Private Self Hosting Question

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I really enjoy using discourse on different forums I joined!

Learning it is open source, I want to make a private family server with discourse, but I am running into a few issues.
It seems while using docker discourse has its own management script that needs to be run as root.
How would I go about adding it behind a reverse proxy container that doesn’t connect to the internet (only accessed through vpn)?
Is there a way to disable email verification for such a use case?

I am aware that this isn’t the target use case for discourse. Has anyone tried setting it up for a private company/family purpose ?

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Not a direct answer, but note you can deploy to the open web and make your Discourse 100% private and invite only.

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I didn’t know that was an option.
Even so I have the vpn setup and other services already up.
I like segregating from the web on the network level when I have the option.

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I have the discourse installation in a KVM VM with docker, with proxmox VE for virtualization. Access from Internet uses haproxy for ssl termination, that allows to expose only one IP address, even for different services on the Internal network.

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