Good morning! I am trying to setup Discourse on a fresh Hetzner Ubuntu system. When I initiate the installation via wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/discourse/discourse_docker/main/install-discourse I basically receive a 404 Not Found. [image] Any ideas? Thank you in advance!! Best, Da…

That doesn’t look like the install command. From the docs: wget -qO- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/discourse/discourse_docker/main/install-discourse | sudo bash

It is. -qO- only mutes all status-feedback in the console, so I removed it in order to get the actual error message. Otherwise the command would simply do nothing w/o any feedback. Edit: But since the URL resolves just fine in a browser I think it is an issue on my end.. simply can’t figure out wha…

I see. Do you have any firewall in place?

No, nothing yet. I wanted to finish the install to make sure nothing is interfering.

You are a genius!! For some reason copy resulted in various errors (e.g. ; instead of : in the url) and I have missed that one!

It worked. At least I did not receive any error messages. But isn`t there a wizard supposed to start afterwards? All I get is this: [Screenshot 2026-02-27 at 11.08.26] Or am I supposed to continue web based once my subdomain DNS is active?

I’m no wget expert, but is it because -qO- is absent?

[image] NateDhaliwal: -qO- Hmmm.. from my understanding all It does is suppressing any console-status feedback. But I will try the command exactly as mentioned in the guide, too. Update: I stand corrected. It indeed works with -q0- added. I learn something new every day :slight_smile:

@danvanmoll I will need to check, but I think there’s more stuff shown after this? [image] danvanmoll: [Screenshot 2026-02-27 at 11.08.26]

The installation seems to run as intended with the complete command line. Still baffled but it was a me-issue all the time :slight_smile:

404 Not Found during initial installation via console

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NateDhaliwal (Nate Dhaliwal) February 27, 2026, 10:03am 6

From your screenshot, you seem to have written discourse-docker instead of discourse_docker.

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