Is it possible to programmatically configure a new site via the API?

What do you mean by “configure a new site”?

I’m most interested in setting up admin users, running through the steps in the Admin Quick Start Guide , and configuring SSO.

If you’re fluent in Ruby, you can change pretty much everything by simply loading up the Discourse app in a Ruby script: require "/path/to/discourse/config/environment" SiteSetting.must_approve_users = true u = User.new(username: "admin", email: "admin@example.com", ...) u.save! Obviously, this sc…

I’ve come across the same requirement to programatically configure Discourse configuration. Unfortunately for me, i’m not fluent in Ruby. There must be some magic somewhere that I didn’t get yet. In discourse code, at config/site_settings.yml which would be nice we could superseed via configuratio…

Site settings are all in the database so you can easily set overrides by using our object model.

I was hoping there was a way to inject settings so that I dont need to use database to do it. If there is none, its OK :slight_smile:

not following are you looking to provision 1000s of sites :slight_smile: you can change site settings in the UI, if you must pre-populate site settings you can add hook that runs post migration that forces a setting. you can not change defaults.

In fact i’m more interested in ways to declare which authorize URL I can go against for S3 settings. And it seems that if I don’t use Amazon AWS, I can’t do it. (maybe I missed the config key). On a related note, here’s how I provision an app only container .

Programmatic configuration of a new Discourse site

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ahuling (Andrew Huling) 29. Januar 2015 um 18:55 5

Perfect – thank you @elberet!

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