Forse sapete che ho creato la mia prima community Discourse oltre due settimane fa su AWS, utilizzando l’immagine AMI di Bitnami, che ovviamente non è l’installazione supportata. Come previsto, ho riscontrato dei problemi e ho fatto del mio meglio per risolverli, ma la situazione è andata peggiorando. L’ultimo problema è stato un errore 500 (errore del server) che impediva l’accesso alla mia community. Ho dovuto riavviare il server e, come un lampo, ho perso tutto ciò che avevo costruito nelle prime due settimane. È una quantità enorme di contenuti, credetemi!
Non sto piangendo sul latte versato (ovviamente, questa community ha avvertito più volte di seguire le istruzioni di installazione raccomandate, cosa che la mia versione pentita farà ora ), ma non vorrei ricominciare da zero con il database e i contenuti. In sintesi, sarei grato se qualcuno potesse aiutarmi con informazioni concrete su come recuperare i dettagli del database e tutte le informazioni necessarie da integrare nella mia nuova installazione, in modo da conservare tutti i log e i dettagli degli utenti registrati e le loro attività. In questo modo, nulla andrebbe realmente perso nel processo. Per me sarebbe un’ottima opportunità di apprendimento.
Un punto importante da notare: continuerò a ospitare la community su AWS. Esiste infatti un processo di installazione raccomandato che prevede Docker, e inoltre non posso sprecare il mio credito di 1.000 dollari. Quindi, sarei felice se tutte le informazioni fossero adattate alla piattaforma AWS, utilizzando uno dei loro servizi che renda questo viaggio davvero soddisfacente.
E non fate rumore: la mia community in crescita è offline da tre giorni. Devo quindi salvare la mia reputazione. Mettiamoci al lavoro, amici!
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?
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.
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
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?
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?
Install a new community using the guide I now shared its link or
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!
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:
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.
), ma non vorrei ricominciare da zero con il database e i contenuti. In sintesi, sarei grato se qualcuno potesse aiutarmi con informazioni concrete su come recuperare i dettagli del database e tutte le informazioni necessarie da integrare nella mia nuova installazione, in modo da conservare tutti i log e i dettagli degli utenti registrati e le loro attività. In questo modo, nulla andrebbe realmente perso nel processo. Per me sarebbe un’ottima opportunità di apprendimento.