Hi, I get the error in the subject (see also below) after getting “✓ Ports 80 and 443 are free for use” during init. DNS is set up, SSl configured, website running from outside (test for yourself), curl output (truncated) added below, i.e. accessible from the box itself. I’m out of ideas what’s miss…

Thanks for the feedback, really appreciate the time. Not to be that smartass, but: [2/5] Preparing configuration ✓ Ports 80 and 443 are free for use It does initially say “free for use”. That said, I have my instance up and running now, with the help of Gemini (mostly about docker usage of all t…

Hi there, I checked your website myself. It looks like your hosting provider is snagging port 443 to display this welcome page. You will need to find out how to entirely free port 443/80 so Discourse can control it. [image]

I already did that, the VPS is managed with Virtualmin, and it’s just a checkmark. Unfortunately, when I uncheck “website enabled”, I cannot curl 443/80 from the host, and discourse setup still complains with the same error. So I thought I enable the website again, so that at least I can show that t…

[image] Idoru_Toei: and discourse setup still complains with the same error I had the same problem here (on my own server at home): [image] SKIP_CONNECTION_TEST does not work on install-discourse script Self-hosting I’ve tried basically everything I can…

Thank you, that seemed to have done it! :purple_heart: The script is beyond 5/5 now, and uploading / installing a lot of additional things it seems. The SSL certificate is now wrong, I guess it’s waiting for either the TTL timeout or maybe it’l be ok once setup is finished. While I have seriously …

I see it’s already marked as solution. But I have one more question, if I may. I know Postgres is needed, but it is not mentioned at https://github.com/discourse/discourse/blob/main/docs/INSTALL-cloud.md So I thought the docker image comes with Postgres installed. Could you please clarify if I ne…

[image] Idoru_Toei: So I thought the docker image comes with Postgres installed. Could you please clarify if I need to install Postgres on the VPS? Do not install postgres. [image] Idoru_Toei: Unfortunately, when I uncheck “website enabled”, I cannot curl 443/80 from the host, That is…

I needed to turn off my Nginx server prior to the installation. Good to see there is a flag to skip this test, though :slight_smile:

⚠ Port 443 of this computer does not appear to be accessible using hostname: metabolism.logophilia.eu ----

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darkpixlz (Pyx ) June 6, 2026, 4:06am 4

I had the same problem here (on my own server at home):

I believe the fix is to just do this if you are 100% sure that the DNS is correct and your ports work correctly.

./install-discourse --skip-connection-test

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⚠ Port 443 of this computer does not appear to be accessible using hostname: metabolism.logophilia.eu ----

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