Discourse on nginx WITHOUT Passenger?

[dylanhpt (dhpt)]

Discourse is hosted on nginx. After using the official install guide in 2016, I found a guide to use Passenger with Nginx to reverse proxy serve Discourse. Apparently this was the only way, back then, unless you wanted to only serve Discourse and nothing else.

However, modern days, I have all kinds of issues with this setup. All kinds of ppa’s are dead, Nginx doesn’t natively support Passenger (you have to rebuild it with it), and all kinds of dependencies (such as Docker) are clashing.

Is there a way to not use Passenger with nginx and still reverse proxy?

[itsbhanusharma (Bhanu Sharma)]

Hi,

Please have a look at

Running other websites on the same machine as Discourse

If you want to run other websites on the same machine as Discourse, you need to set up an extra NGINX or HAProxy proxy in front of the Docker container. NOTE: This is for advanced admins This guide assumes you already have Discourse working - if you don’t, it may be hard to tell whether or not the configuration is working. You cannot use ./discourse-setup to set up Discourse if another server is using port 80 or 443. You will need to copy and edit samples/standalone.yml with your favorite tex…