I am attempting to export a Category from an up-to-date Discourse Docker deployment (v1.6.0.beta1 +14) on Digital Ocean, using the command line tool kindly documented by @neil in this thread I’m following these steps: I ssh into the DO Droplet cd /var/discourse execute ./launcher enter app to ent…

Woop! thanks @zogstrip . That works. I did scour Meta for a solution, and also had a look at the source for the /scripts/discourse but I didn’t see anywhere it said about using the discourse command like that, without bundle exec. That would appear to have solved my problem, but I would say the dis…

I’ve now had chance to test the ‘round trip’ of exporting a Category from one Discourse instance and importing it into a different one. Using @zogstrip ’s advice above this worked perfectly. ##on the ‘source’ instance: cd /var/discourse launcher enter app discourse export_category [category_number]…

Category/Topic export fails with error "database "discourse_development" does not exist"

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zogstrip April 21, 2016, 3:38pm 2

Can you try this?

cd /var/discourse
./launcher enter app
discourse export_category 15

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Category/Topic export fails with error "database "discourse_development" does not exist"

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