Is it just me or is all of the documentation either out of date or not accurate? For instance, yet another hurdle with this software is getting a basic API query to work. Here’s the docs I’m referring to and the query that returns a 500 error: http://localhost:4200/categories.json . The GET request i…

This works: https://meta.discourse.org/categories.json What error do you see in the logs? Does your site work in a browser? If GETting /categories.json` doesn’t work then something’s wrong with your development environment, I’d guess. We’ll need more info about what errors you see in the terminal …

Not trying to do anything special just call the API as it’s written in the docs via postman.

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pfaffman (Jay Pfaffman) August 1, 2025, 9:01pm 4

Can you load the page in your browser?

My guess is that it’s a problem with postman

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