We are using Discourse as a community forum.
You can access to the forum in https://community.coopdevs.org
We install it from https://github.com/discourse/discourse_docker we can find some instructions in the README, but we want to list the most common actions required to manage our instance:
To access the server we use the user ubuntu. This user can use sudo commands with a password. You can find the password in the Bitwarden.
$ ssh ubuntu@community.coopdevs.org
And you can find the Discourse repository in:
$ cd /var/discourse/
We recommend using the user
rootto run the commands needed… But probably we can change this recommendation…
To restart the app we have two options:
We can restart directly the Docker container using the docker CLI:
ubuntu@community:~$ docker ps
CONTAINER ID IMAGE COMMAND CREATED STATUS PORTS NAMES
c6ad2d4a8782 local_discourse/app "/sbin/boot" 8 days ago Up 27 hours 0.0.0.0:8000->8000/tcp app
ubuntu@community:~$ docker restart c6ad2d4a878
We don’t know if this restart is recommended, but it works and keep the instance healthy. In the case of an unknown app break, it is a good trick.
laucherhttps://github.com/discourse/discourse_docker#launcher
As in our server the repository is deployed with
rootwe needrootaccess to run this method.
ubuntu@community:~# cd /var/discourse/
ubuntu@community:~# ./launcher restart
As in the previus entry, we can access to the Docker logs or to the launcher logs.
TODO