Hi, I’m trying to install Discourse into a VPS following the provided instructions but after doing everything they say, step by step when I try to visit the site, the server doesn’t respond. I spent the last to day trying to find out what is the problem and until now the only piece of information …

Ok! I found the problem, I had changed the A record so the subdomain was pointing to my server, what I forgot is that I had another server monitoring that subdomain ip and changing it to point to it. I just stoped the monitoring process, changed the A record again, ./launcher rebuild app and now it…

Does the domain name that you used resolve to your droplet? If not lets encrypt cannot work. You might disable (comment out with a # at the start of the line) the two lines that have to do with letsemcrypt, or start again and don’t define the let’s encrypt email address.

Unable to install Discourse following the official instructions

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pfaffman (Jay Pfaffman) January 22, 2017, 1:20pm 2

Are you trying to use let’s Encrypt?

What does your app.yml look like?

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Unable to install Discourse following the official instructions

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