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: [afbeelding] 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…

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 mei 2018 om 14:28 6

This should do it:

Topic		Antwoorden	Weergaven
Change Discourse install storage location Self-Hosting how-to	0	4714	23 mei 2018
How to change the install default directory /var to other directory? Self-hosting	3	465	14 januari 2024
Moving discourse instance to a new server Self-hosting	6	222	11 augustus 2025
How to change installation path? Self-hosting unsupported-install	1	324	5 maart 2024
How Do I transfer Discourse between servers? Support	1	465	3 oktober 2023

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