Hello community, I am feeling really bad that I didn‘t find this information, which I consider as really basic. Actually it is not about getting it up and running for the first time, but this category appears to me as closest cousin to my question. Q: how to upgrade an existing installation throug…

[image] Thomas Schlosser: Q: how to upgrade an existing installation through Docker? [image] Manually update Discourse and Docker image to latest Self-Hosting If you self-host Discourse, you occasionally need to run a manual update via the command line to get the la…

Thank you! Are the steps the same compared to first install? Do you know some how-to on these steps? FYI: I ran the software update from inside the admin panel - this couldn’t complete and killed my installation. Rollback did not work. Thx Thomas

Did you enter the three commands in the black box near the top of the topic linked above? Did something other than upgrading your site happen? If you did a standard install , then it is the answer to your question. It is the howto that answers it. Those instructions are also in the document that you…

I did the standard installation, but this was nearly 2 yrs ago. I am sure that the upgrade is similar but not identical to the first installation (e.g. not running the config assistant, stopping containers or whatever might be different). I don‘t want lose anything. (Although I did some learning wit…

[image] Thomas Schlosser: Sorry, I don‘t know what you meant with your question „Did you enter the three commands…“ Did you click the link in the first reply that says “How do I manually update Discourse and docker image to latest”? It includes this: [image] Manually update Discourse and D…

Oops I missed that this is a link. I will work through it and your additional hints - thank you very much so far!!

I wanted to thank @md-misko and @pfaffman for very valuable input. A couple of text-snippets and some important links saved in my library. And my problem was solved with the „git pull && launcher rebuild app“ sequence. I forgot how complicated it looks, when watching the build process. Thomas

[image] Thomas Schlosser: I forgot how complicated it looks, when watching the build process. Fortunately, you can usually just close your eyes. :wink:

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