I am trying to setup Discourse with one-click installer using droplet over Digital Ocean. I followed all the instructions and have correctly configured the SMTP details. But when I register for the admin account using the front-end installer, I am not able to receive the email. I read a tutorial wh…

When the colon appears, press q to get back to a prompt, and type the next command.

Activating admin account from console

deltamotion (Geoff Richards) March 26, 2019, 7:20pm 5

This worked great! Note that the rails c is not necessary for running the rake commands.

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