Hello, I have a Ubuntu 16.04 VPS with Apache running two websites. I want to setup discourse but it seems like it will be a docker container (concept I am new to),. How do I go about giving discourse a subdomain like forum.example.com then ensuring I can install SSL certs with Lets’ Encrypt? Foll…

[image] Run other websites on the same machine as Discourse Self-Hosting @pfaffman edited this heavily 2022.02.24. Blame me if it’s broken. If you want to run other websites on the same machine as Discourse, you need to set up an extra NGINX or HAProxy proxy i…

I am using Apache, so I would create another VHost in /var/www ? Or would I create a vhost and set it’s default folder as /var/discourse ?

You’ll need to translate the instructions in the topic @Falco linked to from nginx to Apache.

Hmmm, I don’t know anything about nginx but I can try I guess

Gets pretty much it, but you configure the host add a reverse proxy.

so I would setup a VHost /var/www/discourse.domain.com and install in discourse in there rather than /var/discourse And then add a reverse proxy?

No, you don’t setup a vhost anywhere on the host system. You proxy everything for the Discourse subdomain into the container.

There’s a (in my opinion) slightly easier alternative: Configure your Apache to listen on a different port. Set up nginx as a reverse proxy as described above. Set up nginx to proxy the non-Discourse traffic to Apache’s port. Note that if you want HTTPS (and you do want that), in that case, you’l…

I have no idea how to do that. All I have done is setup two sites with apache vhost and now want to add discourse

Instructions for steps :two: and :three: have already been posted by @Falco above: [image] Run other websites on the same machine as Discourse Self-Hosting @pfaffman edited this heavily 2022.02.24. Blame me if it’s broken. If you want to run other websites on…

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fefrei (Felix Freiberger) April 22, 2017, 7:13pm 11

Instructions for steps and have already been posted by @Falco above:

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