Hi, I’m trying to make a two separate Discourse forums (including users, topics, categories, etc.). However, when I get a new instance and try to host it with the same domain, but a different subdomain, it takes my current Discourse instance and makes it inaccessible. For example, if my current Di…

Or alternatively into [image] Run other websites on the same machine as Discourse Self-Hosting @pfaffman edited this heavily 2022.02.24. Blame me if it’s broken. If you want to run other websites on the same machine as Discourse, you need to set up an extra N…

Thank you for your suggestions everyone. I was able to create a second Discourse using a combination of these two websites: Run other websites on the same machine as Discourse ( @angus 's response was especially helpful) https://chowdri.medium.com/how-to-install-multiple-discourse-on-one-server-150…

Why not give it a try with @pfaffman ’s tutorial (that @itsbhanusharma shared above)? It will just handle the certificates. I’ve actually followed it a few times now and I’m still in awe how it simplifies the matter! Truth be told it has a downside in that you will get greedy and spin up an additio…

Thank you for the suggestion. I’m giving it a try, but I’m having trouble with a couple of things in the guide: I can’t seem to find the Database password (or what it is even used for in the file) My app.yml file did not originally contain an after_postgres section, so I added one under hooks …

I actually always did it for a two-container setup and it works fine for that. You can easily get this by installing Discourse with ./discourse-setup --two-container and then adjust both web_only.yml and data.yml If you want to try again with just one container, but the steps are unclear for that, …

No I didn’t use tabs and I’m pretty sure the copy-paste from the guide didn’t put any in (though I only did a brief check). I’d like to avoid doing a two container setup if possible, so I will make a post in the guide asking for help. Thank you very much for your assistance!

Multiple subdomain instances of Discourse at the same domain?

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Multiple subdomain instances of Discourse at the same domain?

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