Hi all, it seems for me that i cant find tutorial how to install discourse on dedicated hosting by simply copying files to public_html and starting intallation. I own bare metal machine with Windows Server 2022.
Can anyone help?
AI-generated summary
The discussion revolves around installing Discourse on a dedicated server with Windows Server 2022, but the community clarifies that Windows Server is not supported. jugigi seeks a simple file-copy installation method, but Jagster explains that Discourse requires shell access and uses a different setup than typical web applications. merefield points out the confusion between ‘shared’ and ‘dedicated’ hosting in the post. dancingCycle shares a guide using Ansible for Linux-based installations, while pfaffman warns that such methods are not standard and may not receive support, nor are they suitable for production use.
That guide is a bit difficult to find here but Google finds it:
You need access to shell, because Discourse works different way than using your web-root.
Windows Server is not supported.
btw, your Post and Title conflict.
Your Title says “shared”, your Post says “dedicated … bare metal”
Hi folks,
For the sake of completeness the following guide presents an overview on how to use configuration management like Ansible to install, update or delete Discourse on a Linux based distribution like GNU/Debian.
Cheers!
That’s installing locally and not a standard install. You won’t be able to get support here if you install it that way. It’s also not clear to me that it’s not just a development install, which will run much more slowly than the docker install