Dear all, I have a Discourse instance setup by the previous admin on our department web server. I don’t know much about Discourse, but it requires updating and suggests doing cd /var/discourse git pull ./launcher rebuild app But when I cd into /var/discourse I see only the…

[image] ulysses4ever: . The Git repo was inside /var/docker instead of /var/discourse for some reason Aha! That was the recommended place in a time long, long ago (before I started using Discourse 4 years ago). Looks like my “ask the old guy” solution really worked!

How to upgrade if `/var/discourse` has only `shared` and is not git repo

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pfaffman (Jay Pfaffman) July 17, 2020, 12:12am 5

You do this: https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-official-standard-installation/142537

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How to upgrade if `/var/discourse` has only `shared` and is not git repo

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