I get the following errors if I follow the tutorial to the letter (skipping letsencrypt) on Mac OS Sierra after running ./discourse-setup Any idea what can cause this? DISCOURSE_SMTP_PORT change failed. DISCOURSE_SMTP_USER_NAME change failed. DISCOURSE_SMTP_PASSWORD change failed. web.ssl.template…

The intention around easy setup is very specifically for easing cloud based installs, not for local dev on a mac. I would use docker for local dev in this way https://github.com/discourse/discourse/tree/master/bin/docker

Do you have a let’s encrypt account? If you have added the email, make sure you have uncommented the let’s encrypt lines.

I do not have a let’s encrypt account; I have skipped the appropriate steps in the tutorial. Is letsencrypt now a requirement? If so, I think the discourse-setup script should be changed to make that explicit.

My guess is that there is some compatibility with Mac sed. Sorry about that. It has nothing to do with let’s encrypt. The problem is that sed isn’t doing the replacements that it’s trying to do. Your best bet is to edit app.yml with vim or nano.

Aha, that one looks a lot better indeed. I’ll try later today, thanks. Can I suggest Discourse make an install overview page? Something that explains the different ways of installing. Hopefully that will actually end up in google if you search for Discourse install :slight_smile: Currently I find: …

I’m using the link above to run discourse on my Mac. Can anyone explain how can I connect to the postgresql server running inside docker? I’ve tried to map the port 5432 but weren’t able to connect using pgadmin. Thanks in advance

Hi @Bas , sorry for not being clear. I’m using the local docker setup for dev suggested by @sam . Thanks

I’ve just found the answer in the following post You need to do this: Enter the container. su - postgres psql -d postgres -c "ALTER USER postgres WITH PASSWORD '<new password>';" By default, PostgreSQL uses peer authentication for local connections. It uses a feature of Linux whereby it can get …

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Bas (Bas van Leeuwen) January 19, 2018, 9:21am 8

Don’t use this setup for mac; that was kind of the conclusion of the thread :-/

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