Can not visit forum.abc.com again after port change to container/app/yml

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#1

I tried my first-time installation of Discourse today. I did move forward to the typical page of “Discourse successful installation”. I did not click “register” button to finish the 14-steps initial configuration.

Instead, i opened container/app/yml and change the port from 80 to 8080 (also 443 to 8443). I rebuilt the app and the docker container Discourse is running.

When I wanted to visit forum.abc.com again, i found i can not visit it. What can i do to get the link forum.abc.com back to normal visit? Thank you all for kind attention.

#2

Why would you change the port?

Connecting to discourse on non-standard ports isn’t supported.

HTTP means port 80.
HTTPS means port 443.

To get it back to normal, restore the ports to their supported values.

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#3

Thank you Stephen for your reply. I already have installed a Wordpress website on the same server with the main domain www.abc.com.

I stoped Nignx and Apache temporarily in order to have Discourse intalled. After the Discourse installation we need to restart Nignx and Apache sevices. That is why I changed the port of Discourse (http port from 80 to 8080 and https port from 443 to 8443) after the installation.

#4

You should really be following this guide:

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