answering my own question with my experience. others feel free to reply with better knowledge.
I just installed two plugins
I followed the excellent Cloudron Guide for Discourse
I cloned both repos from github then the rake plugin command. Once both were done I purged the assets and restarted. So far so good.
@jdaviescoates handy? NOPE!
I get it... they need to make $ to keep discourse development (or nodebb) funded and moving forward. But after I got Discourse installed I thought there would be a nice UI for the Plugins... nope.
It's not hard but it is tedious.
Best I've been able to do so far is to go to official Discourse github repo and do a search for "discourse-plugin" which is how they tag MOST plugins.
https://github.com/orgs/discourse/repositories?q=discourse-plugin&type=all&language=&sort=
I also keep their plugins page pulled up to know what is available and how they prioritize them.
I skipped opting for SSO when installing apps. According to the Cloudron Docs in Users & Groups section you need to select SSO at the time of app installation.
Assuming an app support LDAP. Is it possible to add LDAP support (Cloudron SSO) to an app after it is installed?
Is there an existing solution (app) or even just codebase that would allow you to handle the authentication/membership for other apps?
I am trying to build a community website and want to use Ghost for blog, Discourse as forum, wiki.js, and shopify for the store.
Ghost has plugin to allow Discourse to handle comments but I believe it still requires separate authentication.
Ghost has an odd setup for authentication as it has "members" which are email subscribers (customers) and another set of members they call Staff which are more like traditional users which can be authors/editors/admin.
To make the community work really well and flow. I would like to have one user/member database that handles authentication between the various apps. Thanks to how Cloudron works I can access the mysql database for Ghost from the other apps like Discourse and Wiki.js. However it would still require some coding to make it all work together smoothly.
So far it doesn't seem like Ghost has robust oAuth support, it is still considered "alpha" and in the experimental areas of the admin UI.
Right now I'm just trying to make them all work nicely together. So if you know of an existing solution or know of someones git or github project please let me know.
Is it possible to install more than one plugin before you purge the assets folder and restart the application?
I have a decent linode with 4gb of ram and 2cores but it still takes if a few minutes to restart. I want to install the "standard" plugins they include with their $100 mo hosting plan.
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moving it outside privacy worked, thank you!
@jdaviescoates Cloudron security sounds very well thought out and just what I need. I will continue to read and try to understand how to implement.
Does anyone know if Ghost support LDAP or is there a work around so Ghost will use Cloudron user auth?
Is it possible to share a database between apps?
Specifically for me to access the database for Ghost (mysql) with Discourse? Each installed via Cloudron so they are isolated within the same server. Is it possible to share a port between apps without opening it to to public?
@jdaviescoates ask who? Discourse or Cloudron?
Discourse lists the plugins for each plan https://www.discourse.org/plugins
@jdaviescoates I will read up on cloudron auth.
regardless Ghost is almost "locked down" for external auth. I don't know why but all of my research the past few days show the request for oAuth going back to before v1 and in v4.7 (as of today) they still don't support it fully or even officially. It's stupid.
They SHOULD turn their amazing blog engine into a full CMS with robust authentication, isolating auth so you can use it however you need. I read up on running Ghost as a "HEADLESS CMS" but that's not what I want it for, doing so requires you to handle all the front end and theming. To me that defeats the purpose of Ghost. But I'm still just beginning to understand Ghost and the other apps so maybe I will find a way.
@girish Thank you!
The more I learn how to use Cloudron the more impressive it is!
Great job!
I've used many similar apps/code over the years to manage a VPS or Server and Cloundron continues to have an answer. Your support via email AND forum is equally impressive and much appreciated!
I just found this https://github.com/discourse/all-the-plugins
I'm not sure I want to install ALL of them from this single repo though. If someone does, please let us know your experience.
This was working earlier but now the Download and even Rename options are disabled for any file or folder in any app.
What would make Rename or Download option disabled in the File Manager?
