So I created a backup of Discourse on my old VPS (I’ve now done a fresh reinstall). I tried running discourse enable_restore and discourse restore [file] as recommended here , however I keep receiving back discourse: command not found. So instead, I planned to do an install, register and restore Di…

Looks like Cloudflare is interfering with your Discourse. I suggest you disable the Cloudflare proxy for your domain (grey cloud icon instead of orange on Cloudflare) or at least disable the protections which are causing the issues.

And for the email issue: After restoring a backup outgoing emails are disabled. You need to change the disable_emails site setting. You can do the same from the rails console if you can’t login because your account isn’t active. cd /var/discourse ./launcher enter app rails c SiteSetting.disable_em…

[image] ethhaqn: the grey cloud is already on for my main domain and mail subdomain Is the gray cloud on for your Discourse subdomain?

I don’t have a subdomain for Discourse, it’s just my main domain so yeah.

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ethhaqn (Ethan) April 19, 2022, 3:59pm 3

Hi, the grey cloud is already on for my main domain and mail subdomain.

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