We have a INT and prod environment and it´s hard at the moment to keep track of all the differences.
Is it possible somehow, to clone the PROD environment (topics / categories / settings / … ) to INT regulary and keep the INT individual stuff (hostname / ssl / email / … ) ?
Do I have to do that manually (store the individual stuff somewhere / clone / overwrite the individual stuff with int specifics / … ), or is there some discourse tool which I could use ?
Specify all stage-individual settings as hard-coded variables in app.yaml
Copy backup from prod to int
Restore it
Rebuild the app
At least here it works, but here comes the next question: So the instance won´t pester the users, how can I deactivate all settings that could lead to an email to the users?
Personal email settings
Watched, tracked categories
…
At the moment, I intentionally misconfigured the mail server, but someday when I want to test something with mails …
There is a disable emails site setting. I think it’s automatically activated when you restore a backup. For testing, you could enable e-mails for staff only.