We’re moving to a new DigitalOcean droplet and tried using the marketplace image. When running the setup script, it fails early on because our domain name is still pointing to our current instance in production. I need to get this new installation up and running so I can restore its backup and then…

Migrating Discourse from one DigitalOcean droplet to another without downtime

pfaffman (Jay Pfaffman) December 30, 2020, 12:50am 13

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