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? [imagem] 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 of…

Restaurar versão específica de backup do Discourse

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

Ai, isso complica as coisas. Você poderia tentar o que é mencionado aqui para obter alguns logs?

Tópico		Respostas	Vistas
Hangs discourse and discourse restore FAILED Self-hosting	24	2184	26 Agosto , 2020
How can I get the current version information from my backup? Support	14	383	31 Maio , 2025
Problem when updating Discourse Forum Self-hosting unsupported-install	20	2284	29 Junho , 2023
Discourse failed to backup on stable Support	34	3176	16 Novembro , 2016
Restore from old version to a new version of discourse failed Self-hosting	16	2619	16 Dezembro , 2019

Restaurar versão específica de backup do Discourse

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