I had a small discourse forum for a few years and it works well. I set up autobackups, but didn’t update discourse version for a long time. Server died, but I have backup. Backup is from the old discourse version, about a 2 years ago. When I’m trying to install the newest version and restore from b…

You can just access the themes from the admin interface. You can first disable them all and then turn them on one at a time (or whatever).

There is no critical errors in ./launcher logs app output, but forum doesn’t work. Almost all buttons doesn’t work, there is no topics, and html is looking strange (buggy start page repeats itself and can be scrolled to the bottom without limit). I’m not professional tech guy, and I hope you can te…

Does anyone know, where I can find reliable logs?

Are there any errors in /logs route of your forum?

Problem is that I can’t access /logs - “this page doesn’t exist or private”. And I cannot log in to check it.

Try using the admin login at https://forum.example.com/u/admin-login [1] . You learn something new everyday! ↩︎

Thanks for link, but it won’t work. It sends email, but I don’t have smtp server and using this plugin: Disable Email Verification for Discourse Plugin Maybe, some console commands on server are possible to check what happened?

AFAIK that plugin is broken. You may not want to use it (unless you are using the remake?).

There was no different solution to allow users create accounts without email confirmation, when I created a server. Maybe it’s broken now, but I’m trying at least to restore the old version of forum.

Currently I cannot access any data from forum, even I have a backup. Only forum logo and tags is shown, and all buttons are unusable.

Ouch, that complicates things. Could you try what is mentioned here to get some logs? [immagine] Where does Discourse store and show logs? Self-Hosting When troubleshooting issues or errors with Discourse it is important you look at your logs. Here’s a listing …

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NateDhaliwal (Nate Dhaliwal) 28 Agosto 2025, 10:09am 12

Ahi, questo complica le cose. Potresti provare quello che viene menzionato qui per ottenere alcuni log?

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