While installing a new instance of Discourse on a freshly installed Hetzner server with the following specs:
As directed here…
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…and following those instructions here…
**Set up Discourse in the cloud in under 30 minutes** with zero knowledge of Rails or Linux shell. One example
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walkthrough will go through these in detail:
**[Before you start](#before-you-start)**
1. [Preparing your domain name](#1-preparing-your-domain-name)
2. [Setting up email](#2-setting-up-email)
**[Installation](#installation)**
3. [Create new cloud server](#3-create-new-cloud-server)
4. [Access new cloud server](#4-access-your-cloud-server)
5. [Install Prerequisites for Docker](#5-install-prerequisites-for-docker-debianubuntu-based-distro-example)
6. [Install Discourse](#6-install-discourse)
7. [Edit Discourse configuration](#7-edit-discourse-configuration)
8. [Start Discourse](#8-start-discourse)
9. [Register new account and become admin](#9-register-new-account-and-become-admin)
10. [Post-install maintenance](#10-post-install-maintenance)
11. [(Optional) Add more Discourse features](#11-optional-add-more-discourse-features)
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…like so…
…I am getting the error:
fatal: repository ‘https’ does not exist//github.com/discourse/discourse-docker.git: No such file or directory
I would appreciate any help!
pfaffman
May 14, 2023, 1:58am
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I can’t quite make sense if it. My best guess is that you somehow copied some invisible character between the colon and the //.
Maybe try typing the command. Or if you typed it, try copy and paste.
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Moin
May 14, 2023, 2:07am
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It looks like you typed https;//github…
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Yes, thank you @pfaffman and @Moin you were both correct… I had copy/pasted the command
https://github.com/discourse/discourse.git /var/discourse into the web-based console in Hetzner
I tried typing it into the console instead, and indeed that worked!
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Canapin
May 15, 2023, 11:54am
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This is a trap. Hetzner’s web console uses German
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system
June 14, 2023, 11:54am
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