Hi-
I have Discourse set up on Docker. I can send the activation email and I receive it fine. The link takes me to my site but the site url is broken. It’s configured to be: discourse.yciw.net
Digital Ocean says the domain is active.
I’m able to access the site via the IP address but of course I cannot activate the initial Admin account.
IP is:
http://104.131.117.143
Please help!
Mat
Actually, can you confirm if I’ve done something totally dumb?
I configured Discourse to be at discourse.yciw.COM. I also set up my Droplet to be discourse.yciw.COM.
However, I do not own the domain yciw.COM. I own the domain yciw.NET
Should I have set both the Droplet and Discourse to be for yciw.NET?
thank you
Matt
Yes, use .net in both DO and Discourse. Once you do it rebuild the image.
Thanks! Do you happen to know if there is a way to edit my Droplet URL on Digital Ocean or do I need to delete it somehow and create a new one. Which I think would give me a different IP address and I’d have to start the whole process over…
(I’ve submitted a ticket with them but I’m waiting to hear back)
You can rename a droplet on DO, just go to the Settings for your droplet, and then the Rename tab. This won’t affect anything on the box, but it will update the PTR record.
You’ll need to rebuild your Discourse instance after editing the configuration file too.
Thank you. I made the name change on DO and then rebuilt the Discourse instance after editing it to reflect the correct URL.
I now get a page not found error.
As you say the name change is only for show. Do I need to change the name on a deeper level in DO somehow?
thank you!
Have you set up the CNAME/A record in your registrar?
I’m not sure what that is so I don’t think I have…
Digital Ocean said:
"To update the hostname inside the droplet run the following command via SSH or console and replace with your name:
hostname your_name_here "
I tried doing this but I’m not sure what effect it had or if I executed it correctly. I’m definitely a newbie.
You have to know who owns yciw.net. Where did you buy it from? Usually you are provided with a user interface where you can change these settings and add the subdomains to point to the ip of your DigitalOcean droplet, like discourse.yciw.net.
Sorry for the confusion. I own yciw.net and I’ve used Digital Ocean to create a droplet to host Discourse.
I’m having trouble changing the hostname.
I run the command in ssh as follows:
hostname discourse.yciw.net
When I look at the /etc/hostname file it still says discourse.yciw.com
Ask or search the support where you bought the domain. They should tell you how to add an A record to your domain yciw.net. Something like:
Host: discourse
IP: 104.131.117.1431
Record Type: A
Thanks. I’m still stuck on trying to fix the mistake I made when setting up the droplet with the wrong url.
Trying to edit it reflect discourse.yciw.net
DO wants me to edit this file:
I don’t really know how to do that.
Do you know how to ssh in your machine? These are basic steps. Read https://www.digitalocean.com/help/ and https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-set-up-ssh-keys--2.
Ok, I think I did it using nano.
I went to nano /etc/hostname and made the edit.
I saved it but I still get an error when I load discourse.yciw.net
The edit has now been correctly configured in the droplet. (discourse.yciw.net)
site still does not load
The Discourse set up guide does not mention anything about having to add subdomains to point to the Digital Ocean server. Is this just a common step that I should do…?
Ah, I see the directions now. Sorry! I need to set up the DNS on Digital Ocean.
Incorrect, you need to set up the dns with your domain name registrar, the place where you bought the domain name. Unless you bought that domain name from digital ocean…
Also @lake54 the droplet name is not just for show: it changes the reverse ptr record for the ip address. Granted since we tell people to use Mandrill for email this will not affect much but it should be correct, e.g. have the correct domain name.
For future reference, you should have edited that file with sudoedit. sudoedit will save a backup copy, and only overwrite the file if the editor exits normally (I think).
# sudoedit /etc/hostname
("Please pick an editor")