Démarrer une nouvelle communauté Discourse avec une ancienne base de données

Bonjour à tous, bonne journée.

Vous avez peut-être su que j’ai créé ma première communauté Discourse il y a plus de deux semaines sur AWS, en utilisant leur image AMI Bitnami, qui n’est bien sûr pas l’installation prise en charge. Comme prévu, j’ai rencontré des problèmes et j’ai fait de mon mieux pour les résoudre, mais ils ne faisaient que s’accumuler. Le dernier problème était une erreur 500 (erreur serveur) qui empêchait l’affichage de ma communauté. J’ai dû redémarrer mon serveur et, comme un éclair, j’ai tout perdu de ce que j’avais construit au cours des deux premières semaines. C’est beaucoup de contenu, croyez-moi !

Je ne pleure pas sur le lait renversé (évidemment, cette communauté comporte suffisamment d’avertissements concernant l’utilisation des détails d’installation recommandés, ce que mon moi repentant fera maintenant :grinning:), mais je ne voudrais pas tout recommencer à zéro, notamment en ce qui concerne la base de données et le contenu. En résumé, je serais ravi si quelqu’un pouvait me fournir des informations concrètes sur la façon d’extraire les détails de la base de données et toutes les informations nécessaires à intégrer dans ma nouvelle installation, afin de conserver tous les journaux et détails des utilisateurs inscrits ainsi que leurs activités. Ainsi, rien ne serait réellement perdu dans l’ensemble du processus. Ce serait une courbe d’apprentissage pour moi.

Un point important à noter : j’hébergerai toujours sur AWS. Il existe au moins un processus d’installation recommandé impliquant Docker, et puis, je ne peux pas laisser mes 1 000 $ de crédit partir en fumée. Je serais donc ravi que toutes les informations soient adaptées à l’utilisation sur leur plateforme, avec l’un de leurs services, afin de rendre ce merveilleux voyage rentable.

Et ne criez pas trop fort : ma communauté en pleine croissance est hors ligne depuis trois jours. Je dois donc sauver ma réputation. Alors, mettons-nous au travail, les amis !

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If you have a discourse backup file, then you can restore it to a new server fairly easily. Do you have a backup file?

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No, I don’t. Barely added or configured anything. But is there still a way possible?

I am not familiar with the Bitnami image, so I can’t say for sure. Do you still have access to the Postgres database in some way?

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No, I don’t too. But I can get access to it or find my way around it. And besides, I think I took a screenshot when I initially installed the software but not later. So can any of this?

  • Backup old site, download backup
  • bring up new site
  • Restore from backup
  • ???
  • ???
  • PROFIT11111!!!

If this isn’t possible, don’t use unsupported install methods.

Hello @robbyoconnor, I think I understand your point to the third one but got lost with the multiple ??? And Profit 11111… If you don’t mind, can you be more specific? I’ll appreciate.

Safe to ignore everything after #3

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My recommendation here would be to restart your community from scratch with a supported install and ensure you enable automatic backups to s3 this time

I appreciate that losing two weeks is not fun, but given you are struggling to get access to your data… there is not much we can do

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Hi Sam, thanks for your candid reply. I think I might just do that and throw some apologies in the air to the people who started with me for the fun 2 weeks we had. Besides, Discourse has been fun, though.

Yeah, nice opinion. But think I’d be taking @Sam 's opinion. That’d be ‘too long’ a try for something that may not work. So starting a new one from scratch would be better. Just wish I had stared earlier than wasting half a week hoping to hold enough water in a basket.

Went through the supported installation details for AWS, but unfortunately, it’s not the official documen from the Discourse Team. And then surfed through the web and was able to come up with this that gives detailed instruction about installing Discourse on AWS using supported instances from Discourse. So just for the asking and staying on the safer side, is this install method going to give me the supported Discourse software? I’d love to hear your opinion, @Sam?

I’m not sure if you have actually looked at the official Discourse install guide which is the only supported install method I’ve heard of.

Other users have referred you to it in your other topic, e.g. this reply:
https://meta.discourse.org/t/can-not-configure-my-bitnami-discourse-instance-to-send-out-mails/101618/2?u=remah

You will see on other topics that AWS/Bitnami installs are not supported although people may still be able to help you, e.g. as in this topic:

https://meta.discourse.org/t/just-installed-discourse-on-aws/86146?u=remah

FYI, here is some background on the AWS install guide that you found.

The blog owner is a user here, @stroupaloop, although I haven’t seen him posting for a while.
He had a couple of topics on AWS that I read when i first joined:

Wow, thanks a bunch for this Remah. I actually saw an installation guide here on Meta about installing on Amazon; not with Bitnami, but from scratch. So whilst I wouldn’t call that the official install guide, I believe the installation process still installs Discourse the normal way it was meant to be installed-with Docker. The installation guide is here on Meta, and will link to it once I’m done with this post. (I’m on mobile)
Edit: This is the install guide I was referring to.
So a quick one:
What do you think?

  1. Install a new community using the guide I now shared its link or
  2. Starting a New Digital Ocean droplet.
    And note: I have over $1k in my Amazon credit. The only reason I’d paid for that is because of Discourse hosting for about two or three years, depending on the resources I use.
    But paraphrasing the question properly, I’d ask: If I install using the guide by @Frez, is it going to come with support here on Meta if I run into trouble? Believe me, I’d prefer to get help here than from any other place; including Bitnami, which I have now ditched. Better to source for help from the source!

Thank you for your time. I appreciate!

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Yes, David, I have access to the postgres database.

I can’t say what will get support. You’ll have to get that from the Discourse team when they’re back in the day time.

While you wait for a reply from the Discourse team, then why not try out option 1. If everything installs fine then you can check that it works perfectly before going public. Option 2 would be your fallback if option 1 doesn’t work OK and you cannot resolve the issues.

One caveat is that the guide is over two years old - last edited April 2016. Since then there has been at least one problem identified. This problem with SES email was resolved but I don’t know if other problems are out there:

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Thanks again Remah for your input. You’ve done me a whole lot of good, you know? Glad to have you here.

The only setup we support is this one: discourse/docs/INSTALL-cloud.md at main · discourse/discourse · GitHub

Typically people do that on a digital ocean droplet, but it should work the same on any linux server.

The problem with AWS is the complexity - finding the right way to set things up is very tricky. Is your AWS credit valid for AWS Lightsail? That provides a ‘Digital-ocean-like’ experience on AWS: Virtual Private Server and Web Hosting–Amazon Lightsail—Amazon Web Services

There is no requirement to use SES, you can use another recommended provider, even if your server is hosted on AWS.

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The guide @habeycole referred to assumes that SES is used. Another reason why that guide needs an update.

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Yes, my credit is eligible to work with Lightsail. Think it’d be better using that then. But think I’ll also do EC2 install and check for which works best for me in the next two days before I eventually settle for the better. I appreciate the feedback I’ve received from all.

And to note: I possibly won’t be using SES for sending mails because of the restrictions. Mailgun is my preferred choice.