Let’s say I want to move my Discourse site from one Amazon EC2 instance (e.g. t2.micro) to a larger instance (e.g. t2.medium), what is the correct procedure for this? The only option I know about is: Backup the existing site Install Discourse on the new server Configure Discourse using temporary …

Yes, you still need to set up Discourse, but you can just use the same app.yml that you use on the old instance (or type them in to discourse-setup if that’s easier for you). But you have to have all of those values for a running Discourse anyway, so it’s not “temporary” values, but the values. The…

Move Discourse to a new server without setting up the web UI first?

Installation

pfaffman (Jay Pfaffman) January 24, 2020, 10:59am 6

Sounds like a bug

Yes. You can do that.

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Move Discourse to a new server without setting up the web UI first?

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