Hello to all, I am really eager to know if there is a comprehensive step by step guide available for discourse installation possibly with illustrations, including email and domain setup for beginners and, who have somewhat basic knowledge of command line? Google and youtube instructions seems to b…

Ok finally I could install it but skipped the lets encrypt email input part! Next is how to get a let’s encrypt account email to enter at let’s encrypt account email option while setting up; as that is the easiest way to get SSL installed with discourse instance as mentioned by @jomaxro here Advanc…

[image] Earlie: Next is how to get a let’s encrypt account email to enter at let’s encrypt account email option while setting up; Your link goes directly to the advice I’d give: just re-run ./discourse-setup and enter an email address for Let’s Encrypt to use. It can be any email address tha…

Understood but one must have a account with lets encrypt, and a registered email id to input at setup part! How to get that?

[image] Earlie: one must have a account with lets encrypt, and a registered email id to input at setup part! No, you don’t. Discourse will register the Let’s Encrypt account with the email address you supply. You don’t need to do anything directly with Let’s Encrypt.

But when I did that way I got this error! [image] Earlie: A connection to port 80 succeeds, however. This suggests that your DNS settings are correct, but something is keeping traffic to port 443 from getting to your server. Check your networking configuration to see that connections to port 44…

[image] Earlie: But when I did that way I got this error! That error has nothing at all to do with the Let’s Encrypt account–as discussed above, it appears that port 443 is not open on your system. I can think of a few possible reasons for this; there may be others: You’re using Cloudflare…

[image] danb35: No, you don’t. Discourse will register the Let’s Encrypt account with the email address you supply. You don’t need to do anything directly with Let’s Encrypt. If the particular email id I am providing had been used previously too for a discourse lets encrypt account setup, is …

[image] Earlie: is it poosible to use same email id again for another instance? Yes. You can use the same email address on any number of Let’s Encrypt accounts.

This time when done exactly as you told, I can read this error message" FAILED -------------------- Pups::ExecError: /usr/local/bin/ruby -e 'if ENV["DISCOURSE_SMTP_ADDRESS"] == "smtp.example.com"; puts "Aborting! Mail is not configured!"; exit 1; end' failed with return #<Process::Status: pid 189 e…

[image] Earlie: 'if ENV[“DISCOURSE_SMTP_ADDRESS”] == “ smtp.example.com ”; puts “Aborting! Mail is not configured!”; This looks like your problem. Did you enter the FQDN of an actual mail server? Or did you enter smtp.example.com? If the latter, that won’t work–you need to enter the actual d…

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Earlie (Discourse Enthusiast) September 16, 2019, 9:44pm 55

I could install it eventually but without the SSL, with having letsencrypt email entered it did not complete setup successfully!

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