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Yep, I’ve put some дштуы to the app.yml file then rebuilded the application.

containers/app.yml

templates:
  - "templates/postgres.template.yml"
  - "templates/redis.template.yml"
  - "templates/web.template.yml"
  - "templates/web.ratelimited.template.yml"
## Uncomment these two lines if you wish to add Lets Encrypt (https)
  - "templates/web.ssl.template.yml"
  - "templates/web.letsencrypt.ssl.template.yml"

## which TCP/IP ports should this container expose?
## If you want Discourse to share a port with another webserver like Apache or $
## see https://meta.discourse.org/t/17247 for details
expose:
  - "80:80"   # fwd host port 80 to container port 80 (http)
  - "443:443" # https

params:
  db_default_text_search_config: "pg_catalog.english"

  ## Set db_shared_buffers to a max of 25% of the total memory.
  ## will be set automatically by bootstrap based on detected RAM, or you can o$
  #db_shared_buffers: "256MB"

  ## can improve sorting performance, but adds memory usage per-connection
  #db_work_mem: "40MB"

  ## Which Git revision should this container use? (default: tests-passed)
  #version: tests-passed

env:
  LANG: en_US.UTF-8
  # DISCOURSE_DEFAULT_LOCALE: en
  # LETSENCRYPT_ACCOUNT_EMAIL: '*********@gmail.com'

You still have it commented out. You need to remove the # in front of LETSENCRYPT_ACCOUNT_EMAIL

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Thanks mate, I uncommented this line and I’ve just rebuilt the app, however http://specknz.me/ is still not working :slight_smile:

Removing old container
+ /usr/bin/docker rm app
app

+ /usr/bin/docker run -d --restart=always -e LANG=en_US.UTF-8 -e RAILS_ENV=production -e UNICORN_WORKERS=3 -e UNICORN_SIDEKIQS=1 -e RUBY_GLOBAL_METHOD_CACHE_SIZE=131072 -e DISCOURSE_DB_SOCKET=/var/run/postgresql -e DISCOURSE_DB_HOST= -e DISCOURSE_DB_PORT= -e LETSENCRYPT_DIR=/shared/letsencrypt -e LETSENCRYPT_ACCOUNT_EMAIL=********@gmail.com -e DISCOURSE_HOSTNAME=speckme.nz -e DISCOURSE_DEVELOPER_EMAILS=********@gmail.com -e DISCOURSE_SMTP_ADDRESS=smtp.gmail.com -h discourse-app -e DOCKER_HOST_IP=172.17.0.1 --name app -t -p 80:80 -p 443:443 -v /var/discourse/shared/standalone:/shared -v /var/discourse/shared/standalone/log/var-log:/var/log --mac-address 02:f9:8c:dd:3d:63 local_discourse/app /sbin/boot
8196afcbe767c649b3cb20dcb76c607d5267e3e8eaff323f98050de085769137
root@discourse:/var/discourse#

You’ll have to paste more of your app.yml, be sure to remove any sensitive information, such as, passwords and email addresses (that you don’t what publicized).

Seems the rebuild was successful though…

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Sure :slight_smile:

    ## this is the all-in-one, standalone Discourse Docker container
    ## template
    ##
    ## After making changes to this file, you MUST rebuild
    ## /var/discourse/launcher rebuild app
    ##
    ## BE *VERY* CAREFUL WHEN EDITING!
    ## YAML FILES ARE SUPER SUPER SENSITIVE TO MISTAKES IN WHITESPACE OR ALIGNMENT!
    ## visit http://www.yamllint.com/ to validate this file as needed

    templates:
      - "templates/postgres.template.yml"
      - "templates/redis.template.yml"
      - "templates/web.template.yml"
      - "templates/web.ratelimited.template.yml"
    ## Uncomment these two lines if you wish to add Lets Encrypt (https)
      - "templates/web.ssl.template.yml"
      - "templates/web.letsencrypt.ssl.template.yml"

    ## which TCP/IP ports should this container expose?
    ## If you want Discourse to share a port with another webserver like Apache or nginx,
    ## see https://meta.discourse.org/t/17247 for details
    expose:
      - "80:80"   # fwd host port 80 to container port 80 (http)
      - "443:443" # https

    params:
      db_default_text_search_config: "pg_catalog.english"

      ## Set db_shared_buffers to a max of 25% of the total memory.
      ## will be set automatically by bootstrap based on detected RAM, or you can override
      #db_shared_buffers: "256MB"

      ## can improve sorting performance, but adds memory usage per-connection
      #db_work_mem: "40MB"

      ## Which Git revision should this container use? (default: tests-passed)
      #version: tests-passed

    env:
      LANG: en_US.UTF-8
      # DISCOURSE_DEFAULT_LOCALE: en
      LETSENCRYPT_ACCOUNT_EMAIL: '**********@gmail.com'

    ## How many concurrent web requests are supported? Depends on memory and CPU cores.
      ## will be set automatically by bootstrap based on detected CPUs, or you can override
      #UNICORN_WORKERS: 3

      ## TODO: The domain name this Discourse instance will respond to
      DISCOURSE_HOSTNAME: 'speckme.nz'

      ## Uncomment if you want the container to be started with the same
      ## hostname (-h option) as specified above (default "$hostname-$config")
      #DOCKER_USE_HOSTNAME: true

      ## TODO: List of comma delimited emails that will be made admin and developer
      ## on initial signup example 'user1@example.com,user2@example.com'
      DISCOURSE_DEVELOPER_EMAILS: '********@gmail.com'

      ## TODO: The SMTP mail server used to validate new accounts and send notifications
      DISCOURSE_SMTP_ADDRESS: smtp.gmail.com         # required
      DISCOURSE_SMTP_PORT: 587                        # (optional, default 587)
      DISCOURSE_SMTP_USER_NAME: ***********@gmail.com      # required
      DISCOURSE_SMTP_PASSWORD: **********               # required, WARNING the char '#' in pw can cause problems!
      DISCOURSE_SMTP_ENABLE_START_TLS: true           # (optional, default true)

      ## If you added the Lets Encrypt template, uncomment below to get a free SSL certificate
      LETSENCRYPT_ACCOUNT_EMAIL: ************@gmail.com

      ## The CDN address for this Discourse instance (configured to pull)
      ## see https://meta.discourse.org/t/14857 for details
      #DISCOURSE_CDN_URL: //discourse-cdn.example.com

    ## The Docker container is stateless; all data is stored in /shared
    volumes:
      - volume:
          host: /var/discourse/shared/standalone
          guest: /shared
      - volume:
          host: /var/discourse/shared/standalone/log/var-log
          guest: /var/log

    ## Plugins go here
    ## see https://meta.discourse.org/t/19157 for details
    hooks:
      after_code:
        - exec:
            cd: $home/plugins
            cmd:
              - git clone https://github.com/discourse/docker_manager.git

    ## Any custom commands to run after building
    run:
      - exec: echo "Beginning of custom commands"
      ## If you want to set the 'From' email address for your first registration, uncomment and change:
      ## After getting the first signup email, re-comment the line. It only needs to run once.
      #- exec: rails r "SiteSetting.notification_email='info@unconfigured.discourse.org'"
      - exec: echo "End of custom commands"

Wait… now you have LETSENCRPYT_ACCOUNT_EMAIL in there twice. You only need it once (your prior subset didn’t indicate that it was there twice).

I’m not seeing anything obvious however. Do you have apache/nginx sitting in front of Discourse and hosting other sites on the same box, or does this box only run Discourse via Docker?

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Yep, I initialised Nginx to handle two websites, then decided to don’t use this approach for the $5 Droplet.

Any chance you still have parts of nginx configured and it is intefering with serving Discourse?

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The settings should be sitting there. How could I switch it off or maybe uninstalling can help in this case, but I’m not sure that it could be help to clean the settings.

well, you definitely want to make sure it isn’t running, using service nginx stop or at the very least uninstall it, if it is uninstalled it won’t utilize its configuration files and thus shouldn’t interfere with Discourse.

Be sure to reboot after uninstalling though to make sure it frees up port 80/443

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I used this tutorial to setup the settings, but didn’t complete: How To Host Multiple Websites Securely With Nginx And Php-fpm On Ubuntu 14.04 | DigitalOcean, however the Discourse worked pretty good. Anyway, I’ve just uninstalled PHP and Nginx from Ubuntu 14.04 and how could I check this port 80/443?

Is it possible to grab the data from the Discourse in that condition, whatever I’ve posted? I just would like to create new Droplet and initialize it to the new Discourse installation.

If you create a new droplet, you simply can skip install nginx, apache, or any other server that would use port 80/443. So simply initialize the droplet, and then follow the install instructions for Discourse.

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Yeah, but could I save somehow the data from the Discourse through the Droplet? :slight_smile:

You mean the backup file? that contains the data and database? That should be in the /var/discourse/shared/standalone/backups/default

You simply need to copy the latest .tar.gz file to another location

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Unfortunately, the backup image is quite not fresh, but if I can’t get the all data by the other way will do so.

BTW, I’ve just checked the port 80/443 and it seems that the Docker are using these ports.

root@discourse:~# netstat -punta | grep 443
tcp6       0      0 :::443                  :::*                    LISTEN      1301/docker-proxy
root@discourse:~# netstat -punta | grep 80
tcp6       0      0 :::80                   :::*                    LISTEN      1324/docker-proxy
tcp6       0      0 fe80::c0a:f3ff:fe81::53 :::*                    LISTEN      1115/dnsmasq
udp6       0      0 fe80::c0a:f3ff:fe81::53 :::*                                1115/dnsmasq