer) January 28, 2025, 12:42pm 13

Guys thanks a lot for you’re support!

I managed to get it work with the “normal” installation with docker.

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