1. What’s the easiest way to get back up and running? 2. If I’ve had S3 backups, did that cover all the relevant data, including images, metadata, etc? While I did find this article, it hasn’t been updated in 5 years: [image] Upgrade path for very old versions of discourse…

Hi Justin! Great to see you again. As a courtesy since you’ve been using Discourse a looooong time, I’d be happy to pay @pfaffman to help you here. :hugs: Just let him know to contact me for payment.

Hey, @justin_gordon . Is the site up now? If not, can you give me the S3 info? You can get it to me reasonably securely at Redirecting… I trust this isn’t an emergency and getting started Monday is ok? If it is urgent, say so in your message and I’ll try to get started sooner. You can also send me…

OMG @codinghorror , you made my day! @pfaffman , yes, no urgency. I was upgrading to help a request for “how did you make your header so pretty on talksurf.com ” Once we’re back up with talksurf.com , I’ll be sure to put in a few notes here that will be helpful for others.

[image] justin_gordon: I was upgrading to help a request for “how did you make your header so pretty on talksurf.com ” Justin, I’m feeling guilty now :slightly_frowning_face: 3 days into using Discourse and I’m already causing mayhem!

Hi @Paul-Reed and @codinghorror , @pfaffman got me back up and running…did an amazing job! The site is all shiny and new, and Discourse is amazing since everything needed was in the backups! What an amazing bit of tech from Discourse! @pfaffman updated me with the following: A 2-container instal…

Yes, I’d seen that here , but I don’t know where the talksurf image is included in the code. I can see where the background image originates, but not the ‘talksurf’ image on the left, which is floating above the background image. Adding ‘talksurf’ as a image in Settings>Branding>logo results in a m…

@Paul-Reed Maybe see if you can hire @pfaffman to help? I never set this up, so I have no idea.

You can make the header taller with a bit of CSS. I can help you with that but I’d suggest you to create a new Support topic since it’s a bit off-topic here.

[image] Canapin: I’d suggest you to create a new Support topic I have an existing topic which I started a few days ago - Image not filling header container Is it ok to continue there?

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Paul-Reed (Paul) April 4, 2020, 10:04pm 5

Justin, I’m feeling guilty now
3 days into using Discourse and I’m already causing mayhem!

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