HI, I would like to know the steps involved in Discourse installation end to end on Windows Server 2016. Thanks, Arun

You won’t find them here. If you want support here you must follow these instructions: discourse/docs/INSTALL-cloud.md at main · discourse/discourse · GitHub .

Easy, switch the darn thing off and follow these instructions :wink: [image] pfaffman: You won’t find them here. If you want support here you must follow these instructions: discourse/INSTALL-cloud.md at master · discourse/discourse · GitHub . Seriously though, I understand you can get docker…

Thanks merefield and Jay. I was thinking the below route: Provision Windows Server 2016(which has inbuilt Docker) in AWS or Azure. Install Ubuntu Container image Start the docker like below .\docker.exe run -it ubuntu now install discourse in the linux shell GitHub - discourse/discourse_docker:…

[image] pkarun: Will the above work, are there any issues? No, it won’t work. You can’t run docker inside docker. Running production Discourse in Windows isn’t supported. Since you are using AWS/Azure just provision a Linux VM.

Thanks Rafael for the reply. The problem being, currently my enterprise does not support Docker in Linux machines On-Prem or Cloud for security reasons. Trying to see the best work around in this scenario? Now im left with the below options: Is there any way that i can make the Discousre work on …

Let me preface this by saying Discourse is FOSS, you can do whatever you want. However, we limit our free support to only official installations that use our guide, which uses Linux + Docker. [image] pkarun: Is there any way that i can make the Discousre work on Windows server using Docker? OR …

Thanks for the detailed explanation Rafael. Changing your enterprise policy and running a Linux server ----------Long way to go Buying our hosted Discourse service: https://discourse.org/buy 1 ----------We cannot take this option. Because of app’s personal data, have to be on our servers. Using …

Thanks Jay. Many close options but mostly not recommended :frowning:

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pfaffman (Jay Pfaffman) August 21, 2018, 6:32pm 9

You could do a development install (Install Discourse on Windows for development) and then stick an nginx in front of it. But that’s not really recommended either.

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