Discourse: OSS Forum Software

How to self-hosting open source forum software – Discourse, and use external PG managed by Pigsty

To setup an open-source forum Discourse, you need to adjust the default app.yml config, focusing on the SMTP part of the configuration.

Discourse Config Example
templates:
  - "templates/web.china.template.yml"
  - "templates/postgres.template.yml"
  - "templates/redis.template.yml"
  - "templates/web.template.yml"
  - "templates/web.ratelimited.template.yml"
## Uncomment these two lines if you wish to add Lets Encrypt (https)
# - "templates/web.ssl.template.yml"
# - "templates/web.letsencrypt.ssl.template.yml"
expose:
  - "80:80"   # http
  - "443:443" # https
params:
  db_default_text_search_config: "pg_catalog.english"
  db_shared_buffers: "768MB"
env:
  LC_ALL: en_US.UTF-8
  LANG: en_US.UTF-8
  LANGUAGE: en_US.UTF-8
  EMBER_CLI_PROD_ASSETS: 1
  UNICORN_WORKERS: 4
  DISCOURSE_HOSTNAME: forum.pigsty
  DISCOURSE_DEVELOPER_EMAILS: '[email protected],[email protected]'
  DISCOURSE_SMTP_ENABLE_START_TLS: false
  DISCOURSE_SMTP_AUTHENTICATION: login
  DISCOURSE_SMTP_OPENSSL_VERIFY_MODE: none
  DISCOURSE_SMTP_ADDRESS: smtpdm.server.address
  DISCOURSE_SMTP_PORT: 80
  DISCOURSE_SMTP_USER_NAME: [email protected]
  DISCOURSE_SMTP_PASSWORD: "<password>"
  DISCOURSE_SMTP_DOMAIN: mail.pigsty.cc
volumes:
  - volume:
      host: /var/discourse/shared/standalone
      guest: /shared
  - volume:
      host: /var/discourse/shared/standalone/log/var-log
      guest: /var/log

hooks:
  after_code:
    - exec:
        cd: $home/plugins
        cmd:
          - git clone https://github.com/discourse/docker_manager.git
run:
  - exec: echo "Beginning of custom commands"
  # - exec: rails r "SiteSetting.notification_email='[email protected]'"
  - exec: echo "End of custom commands"

Then launch Discourse with the following command:

./launcher rebuild app

Last modified 2024-06-25: translate en software tutorial (b37df0f)