VPS Installation Failures: Navigating Through Discourse Setup Hurdles

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Hello!
I now have the same exact issue when installing on a fresh VPS. Tried Debian 12, AlmaLinux, no dice.

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Use Ubuntu for VPS

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Okay, will try that! Thanks for the recommendation!

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Nope, three different systems and can’t install it. :man_facepalming: Also with Ubuntu

Pups::ExecError: cd /var/www/discourse && su discourse -c 'bundle exec rake db:migrate' failed with return #<Process::Status: pid 3311 exit 1>
Location of failure: /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/3.2.0/gems/pups-1.2.1/lib/pups/exec_command.rb:132:in `spawn'
exec failed with the params {"cd"=>"$home", "hook"=>"db_migrate", "cmd"=>["su discourse -c 'bundle exec rake db:migrate'"]}
bootstrap failed with exit code 1
** FAILED TO BOOTSTRAP ** please scroll up and look for earlier error messages, there may be more than one.
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Can you paste the whole rebuild log here?

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Yeah…
I uploaded the whole log to pastebin here:

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It’s not the same exact issue as that topic was about ARM64 and you are running in a classic x64 CPU.

URI::InvalidURIError: URI must be ascii only “https://au\u0123iks.lv/images/discourse-logo-sketch.png” (URI::InvalidURIError)

What did you enter for your forum URL? URLs can only be ASCII and it looks like you entered a Unicode character? Do you have a punycode domain?

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Yes, this was a Punnycode domain. I didn’t think about that, my mistake.
Thanks for help, won’t bother again! :man_facepalming:

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Using the encoded punycode values should work out of the box. Let me know if that works for you.