I have a couple of questions, which will hopefully point me in the right direction. I’m going around in circles in my head. Firstly: I have a well powered vps, that I’m running a number of web-apps, behind an nginx proxy, providing letsencrypt certificates. I am using docker compose to spin up what I need, and running containers on a docker-network so that I can re-use them between multiple domains (eg shared databases). I set environment variables for the different domains (vhosts), and expose the ports for the nginx proxy to work for these domains within the docker compose file. I don’t entirely understand the installation for discourse - how can I join the discourse docker container to this network, and expose the ports to the proxy? Secondly: For historical reasons I have an smf forum, which has become an elkarte forum. Elkarte is based on smf and I think the database schema is the same (if with some additions). Would the smf importer work with this database, or am I going to have to modify it based on the differences? I lack the skill set to do this quickly, so any advice would be appreciated. Any guidance that points me in the right direction would be much appreciated.

[image] tetricky: Would the smf importer work with this database, or am I going to have to modify it based on the differences? I lack the skill set to do this quickly, so any advice would be appreciated. You don’t know until you try. Here’s my info on imports: Redirecting…. It’s stuff that I need to do when doing an import, but it might give you some insights.

You might have the best luck using the socketed-nginx setup, and sharing that filesystem volume with your nginx container instead of using a docker network link.

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pfaffman (Jay Pfaffman) April 26, 2018, 1:10am 2

You don’t know until you try. Here’s my info on imports: Redirecting…. It’s stuff that I need to do when doing an import, but it might give you some insights.

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