Dear Community, I’ve tried to install a private instance of Discourse, following the official instructions at discourse/docs/INSTALL-cloud.md at main · discourse/discourse · GitHub . Even though the scripts look utterly complex, I had to manually modify the container.yml and the discourse-setup file…

Hurray! It seems my email provider finally accepts the port 587 and I’ve correctly received the activation mail! The whole app in now up and running and I’m gonna dig into all settings… Thanks a lot to all of you, thanks for the helping hand!

[image] Jean-Luc GARNIER: Opening a browser to discourse.mydomain.com leads me to… the Nextcloud instance running on the server Then you need to configure that nginx to proxy to discourse. I recommend that you just spin up a fresh vm just for Discourse.

Sorry Stephen for the confusion, I just used the name of the tool which is referenced in the article. I understand that NPM and nginx (as a) proxy manager are different things, this is why I used capital letters…

[image] Jay Pfaffman: Then you need to configure that nginx to proxy to discourse. This is exactly what I’m trying to do and I understand you cannot support on this. However, any hint / link would be appreciated! [image] Jay Pfaffman: I recommend that you just spin up a fresh vm just for…

That is rather annoying and confusing, but to be fair to @jlgarnier , that acronym was first used by either @tophee or @pfaffman in Using Nginx Proxy Manager to manage multiple sites with Discourse to refer to Nginx Proxy Manager. I don’t love it, but if it is ‘wrong’, that isn’t really OP’s fault. F…

Wow, that fooled me as well. Annoying how that project hijacked an existing acronym eight years after the original.

I’m not sure that it has; I’ve browsed their site & not seen them use the acronym themselves.

They do use it in their Docker setups. nginx-proxy-manager/docker/docker-compose.dev.yml at develop · NginxProxyManager/nginx-proxy-manager · GitHub services: npm: image: nginxproxymanager:dev container_name: npm_core

Ah, oops! I hadn’t realised that. :slightly_smiling_face:

Hi all, I’ll try to setup nginx again this afternoon. Can anyone confirm the exact syntax for the socket: http://unix:/var/discourse/shared/standalone/nginx.http.sock:? I want to make sure that the trailing colon is not a typo… Thanks in advance for any help!

I don’t think that colon should be there, no.

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