How to work with discourse?

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A discussion is taking place on how to work with Discourse, specifically after using DigitalOcean’s One-Click install. akhil installed Discourse but when trying to make changes, was prompted to re-install. cpradio advised pressing CTR L+C to exit the installation process and access the shell. akhil had previously attempted to bypass the installation process by pressing enter without providing values, which may have caused issues. cpradio suggested checking the app.yml file to see if any values were blanked out, which could indicate a problem.

1

Hi,

I just installed and configured discourse.

Now I need to make some changes in

But, when I connect with the server, it keeps on asking me to install!!!

Thanks for using the DigitalOcean Discourse Application Image.
To get started, the following configuration details will be required.

- Email Address for the Discourse Admin Account
- The hostname (domain or subdomain) you will use for Discourse
- Details for the SMTP server your Discourse install will use to send email

Please press enter when you are read to configure discourse.

I don’t want to re-install. I just want to make some changes like, removing one admin etc.

Please guide me how this works?

Thanks.

2

Ah, you used Digital Ocean’s One-Click install, just press CTRL+C to get out of that process and into the shell.

3

Thank you. I will have a try.

Before getting your reply, I clicked few enters (without giving values to admin email, smtp etc) to get into shell. Does this will make any problem? I just exit without doing anything and posted topic here.

My fear is, if this blank data is stored on the server, and the next time I rebuild, that will make issues…

I’m I correct? Please advise.

Thanks.

4

I don’t know if that resulted in a problem or not. After using CTRL + C, open the app.yml

nano /var/discourse/containers/app.yml

Check to see if the values have been blanked out, if they did, yeah, pressing enter caused an issue. Otherwise, you should still be okay.