Discourse: OSS Forum Software
How to self-hosting open source forum software – Discourse, and use external PG managed by Pigsty
Module:
Categories:
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
Feedback
Was this page helpful?
Glad to hear it! Please tell us how we can improve.
Sorry to hear that. Please tell us how we can improve.