Anything else on same Digital Ocean droplet as Discourse?

[Jonathan5]

I followed the official guidance on installing Discourse and now wonder what the official Discourse position is on having other parts of a website (whether a small PHP website or 10GB of HTML/documents or anything else) on the same droplet.

Thanks.

[omarfilip]

There is an official #howto:

Run other websites on the same machine as Discourse

@pfaffman edited this heavily 2022.02.24. Blame me if it’s broken. If you want to run other websites on the same machine as Discourse, you need to set up an extra NGINX or HAProxy proxy in front of the Docker container. NOTE: This is for advanced admins This guide assumes you already have Discourse working - if you don’t, it may be hard to tell whether or not the configuration is working. You cannot use ./discourse-setup to set up Discourse if another server is using port 80 or 443. You will …

[Jonathan5]

Thanks. That page is so long I am reluctant to try anything on it