POP3 is enabled in the next release. Though, I haven't tried if Discourse works well with that.

@brutalbirdie yes, thanks 😊

@murgero @girish
I think I figured it out: I suspect that I changed root's username soon after install, then forgot about it, or did not realize that I did so. I am not sure what happened with the password either, but what I had wasn't working. So I was able to change the email address associated with the (renamed) root account. Then I had to wait a couple days to get a new password while time4vps's occasionally available support opened port 25. It's set up correctly now.

Now that I mentioned it, I will state for the record that time4vps's support is NOT 24/7 like they so proudly state on their homepage. Their hours are GMT +3:
weekdays: 8:30 till 21:30
weekends: 10:00 till 16:30
So if you are on the West Coast of the US you can get support until 11:30 am on weekdays and until 6:30 am on weekends. 😕

@rosano 2GB is the minimum for a single Discourse app, if you have other apps running as well, it's probably not enough - so yes, more RAM = better. I haven't tried a migration, but installing and setting it up worked fine.

@baslow please see https://forum.cloudron.io/topic/2232/changing-root-account-email-in-fresh-discourse-install/4 for the fix. Basically, run sudo -E -u root bundle exec script/rails console instead.

(I am still investigating why the "-u cloudron" does not work, but that should not affect usage of the app.)

@scooke said in Changing root account email in fresh Discourse install:

sudo -E -u root bundle exec script/rails console

Thanks, it solved the issue 👍

@girish nope. same, same.

I guess this thread can be marked as "solved".

Thanks for help, @girish and @BrutalBirdie

Yikes I had made numerous mistakes and it is working now. I had changed my username from admin and I was including the ruby prompts in the commands. I'm still brand new to Cloudron so hopefully I will have less and better questions in the future. Thanks so much @girish

@girish Awesome thanks.

This should be fixed in the latest package.

@ruihildt They renamed a constant from UnicodeUsernameWhitelistValidator to
UnicodeUsernameAllowlistValidator

To fix:

Edit /app/data/site_settings.yml using file manager and replace UnicodeUsernameWhitelistValidator with UnicodeUsernameAllowlistValidator

@girish

Restore completed.

I changed the version to "stable", so there were no downgrade (2.6.0beta7 ->>2.6.0).
rest is simple, (here is steps for anyone who want to migrate)

just install discourse on cloudron, set a demo subdomain to avoid (down time), upload backup file, start restoring process. once restore completed u will logout, signin again with your admin account (The one you use on migrated). go to cloudron dashboard & change to to the real domain. update it from domain register if you use manual domain. be sure in discourse dashboard that the notification email domain is OK. it will take around 1 minute with almost zero down time. to be sure everything is OK, shut down the old server/vps.

I finally tested on a fresh install... and it works. So I dug some more, comparing the two installations, and realized at some point is a JS error on my regular install, linked to the chat integration plugin. In the end the code was outdated (it relied on a deprecated API), so I pulled the last version from git and... it worked.

Long story short: this was a plugin bug 🤷 Sorry for the noise, and thanks for suggesting testing a separate install!

@bangden07 Yeah, 1 CPU/2GB is not enough for Discourse+WikiJS+Cloudron+Potsgresql+etc. It's quite a heavy app (it runs ruby/rails).

Hi there,

yes that is possible. The different app instances will run in their own isolated containers on the same VPS