Hello, I am installing discourse on my Ubuntu machine and i am following this article https://meta.discourse.org/t/install-discourse-on-ubuntu-for-development/14727 but i am gettine issue on below command: bundle exec rake db:create i am sharing screenshot issue with Redis as i have already instal…

Is the Redis server running in the background? What’s the output of rails runner "puts Discourse.redis.info['redis_version']" ?

Hi @Falco , Thank you for coming back to me..very appreciated I did sorted out the problem as you said we need to start the redis service so i did start and it was working good then i did add next all command as per documentation but on db:migrate command i got the issue as invalid access. Please …

[image] ksavani: on db:migrate command i got the issue as invalid access. Have you set your database access with Install Discourse on Ubuntu or Debian for Development ?

Hi @Falco Yes i did, I use the command sudo -u postgres createuser -s "krishna.savani" and you can check my second screenshot also. I did try my many ways but still saying invalid access.

[image] ksavani: I use the command sudo -u postgres createuser -s "krishna.savani" But that not exactly the command the guide tells you to run, is it? You need to create a PostgreSQL superuser with the same name as the Linux user that will run the migrations. You even went out of your way to…

@Falco I am sorry about blur user name on screenshot, here is the screenshot you can check my username [Screenshot from 2022-09-15 18-16-55 (1)] you can see its the same name for both Linux user and PostgresSQL user.

Try sudo su su postgres psql ALTER USER "krishna.savani" WITH SUPERUSER; \q exit exit psql -d discourse_development If that works, you can exit the psql repl and proceed with the migration.

@Falco I did try all the command..then i did add command of migration, but still showing as rake aborted! Discourse::InvalidAccess: Discourse::InvalidAccess here are both screenshot, [Screenshot from 2022-09-15 20-35-13] [Screenshot from 2022-09-14 20-41-00 (2)]

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Falco (Falco) September 15, 2022, 1:59pm 4

Have you set your database access with Install Discourse on Ubuntu or Debian for Development ?

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