If i’m not posting this in the right section, i’m sorry. I’m using Oracle Free tier as my server, and i have a Ubuntu installation with a couple of docker containers running. I’m using Caddy, also running in docker, as rproxy for all my containers. Now i need to setup Discourse as the last piece …

This might be helpful: [image] Use Caddy instead of NGINX as your reverse proxy Self-Hosting [image] Here are some notes about how I got my test Discourse instance running with Caddy Server . Cool stuff about Caddy: They use Discourse smile Free SSL wit…

I think that got me on the right track. I’m not sure i’m pointing to the right path though. in my app.yml I have set my volumes here: And i can build my Discourse without problems. volumes: - volume: host: /opt/docker/docker_configs/discourse/shared/standalone guest: /shared - vol…

How are you starting caddy? [image] Use Caddy instead of NGINX as your reverse proxy -v /var/discourse/shared/standalone:/sock \ This line from the original topic needs to be adjusted for your directory for this to work. Unless the correct directory is mounted in caddy container, it can not …

Arh, you mean that i need to mount the discourse sock to caddy? that makes sense! I tried something else last night however. When discourse is started, it is running in a docker bridge network. If i just add the docker-default network that all my other containers, including Caddy, is in, then i ca…

This might be helpful: [image] Use Nginx Proxy Manager to manage multiple sites with Discourse Sysadmins EDIT: @pfaffman re-wrote this as a standalone topic from what @tophee had written earlier. It’s not yet tested by me, and I’ve moved around Chris’s words,…

Yes! it works! I had to change a couple of things, but it is almost as the first thread you linked. In Caddyfile i had to write it like this Which is a bit different than written in the thread. forum.mydomain.com { reverse_proxy unix//sock/nginx.http.sock import cloudflare } and I’ve added …

[image] Tinsmith6176: a bit different than written in the thread. That is probably due to upstream changes in Caddy itself. The image linked in the topic still works with the provided configuration afaik.

Need help setting up discourse using Caddy as rproxy

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itsbhanusharma (Bhanu Sharma) September 8, 2022, 12:50pm 2

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