Can Discourse ship frequent Docker images that do not need to be bootstrapped?

[fefrei (Felix Freiberger)]

@chamunks

When you try ./discourse-setup and have port 80 and 443 the installer script links you to a tutorial on this forum that doesn’t apply to servers that are already running something on port 80/443. This is what the discourse-setup script links you to but it doesn’t actually fix the problem because I don’t want to tear down my web services on 443/80 just to run the installer.

I fail to see how docker-compose would solve that problem – it won’t magically allow two processes to bind to the same port. Either way, you will need to set up a proxy that can route incoming requests.

The #howto could certainly benefit from a section on how to proceed if Discourse is not already set up, but I currently don’t have the time to describe that properly. A short version boils down to this:

• Follow normal instructions, stopping just before executing discourse-setup.
• Copy /var/discourse/samples/standalone.yml to /var/discourse/containers/app.yml.
• Fill in the necessary settings in /var/discourse/containers/app.yml. Be careful, you cannot test this yet!
• Then continue with the howto, beginning with installing Nginx.