I’ve went the step of using WSL and downloaded Ubuntu 20.04.4 LTS. Then going through the - discourse/docs/INSTALL-cloud.md at main · discourse/discourse · GitHub setup, I get hit with an alert that I should use WSL DETECTED: We recommend using Docker Desktop for Windows. Please get Docker Desk…

[image] Install Discourse for development using Docker Developer Guides Developing using Docker Since Discourse runs in Docker, you should be able to run Discourse directly from your source directory using a Discourse development container. white_check_mark Pr…

[image] Nixxxxxx: I do not see a tutorial that would install a production environment of Discourse If your want a production environment you need to use Ubuntu (or some Linux at least). Production on windows is not supported.

What’s your purpose? Have a forum that you can access outside your computer, or just trying stuff on a local installation? I experiment daily on a “production” forum on Ubuntu via WSL on Windows 10. The forum is not accessible from the internet, I only use it locally. I just configured some files i…

[image] Coin-coin le Canapin: What’s your purpose? Have a forum that you can access outside your computer, or just trying stuff on a local installation? Just wanting to run the discourse site without development mode settings on my local machine. Just trying to see if there’s instructions fo…

For my configuration, where the forum isn’t accessible from the Internet, but is from my own computer), I ignored the warning. However, I needed a domain name to be resolved from my Windows browser, so I needed to do these steps: Redirect an arbitrary domain name (d.com here) to my machine by ed…

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pfaffman (Jay Pfaffman) May 9, 2022, 9:49am 3

If your want a production environment you need to use Ubuntu (or some Linux at least). Production on windows is not supported.

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