Discourse Forum Setup
Revision as of 00:04, 19 November 2020 by RobertBushman (talk | contribs)
- Pick domain for trial (probably bobbushman.com)
- Correction - using experiencemaking.com since email is already set up
- Setup email for domain
- AWS Mail
- Cheating - Experiencemaking.com is already set up. :D
- DNS registry setup
- Cheating - Experiencemaking.com is already set up. :D
- Admin account for Let's Encrypt cert
- created forum.admin@experiencemaking.com
- AWS Mail
- 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
- https://github.com/discourse/discourse/blob/master/docs/INSTALL-cloud.md
- $ sudo -s
- $ git clone https://github.com/discourse/discourse_docker.git /var/discourse
- $ cd /var/discourse
- 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
- Hostname : forum.experiencemaking.com
- Email : forum.admin@experiencemaking.com
- SMTP address : smtp.mail.us-west-2.awsapps.com
- SMTP port : 465
- SMTP username : discourse.admin@experiencemaking.com
- SMTP password : password1.no.really.I.used.password1.haha.entertainment
- Let's Encrypt : forum.admin@experiencemaking.com
- Register Admin Account
- Twice as entertaining
- Troubles with email
- Tried SES and Workmail endpoints, STARTTLS and SSL/TLS, 587 and 465, bob and discourse.admin, telnet confirmed connectivity, sent email using Thunderbird. No dice with Discourse.
- I think the next step is to set up a local SMTP server that forwards to Workmail
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- Set ports (at some point)
- Install Docker