Hi, i am curios to understand why this great forum software can be only installed from SSH and not with a folder upload and setup file. Thanks for the help! :slight_smile:

[image] peopleinside: This forum is not made in PHP? Hehe, I don’t think PHP is popular around here, I am sure @codinghorror et al have some strong opinions about it :smiley: Dicourse is written in a framework called Ruby on Rails, but that’s not really important. [image] peopleinside: w…

I’m not part of the core team, but your question seems to be a general one about ‘why this way of doing things’. I think the short, simple answer is it is based on Linux and the hugely successful and well proven open-source package management ecosystem. Discourse is a sum of its parts. It’s not …

TL;DR of the above :arrow_up: Discourse is complex piece of software that depends on a lot of other programs/libraries. This is not a Linux specific thing. It would like asking, why can’t I install any program on Windows by simply copying a folder. It’s a bit more complicated than that. …

Hi @danekhollas , thank you for your reply! Many thanks also to @merefield with a more complex reply that it’s more harder to understand for me. Usually, also if i manage a VPS (CentOs) so sometime need to use SSH for update OS or for some server settings, i install software like PHPBB, live help…

A last question on this topic if I can: In this wizard I do not see the setup are asking for database credentials. Why? Not need to setup a database?

That’s done as part of the script. It uses its own dedicated instance fo a PostgreSQL database.

I do not understand. No need to setup a database?

Think of it as an application rather than a website. Providing you install on a supported OS the installer handles all the components necessary to use it. Database, webserver, libraries and code are all handled by the one installer. It’s also why Discourse can’t be installed on shared hosting, whic…

When you upload files into a folder, the code is usually executed by a PHP interpreter (a program which reads your application script files and executes the code within them), which is usually (pre)installed as part of your web server suite. However, Discourse is not written in PHP. The server side…

Thank you so much for all help.

Why Discourse can be only installed from SSH?

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