Hi All, I am trying to set up Discourse on Windows subsystem for Linux and keep running into this issue. I must have gone through the steps at least 3 times now. I got to the part of starting redis and postgres and successfully got them running. And then I try to run the bundle exec rake db:creat…

No connection to db issue

supermathie (Michael Brown) January 23, 2019, 5:24pm 16

Right - so you need createdb not createuser

sudo -u postgres createdb jamesdev -O jamesdev

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