I am grappling with establishing an integration between Ghost and Discourse.
Discourse is: 2.8.0.beta1, docker on Ubuntu - no nginx
I’m using traefik on a standalone system behind a single ip router - in a natted home lan. Traefik allows http/s routing.
Traefik is configured with a traefik_dynamic.toml rather than docker labels. There is no shared docker network. (If anyone is interested in the traefik config - please ping me - it works quite nicely as a reverse proxy).
Ghost is also the latest version ( 4.6.4) and runs on a separate host (both hosts are ubuntu VMs- VERSION="20.04.2 LTS (Focal Fossa), running on proxmox.
I have followed the variety of tutorial pages that are available on Ghost Doc site and Discourse forum.
Firefox web developer tools indicate that the page returns the following page source:
<div class="comment container small">
<div class="discourse-comments"></div>
<script type="text/javascript">
if (window.location.pathname.indexOf('/p/') < 0) {
DiscourseEmbed = { discourseUrl: 'https://discourse.mydomain/', discourseEmbedUrl: 'https://ghost.mydomain/testing-new-stuff/' };
(function() {
var d = document.createElement('script'); d.type = 'text/javascript'; d.async = true;
d.src = DiscourseEmbed.discourseUrl + 'javascripts/embed.js';
(document.getElementsByTagName('head')[0] || document.getElementsByTagName('body')[0]).appendChild(d);
})();
}
</script>
</div>
But no actual comments are returned. I can see that my discourse host returns embed.js but nada on the page. (sorry I’m not a web developer person).
So it seems that the script is getting through and returning nothing
Its a new discourse install and its still on training wheels (bootstrap mode). So there are hardly any topics yet
app.yml is appended below.
embedded host settings are ok I believe with discourse adminuser as username for topic creation, path allowlist is currently “”
I created a category testing and it is added to the Post to category.
Also added DISCOURSE_ENABLE_CORS: true to app.yml because that might help. I added the proxy and http://ghost.mydomain and http://ghost.mydomain to the cors origins.
Anybody able to offer advice on how might I debug this?
app.yml:
#
templates:
- "templates/postgres.template.yml"
- "templates/redis.template.yml"
- "templates/web.template.yml"
- "templates/web.ratelimited.template.yml"
## Uncomment these two lines if you wish to add Lets Encrypt (https)
# - "templates/web.ssl.template.yml"
# - "templates/web.letsencrypt.ssl.template.yml"
## which TCP/IP ports should this container expose?
## If you want Discourse to share a port with another webserver like Apache or nginx,
## see https://meta.discourse.org/t/17247 for details
expose:
- "8081:80" # http
# - "443:443" # https
params:
db_default_text_search_config: "pg_catalog.english"
## Set db_shared_buffers to a max of 25% of the total memory.
## will be set automatically by bootstrap based on detected RAM, or you can override
db_shared_buffers: "2048MB"
## can improve sorting performance, but adds memory usage per-connection
#db_work_mem: "40MB"
## Which Git revision should this container use? (default: tests-passed)
#version: tests-passed
env:
LC_ALL: en_US.UTF-8
LANG: en_US.UTF-8
LANGUAGE: en_US.UTF-8
# DISCOURSE_DEFAULT_LOCALE: en
DISCOURSE_ENABLE_CORS: true
## How many concurrent web requests are supported? Depends on memory and CPU cores.
## will be set automatically by bootstrap based on detected CPUs, or you can override
UNICORN_WORKERS: 2
## TODO: The domain name this Discourse instance will respond to
## Required. Discourse will not work with a bare IP number.
DISCOURSE_HOSTNAME: mydiscoursehost.mydomain
## Uncomment if you want the container to be started with the same
## hostname (-h option) as specified above (default "$hostname-$config")
#DOCKER_USE_HOSTNAME: true
## TODO: List of comma delimited emails that will be made admin and developer
## on initial signup example 'user1@example.com,user2@example.com'
DISCOURSE_DEVELOPER_EMAILS: 'myemailaddress@mydomain'
## TODO: The SMTP mail server used to validate new accounts and send notifications
# SMTP ADDRESS, username, and password are required
# WARNING the char '#' in SMTP password can cause problems!
DISCOURSE_SMTP_ADDRESS: smtp.mailgun.org
DISCOURSE_SMTP_PORT: 587
DISCOURSE_SMTP_USER_NAME: postmaster@mydomain
DISCOURSE_SMTP_PASSWORD: "mypostmasterpassword7"
#DISCOURSE_SMTP_ENABLE_START_TLS: true # (optional, default true)
DISCOURSE_SMTP_DOMAIN: mydomain
DISCOURSE_NOTIFICATION_EMAIL: noreply@mydomain
## If you added the Lets Encrypt template, uncomment below to get a free SSL certificate
# LETSENCRYPT_ACCOUNT_EMAIL: notused
## The http or https CDN address for this Discourse instance (configured to pull)
## see https://meta.discourse.org/t/14857 for details
#DISCOURSE_CDN_URL: https://discourse-cdn.example.com
## The maxmind geolocation IP address key for IP address lookup
## see https://meta.discourse.org/t/-/137387/23 for details
#DISCOURSE_MAXMIND_LICENSE_KEY: 1234567890123456
## The Docker container is stateless; all data is stored in /shared
volumes:
- volume:
host: /var/discourse/shared/standalone
guest: /shared
- volume:
host: /var/discourse/shared/standalone/log/var-log
guest: /var/log
## Plugins go here
## see https://meta.discourse.org/t/19157 for details
hooks:
after_code:
- exec:
cd: $home/plugins
cmd:
- git clone https://github.com/discourse/docker_manager.git
## Any custom commands to run after building
run:
- exec: echo "Beginning of custom commands"
## If you want to set the 'From' email address for your first registration, uncomment and change:
## After getting the first signup email, re-comment the line. It only needs to run once.
#- exec: rails r "SiteSetting.notification_email='info@unconfigured.discourse.org'"
- exec: echo "End of custom commands"