Having lots of problems installing discourse. Cant use two containers because of a weird ssh container problem. Single container.. app.yml leads to duplicate containers. Tried lots of ai assisted fixes but we’ve been going round in circles. Docker seems to be very flaky atm. After 3 days of mu…

Did you try starting on a brand new server and following the standard install guide? Please forget two container setups, unless you know what you doing.

Yes new server. Said I’d tried both methods. Done two container many times. Following guide to letter. How your reply is a solution to my problem beats me.

[image] geoff777: How your reply is a solution to my problem beats me. Falco’s reply is an attempt to gather more information, quite necessary given the lack of relevant information. Why are you being rude to someone attempting to gather further information to help you? The only useful info…

[image] supermathie: since ssh has nothing to do with docker. It does, its an old method of accessing a container. Last line of web_only.yml

[image] geoff777: Said I’d tried both methods. Can you clarify, following the issues you had, did you spin up a brand new droplet and try again?

[image] geoff777: Cant use two containers because of a weird ssh container problem. That’s a warning. Not an error. [image] geoff777: Docker seems to be very flaky atm. Sounds like not Discourse’s fault. Does docker run hello-world work? [image] geoff777: Has anyone successfu…

[image] pfaffman: That’s a warning. Not an error. Was showing as FATAL. Otherwise I’d have been unaware as in all previous installs. I had docker problems, two containers with web_only were running? Possibly caused by Docker and unauthorized requests so I had to get a docker hub login. The…

I’m not sure about memory. I was using the $8 Intel on DO. Then after a couple of failures, I upped it to a $32 dollar Intel (free credit to burn) as I thought it would speed the failure process up. Once I get an instance up & running I really need to go back to the cheapest until I launch the site…

This post of mine has the info for setting up a swap file. [image] Failed new install Self-hosting That is possible. No swap setup. Could you share the command to add a 4g swap. Been awhile since have played around with that. Found this topic working on it…

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Heliosurge (Dan DeMontmorency) March 30, 2025, 6:39pm 9

What is your server specs? Recently discovered that a 4g ram server requires swap.

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