How to install Discourse on windows

[mitra (lakeerchand)]

I am completely new to Ruby on Rails , but i want to install discourse on windows, i have installed docker , but when i click to start it, it goes off after just 1 or 2 second. i dont know what to do, is that docker dosn’t work on windows, or am i doing wrong something else, my IDE is NetBeans ,
I know this is something silly , But please help me out in this,

[Qasem_h]

best way for development and testُ disourse , install discourse in ubuntu or mac

####im installed in windows with virtualbox but not work properly and its work very slowly

###for windows test this :

Discourse as Your First Rails App

###for linux ubuntu

Beginners Guide to Install Discourse on Ubuntu for Development

This guide covers installation instructions in development environment, for a production guide see: How to install Discourse in production So you want to set up Discourse on Ubuntu to hack on and develop with? We’ll assume that you don’t have Ruby/Rails/Postgre/Redis installed on your Ubuntu system. Let’s begin! Although this guide assumes that you are using Ubuntu, but the set-up instructions will work fine for any Debian based distribution. (If you want to install Discourse for…

###for mac :

Beginners Guide to Install Discourse on macOS for Development

This guide covers installation instructions in development environment, for a production guide see: How to install Discourse in production This guide is written for Intel based Mac. If you want to install Discourse on Apple Silicon Mac have a look a this guide instead: Tips and tricks for developing Rails applications on Apple Silicon - rubyonrails-talk - Ruby on Rails Discussions. So you want to set up Discourse on macOS to hack on and develop with? We’ll a…

[mitra (lakeerchand)]

Thank you @Qasem_h for reply,
I have gone through that link, i have installed vagrant (VM) , and virtual box , but when i download github, it discarded the installation automatically , i got baffled , dont know what to do. I am working on windows 7 .

[Qasem_h]

@mitra

I have gone through that link, i have installed vagrant (VM) , and virtual box , but when i download github, it discarded the installation automatically , i got baffled , dont know what to do. I am working on windows 7 .

whats your error ?

this is installion information :
after install VM and vagrant
git discourse clone
cd your cloned discourse location
and type : vagrant up (Its takes some time)

vagrant ssh
bundle install
bundle exec rake db:migrate
bundle exec rails server
and open http://localhost:3000 in your browser

[mitra (lakeerchand)]

I think i should spend some more time with this.
But your help is really appreciated. Thanks.

[Mittineague]

@Qasem_h

and open http://localhost:3000 in your browser

For me it’s localhost:4000 i.e port 4000 not port 3000
* I have not been able to run in production mode due to Windows security interfering with “shared folders”

[mitra (lakeerchand)]

I have installed the git , after inserting commit message , when i clicked on commit button an error popup comes

.
what to do next please help.

[Qasem_h]

read this :
https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Getting-Started-First-Time-Git-Setup
and this

Set up Git - GitHub Docs

[mitra (lakeerchand)]

Hi there , Discourse is now running fine on windows, but when i go to
[http://localhost:4000/admin/][1] or to any other page , it gets me to this error page ,

now dont know what to do, coz being unaware of rails
[1]: http://localhost:4000/admin/
kindly help me out in this,

Thanks in advance ,

[Qasem_h]

First create a admin account

[mitra (lakeerchand)]

yes , but how to create the admin account . coz when i go to to http://localhost:4000/admin/

it takes me to the page ( screen shot is attched on above reply.)

[Qasem_h]

First create a acounte in the site
go to your git bash and type : rake admin:create active that acouunt and gnrate admin rank

Create Admin Account from Console

Grant Admin Privileges to Existing Account

Run this command from console:

rake admin:create

You will be asked for Email, enter the email of existing account.

Now you will be asked: User with this email already exists! Do you want to reset the password for this email? (Y/n). Press n then enter.

Now you will be asked: Do you want to grant Admin privileges to this account? (Y/n). Press enter to continue.

You will see success message Your account now has Admin privileges!.

That’s it, you have successfully granted Admin privileges to existing account.

[superslowwindows]

After installing and cloning,

vagrant up

doesn’t do anything … .

Is that normal?

[Falco]

You should follow the official guide:

Beginners Guide to Install Discourse on Windows 10 for Development

So you want to set up a development environment for Discourse on Windows 10? You can do it easily using Windows Subsystem for Linux feature. It is faster too . This setup requires the WSL 2 installation. It is only available in Windows 10 builds 18917 or higher. We’ll assume that you already installed Windows Subsystem for Linux 2 (Ubuntu) on your Windows 10 system. Let’s begin! Initially follow the steps from the topic Beginners Guide to Install Discourse on Ubuntu for Developm…

[superslowwindows]

Don’t have Windows 10.

[Falco]

So you can run a virtual machine with latest Ubuntu and follow:

Beginners Guide to Install Discourse on Ubuntu for Development

This guide covers installation instructions in development environment, for a production guide see: How to install Discourse in production So you want to set up Discourse on Ubuntu to hack on and develop with? We’ll assume that you don’t have Ruby/Rails/Postgre/Redis installed on your Ubuntu system. Let’s begin! Although this guide assumes that you are using Ubuntu, but the set-up instructions will work fine for any Debian based distribution. (If you want to install Discourse for…