I recently installed Discourse on my server, but I’m facing an issue during user registration. When a new user tries to create an account, they get redirected to id.discourse.com instead of completing the signup directly on my forum. I want the entire signup process to stay on my own forum. Is this happening because I didn’t configure SMTP during the initial setup? If yes, how can I connect SMTP now after installation? I am currently using Brevo for email services, so if anyone has a step-by-step guide or recommended settings for configuring Brevo with Discourse, that would be really helpful.

Try going to /u/admin-login if you have an Admin username/email and password set up. Via the rails console, IIRC it’s: SiteSetting.enable_discourse_id = false

If you didn’t setup email, you can do so by editing the details in your app.yml file by setting up DISCOURSE_SMTP_USER_NAME and DISCOURSE_SMTP_PASSWORD variables. IIRC you can disable Discourse ID completely with the enable discourse id setting. See this section for setting up email: Enter these values when prompted by ./discourse-setup per the install guide. To change the current email service, run ./discourse-setup as well (this will bring the forum offline for a few minutes while it gets rebuilt). Brevo, previously SendInBlue, GDPR — 300 email per day free SMTP server address? smtp-relay.brevo.com SMTP user name? [SMTP credentials for your domain under [SMTP-Key tab](https://app.brevo.com/settings/keys/smtp)] SMTP password? [SMTP credentials for your domain under [SMTP-Key tab](https://app.brevo.com/settings/keys/smtp)] Port: 587

I did all the above mentioned steps but the main issue remains the same. In admin Settings, I turned off the discourse ID but now when user clicks on ‘signup‘ no field is shown on the page.

I set my instance up and I guess made a mistake in the email setup but have corrected it in the app.yml and ran a rebuild but I can’t even log in with the admin account, it directs to Discourse ID. Can I disable Discourse ID in app.yml or using rake or rails c console?

Thank you Nate! The /u/admin-login worked perfectly. I thought it was just a password reset form for a second, but it is in fact a login-by-email form. It could do with some wording to indicate that.

New users redirected to id.discourse.com instead of forum signup

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NateDhaliwal (Nate Dhaliwal) February 14, 2026, 1:16pm 4

Hmm… do you have the allow new registrations setting enabled?

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