Hello everyone,
I’m currently struggling to implement my goal despite using AI.
Our Discourse is running on Hetzner. The address could be forum.thisIsMyDomain.com.
There I make a backup and then a snapshot from the backup.
I have another Hetzner server for testing purposes, and I’m rebuilding it from the snapshot. The server logically has a different IP and address, e.g., dev.thisIsMyDomain.com.
How can I get the dev/test instance running?
nano /var/discourse/containers/app.yml
DISCOURSE_HOSTNAME: adjust to the new name
This doesn’t seem to be enough.
However, I absolutely do not want to perform a rebuild, but rather get a 1:1 copy running in the first step.
Has anyone gained experience with this and can give me a tip on how to proceed? Thank you all for your time.
You can try changing the hostname and doing a ‘./launcher rebuild app’`.
But since the hostname has changed, a bunch of stuff in the database also needs to be changed. The easiest way is to restore a backup. There once was a topic about how to change the hostname; I don’t see it, but I might not have looked hard enough. Or maybe it wwas deleted because it’s much easier and more reliable to restore the backup.
You might be able to do a `./launcher destroy app;./launcher start app` and then restore the backup from the command line.
Then what you’d do is push your docker image somewhere, and then use ./launcher start-cmd app to see how to start it. So you’ll need to figure out enough about docker to push the image to a private repo and start it up and then restore the backup.
I would like to mark this attempt as officially failed
I tried a lot, but it seems impossible (for me), so I’m giving up on this approach.
Just to inform everyone who might have the same idea.
If I manage to solve my problem in another way as a beginner, I’ll gladly post my working solution here.
