Rerunning the Discourse setup wizard

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:bookmark: This guide explains how to rerun the setup wizard for your Discourse forum, allowing you to update your site’s basic configuration in one place.

:person_raising_hand: Required user level: Administrator

The setup wizard is a valuable tool designed to simplify the process of setting up and configuring your Discourse forum. As an administrator, you have the flexibility to rerun this wizard whenever you need to make changes to your site’s fundamental settings.

Accessing the setup wizard

To rerun the setup wizard:

  1. Log in to your Discourse site as an administrator.
  2. In your browser’s address bar, append /wizard to your site’s URL: https://discourse.example.com/wizard

You can rerun the Setup Wizard as many times as necessary without any restrictions.

What the wizard covers

The Setup Wizard consists of a single “Getting started” step that lets you configure the following core settings:

  • Community name — the title of your site.
  • Language — the default locale for your site.
  • Visibility — whether your community is public (visible to everyone) or private (login required).
  • Registration — whether anyone can sign up, or if registration is invite-only.
  • Approve members — whether new member accounts must be approved by moderators before they can participate.

The wizard URL is: https://discourse.example.com/wizard/steps/setup

Once you’ve made your changes, click the “Let’s go!” button to save your settings. Your site will reload with the updated configuration.

Beyond the wizard

The wizard covers only the most essential settings. For more advanced configuration — including logos, colors, fonts, and other site settings — use the admin panel at https://discourse.example.com/admin.

Troubleshooting

If you encounter issues with certain settings not taking effect after running the wizard, try the following steps:

  1. Clear your browser’s cache and cookies.
  2. Log out and log back in to your Discourse site.
  3. If the issue persists, check your site settings directly in the admin panel rather than using the wizard.

For more information on clearing browser cache and cookies, you can refer to this external guide.

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Hi Everyone,
I want to skip some steps during setup. Please can anyone let me know how can I remove some steps.

Thanks in Advance
Vaibhav Dwivedi

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Why not next click next?

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Hi @pfaffman, Thanks for quick reply.
There are by default 14 steps in wizard setup, but I want only 6 of them. How can I remove or hide others ?

Vaibhav D.

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Just edit the settings in the system settings rather than the wizard?

Write a plugin?

How often are you going to do this? It would seem that we have already spent more time discussing this than it would take to click next ten times.

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It can happen that, as apparently occurred to @natefinch at other post, sometimes you can’t make work categories as your default home page. It happened to me, as well! Then, or you use the solution offered at this same thread, or you… erase the cache and cookies!! :sweat_smile:

For the people who doesn’t know what this means I was going to explain to you why this matters at all, but I prefer to let other people do it. Why to do the same thing twice or more times when is already done? This guy, Leo, can explaining to you just fine.