I changed the URL of my discourse site, and promptly members started complaining that they could not log in. Exactly the problem reported in Changing domain names prevents Discourse ID from working . Looks like the fix is to empty the credentials via the rails console. I thought the Regenerate crede…

[afbeelding] tobiaseigen: My feeling is that Discourse ID should auto correct itself in some way. Or at least there should be a way to refresh Discourse ID via the admin UI. In our hosting, this is handled automatically. In self-hosted sites, it’s running into the issue you described. There i…

I don’t recall seeing any issues in the admin dashboard, but then I didn’t watch out for it either. Can you add a button next to “Regenerate credentials” to delete the credentials? Or a JIT popup when disabling Discourse ID to ask if you want to delete the credentials? Either of those would have he…

Will have a look at this shortly. My first instinct is not to add another button, it can be confusing when browsing these pages in normal times (i.e. outside of domain changes). But maybe disabling ID should clear the credentials upstream anyway. No harm in that, potentially, since re-enabling would…

[afbeelding] pmusaraj: re-enabling would create new credentials. That’s true! Immediately after toggling on/off I went to test it, and it worked.

Can't regenerate Discourse ID credentials after changing domain name

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tobiaseigen (Tobias Eigen) 3 juli 2026 om 13:58 6

That’s true! Immediately after toggling on/off I went to test it, and it worked.

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Can't regenerate Discourse ID credentials after changing domain name

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