Background The self-hosting documentation for Discourse is excellent, and the installation process went smoothly. However, I encountered issues when deploying my server in mainland China, behind the Great Firewall . Issue Whenever I run ./launcher rebuild app, the process fails due to network restri…

My issue was resolved by adding the following line to my app.yaml file: - "templates/web.china.template.yml" If you’re facing a similar issue, you might find this article helpful: Discourse Installation Guide .

Selfhost Discourse in Mainland China Under the GFW

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CocoQuark (Coconut Flavored Quark) January 14, 2025, 11:15am 2

Have you looked at 🇨🇳 Discourse Official Install Guide | Discourse 云平台安装? It covers typical issues when installing Discourse in Mainland China.

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Upgrade from within China fails due to git issues Installation	18	3628	July 12, 2023
Discourse Rebuild Failed to Bootstrap Installation	6	506	August 31, 2023
Long pause in standard installation of command : cd /var/www/discourse && su discourse -c 'bundle install --retry 3 --jobs 4' Installation	6	807	July 4, 2023
Failing to rebuild app on Discourse since May 7 Installation	14	2081	June 13, 2019
Launcher rebuild app Failure Installation	7	554	February 6, 2024

Selfhost Discourse in Mainland China Under the GFW

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