Install discourse together with Apache websites

[blades (Gio)]

Hi to all,

I used to have a fully working discourse installation in a server.
Now I decided to restore my discourse backup at my apache web-server but it seems not possible.
I read and tried a lot of sollutions through the meta but nothing worked.
Does anybody have time to help. Thank you in advance.

What I have right now is a restored discourse installation with https enabled but the vhost config file or the apache config file are not setup correctly and it shows error, of course the discourse is not showing up. (I installed the discourse having disabled the apache2 service untill the installation was done).

*The installation is working fine as long the apache is disabled

[neounix (Dark Matter)]

@blades

Now I decided to restore my discourse backup at my apache web-server but it seems not possible.

Of course it is possible

You can easily set up Apache2 as a reverse proxy in front of Discourse and there are many tutorials on meta which support this.

Here is one example here:

I want to install using a reverse proxy for Apache

I wanted to install using Apache’s reverse proxy and tried to install with a custom port, but it didn’t work. Is there any way to do this? Checking your domain name . . . WARNING: Port 443 of computer does not appear to be accessible using hostname: DOMAIN-NAME WARNING: Connection to DOMAIN-NAME (port 80) also fails. This suggests that DOMAIN-NAME resolves to some IP address that does not reach this machine where you are installing discourse. The first thing to do is confirm that DOMAIN-N…

There are others as well, which can be found searching this site.

For example:

Set up Discourse on a server with existing Apache sites

It’s not as daunting as it sounds! While this may sound a bit intimidating at first, it’s really not all that bad. You basically need to do two things: Install HAProxy (or an alternative) which will take over port 80 and then divert your Discourse traffic to your docker container, and all your other sites to your usual Apache set-up. Let Apache know which port to listen for. While this is only a rough guide, it should do a good job of pointing you in the right direction. Let’s get star…

OBTW, a Google search turns up many hits on this topic.

[blades (Gio)]

You didn’t need to answer this, I already have explained I have followed a couple of tutorials without success.

[blades (Gio)]

I don’t know why but when apache service is started, visiting my discourse forum it redirects to a hvost I have for example takeiteasy.com but the domain for the forum is forum.example.com, they are not the same.

the discourse domain apache conf is

<VirtualHost *:80>
  ServerName forum.example.com
  ServerAlias www.forum.example.com

  <IfModule proxy_module>
    ProxyPreserveHost on
    ProxyPass / http://localhost:8080/
    ProxyPassReverse / http://localhost:8080/
  </IfModule>
</VirtualHost>

if comeone can help

[blades (Gio)]

Topic can close, problem solved.