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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: