When migrating (via backup) a Discourse from one hostname to another, an admin might want to keep the old hostname but have the web server rewrite requests to use the new canonical name, e.g.: https://old.example.org/t/my-great-topic/12345 :arrow_heading_down: https://new.example.org/t/my-great-to…

Update: Successfully configured the secondary domain name on the standalone installation, and issued a Let’s Encrypt certificate to handle both old and new names. Precondition: I did not yet change DNS to point folks over to the new site; I wanted things to be sure to work ahead of time. So I was u…

Not Discourse-specific, but when I need to redirect over HTTPS I just redirect everything. Meaning having a server doing the redirect from the old address to the new. Some hosting options take care of this in the background, sometimes called a “domain redirect” or “forwarding” service. I don’t even…

[image] downey: However, the Discourse configuration passes the Discourse hostname (only) to Let’s Encrypt, and there is no concept that I can see in the Discourse configuration for aliases. Discourse will only answer to one hostname. If you want more than one hostname - where your use case, …

[image] michaeld: Discourse will only answer to one hostname. Actually if you’re using a single-instance-per-server Docker-based installation, it will answer fine to any number of DNS entries (nginx is listening on port 80 and 443 for all hostnames), and correctly rewrite the URL to the canon…

[image] downey: I would rather not have to maintain a separate web server just to do a rewrite rule, if possible You don’t need to, you just need an extra server section in your config.

This is a perfect application for a Cloudflare rule - zero server configuration. Just throw the same URL parameters at the new domain. The orange cloud will need to be enabled for the old domain name.

[image] Stephen: This is a perfect application for a Cloudflare rule - zero server configuration. Just throw the same URL parameters at the new domain. Yeah, a reverse proxy situation like Cloudflare (or I suppose your own reverse proxy of choice in front of your Discourse site) could workaro…

Discourse + Let's Encrypt w/ multiple hostnames

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pfaffman (Jay Pfaffman) January 17, 2020, 11:06pm 6

Maybe have a look at Set up Let’s Encrypt with multiple domains / redirects

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