How do I edit my "/containers/app.yml file" from the root@digitialoceandropletname ssh workspace?

I installed discourse through DigitalOcean with the instructions here

The instructions read:

If you need to change or fix these settings after bootstrapping, edit your /containers/app.yml file

I am at the command prompt and logged into the ssh workspace

root@discourseforum:~#

Can someone please explain how I open the “/containers/app.yml file” file to edit it?

This should work:

cd /var/discourse
nano containers/app.yml

This just gives me a black screen. How do I access the text file to make changes?

Hmm…is the file not there?

What do you get when you run:

cd /var/discourse/containers
ls -la

Also, just to check, when you ran the commands in my previous post, you didn’t put a slash in front of containers, right?

thanks this works after i started over with a fresh install from a fresh droplet. it wasn’t working previously thanks.

Você pode usar um dos modelos da pasta templates. Por exemplo, se quiser executar um servidor autônomo, basta usar o arquivo standalone.yml.

Exemplo:

cp /var/discourse/samples/standalone.yml /var/discourse/containers/app.yml

Lá, você pode fazer as alterações necessárias.

Pelo que sei, quando não está no contêiner, containers é um subdiretório de /var/discourse; não existe um diretório /containers. Portanto, se não me engano, a linha “ou edite /containers/app.yml manualmente” em INSTALL.md deveria ser “ou edite containers/app.yml manualmente” ou “ou edite /var/discourse/containers/app.yml manualmente”.