PressBooks is an amazing way to publish eBooks and display working books online in a webview.

It is based on WordPress multisite, but is quite hard to set up, especially in a Docker container, so I think it would be a great addition to Cloudron. I myself and my clients would be bowled over with excitement.

Check it out:

• PressBooks homepage: https://pressbooks.com/
• PressBooks installation procedures: https://docs.pressbooks.org/installation/
• PressBooks GitHub repo: https://github.com/pressbooks/pressbooks

I am a ten-day newbie to Cloudron but have over twenty years experience working as a technical writer for mostly Montreal-based companies like Autodesk Media & Entertainment (compositing/editing film and tv), Moment Factory (live event multimedia) and Genetec (physical security).

However my hobby and real passion is plain writing and getting this out in as many mediums as possible. This led me to shared hosting WordPress blogs and eventually VPS with DigitalOcean. Along the way I tried to set up and run maybe ten or more apps that are in the Cloudron store so it is a revelation to find it as it simplifies and brings together all this experimentation basically onto a single server.

I am very excited to find Cloudron and this community and hope to contribute perhaps initially more in-line with my past experience as a technical writer: which means asking lots of questions

@jdaviescoates I am sure you are correct: I hadn’t seen that great thread. Perhaps @Lonk can take a look at PressBooks too when he does the work on WP multisite?

PressBooks is perhaps my favourite App as a writer so to see there is already work being done on WP mutisite is encouraging. Thanks!

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

I am a ten-day newbie to Cloudron but have over twenty years experience working as a technical writer for mostly Montreal-based companies like Autodesk Media & Entertainment (compositing/editing film and tv), Moment Factory (live event multimedia) and Genetec (physical security).

However my hobby and real passion is plain writing and getting this out in as many mediums as possible. This led me to shared hosting WordPress blogs and eventually VPS with DigitalOcean. Along the way I tried to set up and run maybe ten or more apps that are in the Cloudron store so it is a revelation to find it as it simplifies and brings together all this experimentation basically onto a single server.

I am very excited to find Cloudron and this community and hope to contribute perhaps initially more in-line with my past experience as a technical writer: which means asking lots of questions

@girish Thanks. Some of this was just oversight on my part. But the advice you have given is very useful. All working/good now!

@wexlerj I have been learning more about how users work in Cloudron and think I understand how I am supposed to add new users. I am still curious about the original question. No urgency. Thanks.

My new Mastodon instance is by default closed to user registration.
I looked through the Cloudron and Mastodon docs and couldn't quite figure out how to open it up.
Any advice? Is there something to be run from the terminal? Sorry if I missed something simple but I cannot find the answer. Thanks!

@jdaviescoates I am sure you are correct: I hadn’t seen that great thread. Perhaps @Lonk can take a look at PressBooks too when he does the work on WP multisite?

PressBooks is perhaps my favourite App as a writer so to see there is already work being done on WP mutisite is encouraging. Thanks!

PressBooks is an amazing way to publish eBooks and display working books online in a webview.

It is based on WordPress multisite, but is quite hard to set up, especially in a Docker container, so I think it would be a great addition to Cloudron. I myself and my clients would be bowled over with excitement.

Check it out:

• PressBooks homepage: https://pressbooks.com/
• PressBooks installation procedures: https://docs.pressbooks.org/installation/
• PressBooks GitHub repo: https://github.com/pressbooks/pressbooks

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 said in Changing Default Email:

https://docs.cloudron.io/apps/discourse/#changing-root-account-email

Hi all,
I am having trouble too changing the root account email according to the procedure. I get errors on every command in the Ruby console.
Does this have to do that it doesn't allow me to login as root when using sudo?
I can copy the errors if you need more information.
Thanks meanwhile.

@girish Awesome thanks.

Hi,
The default email server that runs with all Cloudron Apps doesn't work for me because as I read more that half of DigitalOcean IPs are blacklisted.
The quite easy workaround for WordPress was just to use the SMTP plugin with Mailgun.
I would like to do the same thing with Discourse, but you cannot change the email server settings directly in the Discourse UI but must go through the command line as in the following procedure: https://crunchify.com/how-to-configure-mailgun-email-server-on-discourse-forum-correct-way/
I know my away around Docker a bit but need better step-by-step instructions on hope to go into the Discourse container and configure it to run with my Mailgun account. Any help on this would be much appreciated.
Cloudron rocks by the way, this issue has to do with a limitation of DigitalOcean and not Cloudron.
Thanks!