# Error when changing Email

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/error-when-changing-email/160296
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [August 9, 2020, 11:15pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/error-when-changing-email/160296 "2020-08-09T23:15:48Z")
**Posts on this page:** 8
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### Author: ![CorruptBlu](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/corruptblu/32/222475_2.png) [@CorruptBlu](https://meta.discourse.org/u/CorruptBlu)
#### Post date: [August 9, 2020, 11:15pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/error-when-changing-email/160296/1 "2020-08-09T23:15:48Z")

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I keep getting this error after changing the email for the Admin account:

```plaintext
(<unknown>): did not find expected key while parsing a block mapping at line 40 column 3 -e LANG=en_US.UTF-8
YAML syntax error. Please check your containers/*.yml config files.

```

Anyone know how to fix it?

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### Author: ![CorruptBlu](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/corruptblu/32/222475_2.png) [@CorruptBlu](https://meta.discourse.org/u/CorruptBlu)
#### Post date: [August 9, 2020, 11:54pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/error-when-changing-email/160296/2 "2020-08-09T23:54:12Z")

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How would I check my `containers/*.yml` config files?

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### Author: ![IAmGav](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/iamgav/32/235598_2.png) [@IAmGav](https://meta.discourse.org/u/IAmGav)
#### Post date: [August 10, 2020, 12:18am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/error-when-changing-email/160296/3 "2020-08-10T00:18:43Z")

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you need to look in the app.yml file

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### Author: ![CorruptBlu](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/corruptblu/32/222475_2.png) [@CorruptBlu](https://meta.discourse.org/u/CorruptBlu)
#### Post date: [August 10, 2020, 12:29am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/error-when-changing-email/160296/4 "2020-08-10T00:29:13Z")

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Ok, how would I access that file?

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### Author: ![IAmGav](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/iamgav/32/235598_2.png) [@IAmGav](https://meta.discourse.org/u/IAmGav)
#### Post date: [August 10, 2020, 12:31am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/error-when-changing-email/160296/5 "2020-08-10T00:31:39Z")

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how did you setup discourse?

or is discourse hosting it ?

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### Author: ![CorruptBlu](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/corruptblu/32/222475_2.png) [@CorruptBlu](https://meta.discourse.org/u/CorruptBlu)
#### Post date: [August 10, 2020, 12:33am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/error-when-changing-email/160296/6 "2020-08-10T00:33:08Z")

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I used Oracle, and I am currently ssh’d into the VM.

EDIT: Link for what I used: [https://blogs.oracle.com/developers/install-run-discourse-for-free-in-the-oracle-cloud](https://blogs.oracle.com/developers/install-run-discourse-for-free-in-the-oracle-cloud)

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### Author: ![IAmGav](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/iamgav/32/235598_2.png) [@IAmGav](https://meta.discourse.org/u/IAmGav)
#### Post date: [August 10, 2020, 12:36am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/error-when-changing-email/160296/7 "2020-08-10T00:36:22Z")

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vim /var/discourse/containers/app.yml

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### Author: ![CorruptBlu](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/corruptblu/32/222475_2.png) [@CorruptBlu](https://meta.discourse.org/u/CorruptBlu)
#### Post date: [August 10, 2020, 1:01am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/error-when-changing-email/160296/9 "2020-08-10T01:01:53Z")

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Ok, let me try that.

EDIT: I’m in the file, what would I do/look for next?