I need to be sure what I am experiencing is normal. SSL certificate expired, forcing a rebuild of app which failed. What I had to do after failed upgrade: reconstruct database from data_dir files - :white_check_mark: backed up uploads - :white_check_mark: installed discourse locally, pointed the…

[image] will_io: The command line has been producing transaction output like this for over 24hrs. You are not stuck, that command you ran starts a webserver and keeps running it until you manually quit it.

I ended up accomplishing what I needed with discourse containerized on a web server. Thank you. Problems I have since encountered: unique_index_categories_on_slug which stems from the migrations but a second uncategorized slug in the categories was the actual culprit - solved by renaming slug cus…

Did you do the standard install ? Did you do a ./launcher rebuild app After adding the plugins?

[image] pfaffman: Did you do the standard install ? Did you do a ./launcher rebuild app After adding the plugins? Absolutely followed the official installation instructions for the web server. I can enter the app and clone repositories into the plugins folder but cannot get app.yml to pull…

Rather than the checkout of v2.8.1 maybe just use the stable branch?

I am ‘up’, nearly back to a 100% homeostasis. Thank you both for all of your help. Considering I have a topic dedicated to my upgrade and, likewise, both of your attention, I have a question about tabular data. I have tables in posts that source static images on the web (that will never change in …

I believe that was with a different markdown engine, and that’s no longer a legal way to do it. I think you’ll need to convert it to markdown only, which might be a bit tricky. Maybe Rafael has an idea.

<img width="20" height="20" src="https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/9/4/94121285d841eba5a7889a338a9baac04b3a6e79.png"/> becomes [image] Looks like it works already? Don’t forget the quotes.

For the sake of testing and clarification, in addition to quotes you’re saying the images now also require both a height and a width attribute to effectively change the size? See the examples below for confusion about that: Code in Editor: |Column A|Column B|Column C|Column D| |-|-|-|-| |Test A1|T…

Failed Upgrade from 2.3.0 to 2.8.1

Support Self-hosting

pfaffman (Jay Pfaffman) March 5, 2022, 3:25pm 4

I guess this isn’t a standard install?

If recommend making a backup and moving to that setup.

Topic		Replies	Views
Problem upgrading Discourse Self-hosting	4	1559	October 11, 2019
Discourse upgrade via Web UI Fails & SSH Upgrade Brings Down Discourse Instance Self-hosting	16	2146	November 26, 2021
An upgrade knocked my site offline; how long until it's restored? Self-hosting	15	409	July 10, 2025
Laucher rebuild app fails Self-hosting	2	239	August 30, 2024
Discourse upgrade error "FAILED TO BOOTSTRAP" Support	14	2101	September 3, 2021

Failed Upgrade from 2.3.0 to 2.8.1

Related topics