Discourse Forum Setup: Difference between revisions

Revision as of 20:31, 18 November 2020

Pick domain for trial (probably bobbushman.com)
1. Correction - using experiencemaking.com since email is already set up
Setup email for domain
1. AWS Mail
  - Cheating - Experiencemaking.com is already set up. :D
2. DNS registry setup
  - Cheating - Experiencemaking.com is already set up. :D
3. Admin account for Let's Encrypt cert
  - Cheating - using bob@experiencemaking.com
Create Lightsail node
- Created a $5 node.
- Assigned static IP: 44.238.32.225
- opened port 443 (HTTPS) through firewall
DNS registry for forum.experiencemaking.com
- done
- Login successful. It's alive!
Apt Update
- sudo apt update
- sudo apt dist-upgrade -y
- sudo reboot # if needed
Install Extras
- sudo apt install git
- sudo apt install netcat
Install Discourse
1. https://github.com/discourse/discourse/blob/master/docs/INSTALL-cloud.md
  1. $ sudo -s
  2. $ git clone https://github.com/discourse/discourse_docker.git /var/discourse
  3. $ cd /var/discourse
  4. Going to take a stab at doing this without SPF. I've already got DKIM, and Amazon SES does ses.amazon.com SPF. We'll see. Easy enough to try again.
  5. $ ./discourse-setup
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Set ports (at some point)
Install Docker

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 #* sudo apt install git
 #* sudo apt install netcat
-#* sudo apt install docker
 # Install Discourse
 ## https://github.com/discourse/discourse/blob/master/docs/INSTALL-cloud.md
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 ### Going to take a stab at doing this without SPF. I've already got DKIM, and Amazon SES does ses.amazon.com SPF. We'll see. Easy enough to try again.
 ### $ ./discourse-setup
-### I don't love the way it installs Docker. I'd prefer apt install docker, to make sure it is built for the OS.
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 # Set ports (at some point)