Installer gets stuck

[iqfx (Quint)]

Hello everyone,

I followed the install guide listed on this github page:
https://github.com/discourse/discourse/blob/master/docs/INSTALL-cloud.md

I am trying to install this on a VM running inside of my homelab.
However, everytime i run the discourse-setup script it keeps hanging on “checking your domain name”
I haven’t found a way around this check as I don’t want to botch anything here. My netstat tells me there is nothing else using port 443 or 80 for that matter and i even went as far as to open ports 443 and 80 to my VM. Is there anything I am doing wrong? Or is it only designed to work on a VPS? I’m running ubuntu-server 18.04 LTS

Any help is appreciated!

Kind regards,
IQFX

[itsbhanusharma (Bhanu Sharma)]

That setup script needs a valid FQDN pointing to the public IP of Your VM.

[iqfx (Quint)]

My setup is NAT-ed. I got around it by first editing the container/app.yml, then i did ./loader rebuild app

[maiki]

@iqfx

Or is it only designed to work on a VPS?

Yes, that is correct. Your setup is not what Discourse is designed for.