A user named ratacat is running a Discourse forum for a local nonprofit (a Mycological Association) and lost their DNS name after it expired and was hijacked to redirect to weight loss supplements. They wanted to migrate to a new domain but couldn’t access the admin interface. merefield advised using SSH and running ./launcher rebuild app after editing app.yml, though ratacat initially hit a port 80 conflict. IAmGav offered direct help via private message and successfully restored the site on the new domain 8. ratacat expressed deep gratitude and offered a gift of dried morels — gourmet mushrooms — as a thank-you, noting they’re not for everyone 10. IAmGav politely declined due to high import fees from South Africa but appreciated the gesture. ratacat joked about inviting IAmGav to mushroom hunting in Montana if ever in the area, ending with another heartfelt thanks.
Running a forum for a local nonprofit, the DNS name didn’t get paid for, and got snagged by someone who rerouted it to weight loss supplements =/
So I want to get the forum up and running on a new domain name, but I can’t seem to access the site. I’m going to try just setting the DNS in my local hosts file, that didn’t occur to me until now, and see if I can get to the admin interface.
Any one have any other suggestions? Thanks!
Very easy if you have ssh access to IP.
Just log in as root, reconfigure and rebuild.
I do, sorry it’s been a long time since I set it up, reconfigure is a included script?
Thankyou! I ran discourse-setup as root, and it did lots of things, but at the end when it tried starting discourse, port 80 appeared to already be bound.
/usr/bin/docker: Error response from daemon: driver failed programming external connectivity on endpoint app (5274a3306f48252a89b4fe81103ebe252645b91f15fa205319451aa5bf6c79d7): Error starting userland proxy: listen tcp 0.0.0.0:80: bind: address already in use.
==================== END REBUILD LOG ====================
Failed to rebuild app.
Checking your domain name . . .
And it said failed. I’m wondering if I should have used a different user account instead of root? Or if there’s some process I could kill first?
root is the correct user usually.
Use the rebuild after directly editing app.yml is my suggestion.
./launcher rebuild app
Private Message me with the login details and let me quickly help you.
Take it as my contribution to the non-profilt
Site is running on the new domain.
Issue solved.
Massively appreciate this @IAmGav !!!
Hey Gavin, so the nonprofit is a Mycological Association, which you probably could tell. They are very grateful for your help, and they’d love to send you a thankyou gift if you’re into dried morels! If you’ve never had them, they’re extremely yummy(and expensive) gourmet mushrooms. Also, nobody is offended if you’re pretty sure you’re not into it ;p They’re not for everybody
Thank you for the offer, but I will have to decline. The South African Import Fees are crazy and we cant have nice stuff.
But thank you 
hahaha, no worries, well if you ever find yourself near Montana in the US, come say hi =) We’ll take you out mushroom hunting if you like
Thankyou so much for everything Gavin!