Hello World, I came across Discourse in another community forum I use and realized that it may have the possibility for a project I want to work on. I have crawled around the Meta forum here researched the capabilities and read a variety of articles. What I have not found is any getting started gu…

If You’re installing discourse on example.com then you have to verify & use example.com not discourse.example.com

Hey there, All the guides etc are in the howto category.

This guide specifies using discourse.example.com for install. Can I just use the domain example.com or can I change the subdomain to widget.example.com ?

You can use anything as long as it is a FQDN E.g. Domain.tld My.domain.tld This.is.my.domain.tld

So in this document discourse/docs/INSTALL-email.md at main · discourse/discourse · GitHub where is states the following Please note that in any email provider, you must verify and use the subdomain, e.g. discourse.example.com . If you verify the domain only, e.g. example.com , mail will not be…

Where should a Noob start?

Support

Stephen (Stephen) May 14, 2018, 8:15pm 2

https://github.com/discourse/discourse/blob/master/docs/INSTALL-cloud.md

Start there.

Everything else is here on meta, browse by category.

Topic		Replies	Views
Question about Subdomain Self-hosting	1	564	September 15, 2020
Installing Discourse as a subdomains Self-hosting	6	3353	June 28, 2017
Category Subdomains - Alternate Subdomain possibilities Self-hosting	1	604	July 25, 2019
Is it possible to install Discourse on the same domain of your main website WordPress	3	2120	September 8, 2019
Generals Subfolder recommendations and tips Self-hosting	8	2070	November 1, 2016

Where should a Noob start?

Related topics