I’m sure these instructions work well for those who use cloud servers dedicated to the purpose of hosting only Discourse. But there may be quite a large number who want to install it on hosts that already have web and mail servers running (and understand the stated performance disadvantages). I re…

There exists documentation. It’s just that you need to understand both discourse and how reverse proxies work. Set up Discourse on a server with existing Apache sites Use Nginx Proxy Manager to manage multiple sites with Discourse I thought there was another for nginx, but wasn’t able to find it …

I agree there’s documentation. It’s just not in a suitable format (or discoverable, as you’ve shown) compared to the way it’s presented in the GH repo.

Hey @gilgongo , have you looked at Documentation - Discourse Meta ? To a certain extent the documentation available represents the limited scope of the free support we can provide here. A fresh VPS at DigitalOcean is a know quantity. This approach allows us to provide steps which are easy to follo…

I have looked at the docs section - in fact I refer to it in my post above. But I don’t want to rock the boat. I accept you can’t cater for all environments (even if you are using “run anywhere” Docker). I was just curious.

Sorry, I wasn’t clear: by “submitting” I meant a pull request to the repo in which this lives , not posting to the forums. I suppose the reasons about discussions not being ideal for docs are the same as the reasons for the “discourse docs” plugin, which plugin seems to address all those reasons ver…

[image] Jonathan: Sorry, I wasn’t clear: by “submitting” I meant a pull request to the repo in which this lives , not posting to the forums. I understood from the start. My answer (and I don’t have any control over any official Discourse repos) is “no.” The recommended solution is dead simple …

I understood from the start. My answer (and I don’t have any control over any official Discourse repos) is “no.” Haha, I wasn’t replying to you! This just gets more confusing as we go on, I’m so sorry. Look - let’s just leave this. Maybe somebody can delete the whole thread. I should not have br…

Could the installation docs address more situations?

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Could the installation docs address more situations?

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