Hallo, ich habe den Adminposten in einer Community übernommen und stehe aktuell vor der Herausforderung das Forum wieder auf den neusten Stand zu bringen. Es wurde längere Zeit nicht geupdated weil das Calender-Plugin Probleme bereitet. Ich habe einen weiteren Server gemietet und möchte dort zuers…

Hi! This may be a good starting point: [image] Create, download, and restore a backup of your Discourse database Self-Hosting bookmark This guide provides step-by-step instructions for creating, downloading, and restoring a backup of your Discourse database. …

Danke für Deine Hilfe! So wie ich es verstehe sind im BackUp keine Software, also Plugins und deren Softwarestand und auch nicht Discourse selbst mit dessen Version enthalten. Somit ist das für obiges anliegen nicht geeignet. Glücklicherweise, ist aber inzwischen das Plugin welches unser Update ve…

If you’re using a provider that can clone your whole VPS, that might be a shortcut to explore: [image] Creating a duplicate of production environment I cloned my entire droplet on DigitalOcean, then logged into the droplet and disabled all of the ssl/https settings in the app.yml. This at least …

[image] ToddZ: Move a Discourse site to another VPS with rsync - Community wiki / Sysadmins But that involves rebuilding the forum, no? Then again, it just might work: [image] Backup Prod -> Snap -> Build Test -> Change Address You might be able to do a ./launcher destroy app;./launcher …

[image] NateDhaliwal: (While I’m at it, how is this topic different from the linked one?) The quoted one from myself is what I tried, and didn´t Work. Making a 1:1 with a Snap via the Provider, disabling https. I tried a lot also changing Conf. via rails but couldn´t get it to work, so the …

[image] NateDhaliwal: But that involves rebuilding the forum, no? Oof, yes, good catch. I must have been up too late. Pfaffman’s idea is interesting, though.

What problem do you think you’re solving by creating another site using the same container? I guess if that’s what you want to do then the thing to do is to build the image and launch it behind a reverse proxy for both sites. Also, there some new images that aren’t supported yet that can be launch…

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chapoi November 12, 2025, 4:00pm 2

Hi!

This may be a good starting point:

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Creating a duplicate of production environment Self-hosting	24	7810	January 24, 2021
Backup Prod -> Snap -> Build Test -> Change Address Self-hosting unsupported-install	5	169	February 5, 2026
Move Discourse to a new server without setting up the web UI first? Self-hosting	11	2838	September 3, 2022
Updating Discourse from v1.0.1 Support	13	1159	June 6, 2017
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