Rename custom domain of hosted Discourse forum

[Jan_Curn]

Hi there, we have a hosted Discourse forum running at https://forum.apifier.com/ and we’d like to rename it to https://forum.apify.com/ Ideally without disruption for our readers.

Please can you advice how to do this?

[dax (Daniela)]

Change the domain name or rename my Discourse?

This guide is for self-hosted Discourse instances that were installed using our installation guide on GitHub. If you are hosted by Discourse, please see Configure your domain name for hosted Discourse for specific instructions. You may eventually want to change the domain name of your Discourse instance, from say =BEFORE= → =AFTER= Let’s get started. Set the TTL for your DNS low, and in advance You need to let everyone know that the domain is about to change, so change the TTL f…

Because you are hosted by Discourse I don’t know if you can do it yourself or if you need to ask to the Discourse team to do it for you.

[Jan_Curn]

Thanks for sharing this. Yeah, we have hosted forum and there’s no way to perform this change ourselves. And it seems this is the only way to get support from Discourse.

[jomaxro (Joshua Rosenfeld)]

Hi Jan,

I sent you a PM.