Uninstalling Discourse - Need Help

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Timothee_scheufler sought help after attempting to uninstall Discourse from their VPS, only to find the forum still accessible. They initially believed the uninstallation failed due to using the wrong path and deleted the Discourse folder, but the site remained visible in Chrome and showed an error in Edge. Pfaffman suggested the issue might be browser caching or a lingering Docker container, advising to run docker rm app. Timothee later realized the problem was that Discourse was installed on a different VPS than the one where they were trying to deploy a new application, leading to confusion. Timothee_scheufler concluded the issue was self-inflicted due to a mix-up between VPS instances, and pfaffman humorously noted that such mistakes are common, often involving DNS or misconfigured environments.

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Hello,
I had a Discourse Instance running on my vps which worked great. Now I don’t need Discourse anymore and wanted to uninstall to make space for another application I’d like to run. I tried the commands from a post here in this Forum and thought it had worked. After reopening the Domain, I saw that it hadn’t worked (Forum still accesible). Then I saw that I had used another path for Discourse, so the commands haven’t worked. Then I just went ahead and deleted the right Discourse folder. :man_facepalming:
Now I have the following Problem:
When opening my Site in Chrome I can still see my board and not the new application I installed.
When opening the site in Edge, it just gives me an Error “The Site is not accesible”.

Where did I messed up and how can I fix this?

Thanks!

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That’s cached by your browser.

Discourse is gone. Nothing has replaced it.

You might make sure that you

docker rm app

To make sure that the docker container doesn’t restart when you reboot

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That’s what I thought too at first, but I already deleted the cache.

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Problem solved… :man_facepalming: :man_facepalming: :man_facepalming:
Discourse was literally installed on my other VPS then the one I was installing the new application to.
So nothing was actually deleted and I was really dumb…

Thanks for your help!

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Yeah. Been there. Done that. It’s always DNS.