Following the example from Discourse-doctor 👩⚕️, I’ve created discourse-doctor, now included in discourse_docker. If you run ./discourse-doctor, you’ll see something like:
DISCOURSE DOCTOR Tue Jul 24 08:50:32 UTC 2018
OS: Linux twonames 4.4.0-130-generic #156-Ubuntu SMP Thu Jun 14 08:53:28 UTC 2018 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
Found containers/app.yml
==================== YML SETTINGS ====================
DISCOURSE_HOSTNAME=twonames.ltcmp.net
SMTP_ADDRESS=mail.domain.com
DEVELOPER_EMAILS=REDACTED
SMTP_PASSWORD=REDACTED
SMTP_PORT=587
SMTP_USER_NAME=postmaster@cakeme.ltcmp.net
LETSENCRYPT_ACCOUNT_EMAIL=REDACTED
==================== DOCKER INFO ====================
DOCKER VERSION: Docker version 18.05.0-ce, build f150324
DOCKER PROCESSES (docker ps -a)
CONTAINER ID IMAGE COMMAND CREATED STATUS PORTS NAMES
c75f29870c3b local_discourse/app "/sbin/boot" 5 days ago Up 5 days 0.0.0.0:80->80/tcp, 0.0.0.0:443->443/tcp app
adc8de3e5156 discourse/base:2.0.20180613 "/bin/bash -c 'cd /p…" 5 days ago Exited (137) 5 days ago quirky_zhukovsky
Discourse container app is running
==================== PLUGINS ====================
- git clone https://github.com/discourse/docker_manager.git
No non-official plugins detected.
See https://github.com/discourse/discourse/blob/master/lib/plugin/metadata.rb for the official list.
========================================
Discourse version at twonames.ltcmp.net: Discourse 2.1.0.beta2
Discourse version at localhost: Discourse 2.1.0.beta2
==================== MEMORY INFORMATION ====================
OS: Linux
RAM (MB): 1016
total used free shared buff/cache available
Mem: 992 577 69 28 345 184
Swap: 2047 301 1746
==================== DISK SPACE CHECK ====================
---------- OS Disk Space ----------
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/vda1 25G 12G 13G 48% /
---------- Container Disk Space ----------
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
overlay 25G 12G 13G 48% /
/dev/vda1 25G 12G 13G 48% /shared
/dev/vda1 25G 12G 13G 48% /var/log
==================== DISK INFORMATION ====================
Disk /dev/vda: 25 GiB, 26843545600 bytes, 52428800 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disklabel type: gpt
Disk identifier: 603625F3-7AE2-40CB-B05E-0BD7EA2D57E4
Device Start End Sectors Size Type
/dev/vda1 227328 52428766 52201439 24.9G Linux filesystem
/dev/vda14 2048 10239 8192 4M BIOS boot
/dev/vda15 10240 227327 217088 106M Microsoft basic data
Partition table entries are not in disk order.
==================== END DISK INFORMATION ====================
==================== MAIL TEST ====================
For a robust test, get an address from http://www.mail-tester.com/
Mail test skipped.
==================== DONE! ====================
The output of this program may be available at http://twonames.ltcmp.net/YzUwYjE5MzlmN2EyZTAz.txt
You should inspect that file carefully before sharing the URL.
You can examine the output of this script with
LESS=-Ri less /tmp/discourse-debug.txt
BUT FIRST, make sure that you know the first three commands below!!!
Commands to know when viewing the file with the above command (called 'less'):
q -- quit
/error<ENTER> -- search for the word 'error'
n -- search for the next occurrence
g -- go to the beginning of the file
f -- go forward a page
b -- go back a page
G -- go to the end of the file
If the container isn’t running, discourse-doctor will attempt a rebuild and add the output of the build to the log file, which, if the container cranks up enough to have nginx, will be accessible via a URL, saving folks the trouble of uploading to something like pastebin. Passwords and email addresses are redacted by the script. Domain names are left intact, as there is rarely reason to hide your site given that it’s on the Internet already.
Right now, you have to know that discourse-doctor exists, but in the next few days, I’ll submit a PR to have launcher and discourse-setup recommend it.
Next Steps
- have launcher recommend
discourse-doctor - have discourse-setup recommend
discourse-doctor - make the mail test rake task do some actual testing rather than just sending , like . . .
– test connectivity to the port
– does password work
– SPF, DKIM, dmarc
– tell them they can’t use gmail (should also add this todiscourse-setup)
– tell them what email address is in the from: line - have
launcherdisallow mixed case domain names - if rebuild rails, re-start old container – this is both trivial and huge, as I think few people know that if the rebulid fails you can just restart the container.
- (tentative) do some kind of yml linting. It looks like
launcherdoes some kind ofyamlparsing inhost_run. But part of me says “You break it. You bought it.” - consider handling files other than
app.yml - have the doctor comment out plugins not from discourse github organization
If you have comments or suggestions, please let me know!
Luckily I am only using the machine for learning at present so no harm. Maybe there should be a question asking the user if they want something that significant before proceeding.
