ActiveRecord::PendingMigrationError Migrations are pending. To resolve this issue, run: bin/rails db:migrate You have 269 pending migrations:

The cloud VM is if you want to host a production instance. If you want to use WSL for development, follow this guide . If you want to do it for production, then, well, it won’t be easy (and you also won’t want to run your computer 24/7).

It’s self hosted, so I’m trying to test discourse out

WSL is not a supported Production configuration (but a great choice for development)

Oh, are there other ways for windows?

Yes, but you’d be mainly on your own with limited support here. A cloud Ubuntu VPS is the recommended and supported platform. WSL makes sense if you are a wizard :mage:t3: and prepared to work out most issues on your own.

Im going to try a VM because its a little less of a pain

[תמונה] NateDhaliwal: won’t want to run your computer 24/7). Im doing it to goof around with discourse Im using a VM to do it myself, already found the ip adress (somehow) Thanks for the help, it was hard to differentiate what was for development or hosting :confused: P.S: Im slowly gettin…

Self hosting discourse with WSL shows an error, the command shown also doesnt work

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NateDhaliwal (Nate Dhaliwal) 1 בנובמבר,‏ 2025,‏ 1:24pm 2

Hi there, are you running a development or production server here? I assume it’s development?

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Self hosting discourse with WSL shows an error, the command shown also doesnt work

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