I initially installed Discourse on a small server with limited storage capacity and now I’m running out of space. Long term, I will end up moving to a new server. Short term, is it possible to relocate my current storage to a file server? It’s on the same local network as the Discourse server.

This should do it: [תמונה] Change Discourse install storage location Self-Hosting Need to move your Discourse install to another (local) directory? Let’s get started! Configure new directory Ensure the new directory is properly mounted/connected as needed. Then create the folder where Discourse will live. cd /new/discourse/location mkdir -p shared/standalone Copy existing files to new location warning From this point forward your site will be down. Stop the container to ensure no changes to the files are made during the transfer. cd /var/discourse ./launcher stop a…

Sure @jomaxro can maybe point you to a relevant howto, if we do not have one, we should.

We don’t appear to have a specific #howto for this, but it should be fairly simple (just moving the data to a new location and changing two lines in the app.yml). I’m going to do some testing and then I’ll write this up.

Thank you. That would be great!

Change Storage Location

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jomaxro (Joshua Rosenfeld) 23 במאי,‏ 2018,‏ 2:28pm 6

This should do it:

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