No longer seeing .../finish-installation/register

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I installed discourse yesterday but stopped the process at the …/finish-installation/register screen because I wanted to go ahead and install wordpress first. Today I wanted to come back to disourse and finish the installation but http://forum.mydomain.net/finish-installation/register now gives me “Oops! That page doesn’t exist or is private.” Should I just register via the “Signup” button or is that a different process?

I am assuming that this has nothing to do with the issue described here because I originally did see the finish-installation screen and because the issue has been fixed in december.

I also tried http://forum.mydomain.net/wizard but that brought me to the dafault welcome post.

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Problem solved: the finish-installation page reappeared after I rebooted the droplet.

If someone can explain what happened, please do (always keen to understand).

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This happened to me too. Here’s my theory:

  • Discourse performed its daily backup sometime before you came back to finish the installation.

  • A successful backup creates a system message.

  • Creating a system message updates the user record for the Discourse system user.

  • Updating a system user, who is an admin, clears the flag to show the installation screen.

  • If the flag is not set, /finish-installation/register displays an “Oops! That page doesn’t exist or is private” page.

  • Rebooting the server instance sets the flag again if there is only one admin user, which is the system user at this point.

Log of database sleuthing I did:

“The backup was successful” message:

discourse=> select created_at, updated_at, substring(raw, 0, 25) from posts order by id desc limit 1;
-[ RECORD 1 ]-------------------------
created_at | 2017-02-11 03:38:05.02299
updated_at | 2017-02-11 03:38:05.02299
substring  | The backup was successfu

System user’s last_posted_at and updated_at:

(not sure about the three-second gap)

discourse=> select created_at, updated_at, last_posted_at from users where id=-1;
-[ RECORD 1 ]--+---------------------------
created_at     | 2017-02-09 09:31:23.724877
updated_at     | 2017-02-11 03:38:08.296426
last_posted_at | 2017-02-11 03:38:05.02299

has_login_hint’s updated_at:

discourse=> select updated_at from site_settings where name='has_login_hint';
-[ RECORD 1 ]--------------------------
updated_at | 2017-02-11 03:38:08.304158
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Is this plausible @eviltrout?

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This is some great detective work and I think the likely cause of this issue.

This should fix it:

https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/e1d358ffbf8550686bd415604899ed35f82fb6a2

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