Mandrill Email Server Setup on Discourse and email activation

July 5, 2015, 8:06 am

Hello, so I installed discourse on EC2 Amazon Linux first, but then i came across many email issues. I cannot even send a test email because I could not install python3-yaml

but NOW I reinstalled discourse on Ubuntu 14 and I can finally send a test email with ./launcher testmail app thing. But when I tried to create admin account, I never receive the activation email.

For the smtp configuration I am using Mandrill which everyone recommend but I still have problems with not receiving activation emails. I am pretty sure all the inputs are correct. Also I saw a post that I have to restart sidekiq and reset DB server name or something. I do not know what to do ?!

Also note I am not using a domain name, I am using the IP address for the server. I wonder if that changes anything.

Please help!
thanks

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What is a Wiki Post?

July 5, 2015, 8:15 am

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@erlend_sh wrote:

A wiki post is a special type of post that can be edited by any user on your forum.

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To mark a post as wiki-editable, you need moderator/admin privileges. (or TL4?)

Properties of Wiki Posts

Post will be highlighted (default is green)

Takes advantage of Discourse's built in revisions.

Post can be edited by any user with TL1(?) or above.

If two users are editing the post at the same time, the latest save becomes the latest revision, thus overwriting the contents of the previous save.

Currently NOT supported in Wiki Posts

(Automatic) Table of Contents

Edit lock / Simultaneous editing

Footnotes

Further Reading

Editing wiki posts at the same time as someone else

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How to create a Wiki Post

July 5, 2015, 8:17 am

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@erlend_sh wrote:

To create a wiki post you simply mark an existing post as wiki-editable.

Usually, you'll first have to click the ellipsis button to reveal all available post options.

Now click the wrench icon.

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And lastly, select "Make Wiki"

All done! The post should be highlighted and your post is now editable by everyone.

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What are "Likes"?

July 5, 2015, 8:25 am

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@erlend_sh wrote:

Express agreement, support, and highlight interesting posts with the prominent ❤ button on every post.

Will update image once 1.4 goes stable.

Properties of Likes

All likes are public:

Each post shows which users have liked it

A user's profile tracks all given and received likes.

"Liking" a post will trigger a notification to the post's author (default user setting).

Likes can also trigger badges.
Example: a post with 10 likes will grant the author a "Nice Post" badge (default admin setting).

You can not like your own post.

You can only like a post once.

You can only undo a like within 10 minutes after submitting the like. (default admin setting).

Likes affect post rankings (undocumented) (Top, external comments etc.)

The amount of likes you can pass out in a day depends on your Trust Level.

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What is "Infinite Scrolling"?

July 5, 2015, 8:27 am

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@erlend_sh wrote:

"Infinite Scrolling" is a term for what is happening if you're scrolling through a page filled with content and - as, or before, you reach the bottom - more content is loaded automatically

Discourse attempts to utilise infinite scrolling in a way that solely adds to the user's reading experience, and never detracts from it.

Discourse takes full advantage of HTML5's History API.

As you scroll, the browser address bar is updated according to your reading position.

Back/forward buttons work as expected.

The pagination widget tells you how far along you are, and lets you jump to the beginning, end, or an exact postID of your choice.

Only JSON calls are made. No site elements need to be redrawn in order to load more content, which means minimal bandwidth usage.

Further Reading

Infinite Scrolling That Works - eviltrout.com

Infinite Scrolling - Let's get to the bottom of this - smashingmagazine.com

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Upgrade failed because Docker out of date

July 5, 2015, 11:44 am

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@zajako wrote:

Hello,

I was trying to use the admin panel update and it froze up.

This caused the main pages to stop working, only admin pages worked.

I went to /var/docker and did "git pull"

it fixed things so the website works again however I can't rebuild the app as this happens:
boards:/var/docker# ./launcher rebuild app
ERROR: Docker version 0.11.1 not supported, please upgrade to at least 1.2.0, or recommended 1.2.0

I can't figure out how to update docker by itself and the admin panel is pretty broken now, not sure if the boards themselves are functioning fully either.

This is what my admin panel looks like: http://files.zajako.com/brRN

Honestly, I'm not sure my /var/docker folder is docker at all, I think its just discourse. I installed it back when discourse was in the 0.x versions using the tutorial posted at the time.

So I'm not sure what to do to restore things to full functionality, anyone able to help?

Thanks

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Edit existing source of the forum

July 5, 2015, 1:50 pm

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@AlexTemina wrote:

If you want to go to the point (tl;dr), skip the first 2 paragraphs

I've been looking for this since a week ago. I'm starting to think that, somewhat, is not possible.
I'm not a discourse expert, nor a forum creator expert, nor a RoR expert, and I never used a VPS, only hostings for websites. BUT! I'm a software engineer, so no problem

I have discourse installed in a droplet in Digital Ocean, using docker, so it's in a container. I'm starting to control how discourse works, and all the admin services, but I wanna go further. I want to make the forum mine, I want to be able to control every single corner of the forum, and of course, that is not possible even with the millions of options that Discourse has from the Admin (Thanks, dudes!).

Let's go to the point. One of the things I want to do is to edit the existing source. As far as I know, that is not possible with the HTML customization, since this is only adding new elements, and not editing the existing ones. How can I do this?
Let's put an example to make it easier:

rewphus:

I started to play around with this idea recently and I was able to get the thumbnails working, but there are a lot of things I'm still working on for it to fit my needs. I will at least post what I did here for the thumbnails. I first started with Sam's personal "minimal" topic list design and an example form @JSey . @sam provided a great starting point for a minimal layout that just so happens would more easily fit thumbnails, so i figured there was no reason to reinvent the wheel. His ful…

@rewphus points at "Header" when leaving us that beatiful piece of code. But as I said before, it is not possible, since we want to edit something that already exists, the rows of the topics table.
So... how can I do this? Thanks for all the documentation you can supply here, guys.

--Alex

P.S: I don't mind If I have to make a plugin or whatever, ready for all

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WP Discourse Embed Plugin

July 5, 2015, 8:42 pm

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@techAPJ wrote:

I just published a new WordPress plugin to embed Discourse comments using @eviltrout's excellent embed code.

https://github.com/techAPJ/wp-discourse-embed

This WordPress plugin injects the Discourse embed code in blog posts, allowing you to use Discourse as community engine.

It takes two options:

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Discourse URL should be the URL of your Discourse instance, this field is required.

Embed blog posts published after date is an optional field, if provided only blog posts published after the date you provided will use Discourse comments (hiding the original WordPress comments). Blog posts published before the provided date will use original WordPress comments.

Also, this plugin assumes that you have already configured embedding settings as per @eviltrout's instructions here.

That's it once you have activated the plugin and provided Discourse URL, you should start seeing Discourse comments embedded under blog posts!

Download the plugin, and start contributing! -- https://github.com/techAPJ/wp-discourse-embed

Note: This is the initial version of the plugin and has scope for improvements, it should not be considered stable.

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How about a moneytary system

July 5, 2015, 10:59 pm

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@lx_production wrote:

If I want to hire a developer to program a moneytary system like that of Redit's, where users could use bitcoins to buy golds, give golds to others, have access to gold member only areas, redeem their golds, etc ... How much would the cost be, just an estimate?

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Spacing for percentages in polls

July 6, 2015, 1:45 am

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@fefrei wrote:

In a poll, there is no spacing to the left of the percentage. This can look quite nasty:

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Custom Docker-Discourse bootstrapping from private GIT repository

July 6, 2015, 5:34 am

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@RabidFX wrote:

Hello all o/

I'm working on a custom theme for Discourse. Everything works well in the Vagrant VM, and it's now time to try a "real" install.
I pulled the standard Docker image and modified the templates so the bootstrapping would pull from my fork of the discourse/discourse repo, and not the original.

Thing is, the repo I will pull from uses SSH key authentication for the all users, including git.

As expected, it fails on bootstrapping with the following message:
I, [2015-07-06T12:25:59.424104 #36]  INFO -- : > cd /var/www/discourse && git fetch custom-origin release
Host key verification failed.
fatal: Could not read from remote repository.
How can I pull from a private repo expecting a key when bootstrapping?

If the alternative is easier: this repo is hosted on the docker host machine itself. So I could also read directly from the container in the host filesystem... But I assume this is harder than SSHing in, this being a possible Docker security hole...

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Is it possible to automatically noindex each new Discourse topic page created from a WP post?

July 6, 2015, 5:49 am

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@holden wrote:

The title says it all. I'm worried we might end up with too many pages with thin content and get in trouble with the big G (panda content issues).

Another idea. How about the following options?

[checkbox] Noindex new Discourse topic pages [checkbox] Remove

[checkbox] Noindex after this number of replies [field]

That way, if a page becomes active, the noindex can be removed.

Am I concerned about this unnecessarily? I'm in the process of setting up my first blog and community so I don't have much experience. I do, however, have experience with Google penalties so I want to be cautious (damn Google!).

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Private discussion group

July 6, 2015, 6:00 am

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@shb wrote:

I want to make some private conversation, do you think if it is possible?

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Placement of the "Title is required" dialog

July 6, 2015, 8:19 am

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@fefrei wrote:

When trying to post a topic without a title, the placement of the error message is not optimal, to say the least:

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Creating an RSS feed with new topics only in a category

July 6, 2015, 8:32 am

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@john_mardlin wrote:

We pipe the RSS feed from some topics (mostly dev-support related) into some of our chat rooms.

I believe that we previously had it configured to show only new topics, and not new posts on existing topics. Unfortunately, we accidentally nuked that setup, and what we've got now is bringing in new posts. The resulting feed is too noisy, to allow any other kind of conversation.

This is the current feed: https://community.coinbase.com/c/developers.rss

Is there a "new topics only" modifer for that?

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Change default copy of closed thread post

July 6, 2015, 8:35 am

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@Emily wrote:

Is there a way to change the default copy of a closed thread?

At the moment it shows "This topic is now closed. New replies are no longer allowed.". Would love to update that.

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Custom Amazon S3 region for storage

July 6, 2015, 8:52 am

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@faebser wrote:

I have my Discourse instance running on a custom cloud infrastructure. They also support S3 object storage.
Obviously the use a custom S3 region that is not added yet. How do I configure my instance to use these regions?

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`mailtest` script never really going to work

July 6, 2015, 10:40 am

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@DeanMarkTaylor wrote:

Over time I've noted a number of posts users reporting that mail isn't getting delivered and the mailtest doesn't deliver mail.

Never used mailtest myself - but this bugged me so I took a look...

Looking at the code for mailtest it seems that the mail is always being sent from nobody+launcher-mailtest@discourse.org:
github.com
discourse/discourse_docker/blob/9e83982d9b9277ca5dc99dc8f8c847e2189f3866/scripts/mailtest#L131-L143
msg = email.message.Message()
msg.add_header('From', 'nobody+launcher-mailtest@discourse.org')
msg.add_header('To', destemail)
msg.add_header('Subject', 'discourse launcher mailtest for {}'.format(os.path.basename(cfgfile)))
msg.set_payload(testinfo)


try:
smtp = smtplib.SMTP(smtp_addr, smtp_port, timeout=5)
#smtp.debuglevel=1
do_tls(smtp,smtp_sslv)
if smtp_user:
    smtp.login(smtp_user, smtp_pass)
result = smtp.sendmail('nobody+launcher-mailtest@discourse.org', destemail, msg.as_string())
This isn't going to work well (for non-discourse.org hosted installs):

The SPF record for discourse.org specifically blocks all mail not from the allowed the white listed records with a -all.
"v=spf1 mx ptr ip4:64.71.148.0/29 ip6:2001:470:1:3c2::/64 include:_spf.google.com -all"

It's not a good plan to test sending from discourse.org this should really be a domain the user controls.
Incorrect SPF and DKIM records will really screw up delivery.

Hope this helps.

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"Send a invite" button in a more visible section of the site?

July 6, 2015, 12:56 pm

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@hcentelles wrote:

Hi all

The "Send a invite" button (site wide, not topic invite) is placed right now in a kind of obscure path, Profile > Invites > Send a Invite. Can I place that button in a more visible section of my site? the header, for example.

Maybe I can use a link to the Invites page (/users/codighorror/invited), but what I want is the button that trigger the "Send a Invite" popup.

Thanks in advance

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Polls are currently broken everywhere

July 6, 2015, 1:05 pm

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@downey wrote:

Example here, or any poll:

A better poll :bar_chart: feature feature

It's been a year since @sam wrote about how we should we implement polls in Discourse and we've been fortunate enough to get our first implementation done by the community (cc. @radq). However, as pretty much all features in a software, the first version was missing a few things. Most of the feedbacks we got were asking for the possibility to support multiple choices polls. So, for the past couple of weeks, I've been working on revamping our poll plugin. [star2] Here's how it works [star…

No results are shown and it's also not possible to vote. This is happening on meta as well as my (latest) site.

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