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

[pfaffman (Jay Pfaffman)]

@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.

@Idoru_Toei

Unfortunately, when I uncheck “website enabled”, I cannot curl 443/80 from the host,

That is expected, because you haven’t installed Discourse to be the web server.

@Idoru_Toei

and discourse setup still complains with the same error.

Then you (almost certainly) still have the issue that your VM does not have its ports exposed to the internet.

@Idoru_Toei

And as you can see in my original post, the discourse setup actually claims (initially) that 443 is available.

IT does not. It clearly states that Discourse does not have access to the port. The your curl command shows that something else has control of port 443

@Idoru_Toei

⚠ Port 443 of this computer does not appear to be accessible using hostname: metabolism.logophilia.eu 
⚠ Connection to http://metabolism.logophilia.eu (port 80) also fails. 

I think that the container built successfully but either it can’t start because something else has port 443, it’s not doing anything because port 443 is routed somewhere else.

You can try

docker ps

to see if any containers are running and

docker logs app

To see what discourse has logged via docker.