Deploying Discourse on AWS leveraging Elastic Beanstalk and ECS

April 18, 2016, 11:33 pm

≫ Next: Best approach to "whitelist" Precedence: bulk mails

Hi everybody,
so I am about to deploy the production environment for our Discourse installation on AWS.

We do have already a staging environment with 2 instances that we launched and configured manually and it works pretty well.

For our production though, I wanted of course to have a solution capable of a minimum of auto-scaling (I have already the app.yml ready to go) and for that reason I was looking to handle the deployment through Elastic Beanstalk with a Multi-container installation.

The recommended way is to use a Dockerrun.aws.json file, and what I have tried to find in the last 2 days is a good example of one that is actually been used (here there is one https://meta.discourse.org/t/document-for-installing-on-aws-ecs/37257/8 but I wanted some advice from somebody that has actually used it).

Can anyone post an example of it?

That would be super helpful.

Cheers

Posts: 1

Participants: 1

Read full topic

↧

Best approach to "whitelist" Precedence: bulk mails

April 19, 2016, 12:54 am

≫ Next: Why are the last-month post counts different?

≪ Previous: Deploying Discourse on AWS leveraging Elastic Beanstalk and ECS

@carlokok wrote:

Normally I'm fine with the filters discourse has setup to avoid posting data for maillings, however how would I best approach allow discourse to create a post anyway with a "Precedence: bulk" header set for a specific domain?

The reason I'm asking, one of our resellers is sending all mails with mandril and has a Precedence: bulk header set which doesn't get posted as a discourse app. We obviously do want to deal with these mails, anyone have an idea on what best to do here?

Posts: 2

Participants: 2

Read full topic

↧

Why are the last-month post counts different?

April 18, 2016, 9:03 pm

≫ Next: Email setup with your existing email server

≪ Previous: Best approach to "whitelist" Precedence: bulk mails

@Addonn wrote:

@codinghorror Hi! I found post statistics are different in About and Dashboard. Why?

NeoImage.jpg520x689 98.8 KB

Posts: 2

Participants: 2

Read full topic

↧

Email setup with your existing email server

April 19, 2016, 3:00 am

≫ Next: Plugin Controller Method never called

≪ Previous: Why are the last-month post counts different?

@RuxBux wrote:

Hi guys, i have finished all... and its working good, language and all... but still cannot figure out why mandril and rest of mail server wont send any email from my discourse forum

then i thought... can i use email server from my existing domain?

i have put all infos but still cannot send any email from my server

forum will not have many sends, its small-based forum

EDIT: i have put settings without ssl, just simple smtp infos and when i test it says SENT! but im not getting anything

http://prntscr.com/au3voa

Posts: 5

Participants: 4

Read full topic

↧

Plugin Controller Method never called

April 19, 2016, 4:14 am

≫ Next: Assign badge even if disabled?

≪ Previous: Email setup with your existing email server

@EndruK wrote:

I there,
I want to create a plugin with new routes and an own server-controller.
My problem is that discourse knows that there is the controller and expects the method for the route.
But the code in my controller method is never called.

plugin:
Disraptor::Engine.routes.draw do
  root to: "disraptor#show"
  get /testroute => "disraptor#show"
end

Discourse::Application.routes.prepend do
  mount Disraptor::Engine, at: "/"
end
Controller:
class Disraptor::DisraptorController < ApplicationController
  def show
    #never gets called :(
    Rails.logger.info "test"
  end
end
I don't know whats the problem here, I just want to mount my plugin Engine at the root route and add an additional route and do some stuff on the server.

This guy has the same problem that his controller method never gets called:

Help wanted on plugin controller dev

We're building a Sitemap plugin and I'm running into an issue. (Yes there has been a lot of discussion around the need for a sitemap, but Google News totally requires it) Somehow the code in the controller is never executed and I get the regular "The page you requested doesn't exist or is private" message. Because I suspected an issue with the view, I have stripped the code so it should only output a log line and an error, but this doesn't work either. Code is here: Running it does …

Posts: 3

Participants: 2

Read full topic

↧

Assign badge even if disabled?

April 19, 2016, 5:04 am

≫ Next: Stuck in 'Read Only' Mode

≪ Previous: Plugin Controller Method never called

@Roxelle wrote:

I disabled a couple of badges.
I have noticed though that are assigned the same soon as you reach their query.
Would not it be better not assign it if you are disabled?

Posts: 1

Participants: 1

Read full topic

↧

Stuck in 'Read Only' Mode

April 19, 2016, 5:09 am

≫ Next: Timed thread openings / posts?

≪ Previous: Assign badge even if disabled?

@StuckInReadOnly wrote:

Hi all,

My site is suddenly in 'read only' mode, and I don't know why.

chathamhouse.sandbaggernews.com

A friend helped me set up Discourse, but unfortunately he's left town for a Linux conference in Seattle
I'm trying to present this site to my professors tomorrow night. Really don't know where to begin.

Thanks so much,
Stuck.

Posts: 2

Participants: 2

Read full topic

↧

Timed thread openings / posts?

April 19, 2016, 7:17 am

≫ Next: New Topic button missing for users that have posting permissions / Error when posting

≪ Previous: Stuck in 'Read Only' Mode

@ljpp wrote:

The timed / automatic thread closing is a fantastic Discourse feature.

I just crossed my mind that pre-defined timed/delayed thread openings would be almost equally useful. This is especially valid in scenarios when the thread is related to an event, so you could pre-define it to appear online at the time of the event, or X hours before, thus eliminating the need to be online as things happen.

In order to avoid duplicate threads, it should be visible to users that there is an incoming new thread pre-defined.

Posts: 2

Participants: 2

Read full topic

↧

New Topic button missing for users that have posting permissions / Error when posting

April 19, 2016, 7:23 am

≫ Next: Images broken in Emails

≪ Previous: Timed thread openings / posts?

@Jared_Needell wrote:

As an admin, I can see a "+New Topic button"

Pasted image1146x380 24.4 KB

however a non-admin who has posting permissions sees this

Pasted image1178x268 12.9 KB

When this user tries to create a new topic, the user gets this error

Pasted image696x167 4.25 KB

Posts: 5

Participants: 2

Read full topic

↧

Images broken in Emails

April 19, 2016, 7:36 am

≫ Next: Cannot Access Admin Area due to 'Server Error while trying to load /admin/users/1.json'

≪ Previous: New Topic button missing for users that have posting permissions / Error when posting

@Jared_Needell wrote:

When a user sends an email, the avatar and attachments are broken. Avatars are default with their first name initial being the avatar.

Posts: 3

Participants: 1

Read full topic

↧

Cannot Access Admin Area due to 'Server Error while trying to load /admin/users/1.json'

April 19, 2016, 9:24 am

≫ Next: Get email notification even I post

≪ Previous: Images broken in Emails

@ron_jeremy wrote:

I am seeing the following error when I try to access the admin panel:

The admin panel actually flashes on the screen for a split second then disappears and is replaced with the above error.

The last changes I made to the forum are as follows:
- Edited Trust Levels to make TL2 and TL3 impossible to achieve
- Edited existing category descriptions
- Created a couple new categories

Everything seemed to be going great, but I have no idea why I'm getting this error when I attempt to access the admin panel today.

Notes:
- My forum is built using the DigitalOcean Discourse one-click install
- My forum (http://forum.singletrackbc.com) seems to be working fine. I can create, edit, and delete posts without issue.
- I ran
./launcher rebuild app
but the problem persists.
- Below is a screenshot of the Trust Levels screen that I took yesterday (I try to screenshot any major changes I make). Do you think it is the root of this issue?

discourse-trust-levels-settings.jpg1080x2321 134 KB

Posts: 7

Participants: 3

Read full topic

↧

Get email notification even I post

April 19, 2016, 10:20 am

≫ Next: Changing href of user avatars on post

≪ Previous: Cannot Access Admin Area due to 'Server Error while trying to load /admin/users/1.json'

@Jared_Needell wrote:

Is it possible for the poster to get an email notification even if he posted?

The reason would be that I can comment/update a topic without having to go to the Discourse site to post a comment.

Posts: 5

Participants: 3

Read full topic

↧

Changing href of user avatars on post

April 19, 2016, 3:58 pm

≫ Next: Last chance for "subfolder support"

≪ Previous: Get email notification even I post

@ivanrlio wrote:

I'm trying to change the href of user avatars to instead hit '/summary/' instead. One method involved trying creating a plugin that was to override /jsapp/models/post.js.es6. It involved editing usernameUrl: url('username', '/users/%@/summary/') but the hrefs did not changed.

Another "hacky" way of approaching it involved using an initalizer/js:
$(document).ready(function() {
  var avatars = $('.main-avatar');

  $.each(avatars, function() {
    var pre = $(this).prop('href');
    var post = pre + '/summary/';
});
This didn't work either however.

Would anyone have a suggestion how to go about doing this?

Posts: 3

Participants: 2

Read full topic

↧

Last chance for "subfolder support"

April 19, 2016, 3:59 pm

≫ Next: How can I update topic content using API?

≪ Previous: Changing href of user avatars on post

@staticinvocation wrote:

I run a pretty large forum, with over 3000 active users and, according to Google Analytics, about 40 on the site in real-time. We've also been users of Discourse for over a year now, and I've been supporting the project for over 2 years. But now I'm about to give up on it.

I have been trying for longer than I'd like to admit to get subfolder support working. I've rebuilt the containers countless times and nuked the site entirely twice to try to get it to work properly. The biggest problems we face with this configuration is that uploads simply don't work. uploads.json returns 404 and we cannot upload any files. Also, youtube videos would break when we linked to them. There are absolutely no error logs for either of these issues.

I've seen the Sitepoint forum and their setup is exactly what we need and yet after countless hours we can't get the configuration just right. This has been a real frustrating experience seeing another community achieve the exact results I've been trying to get for about 6 months.

So if you're running a site in this kind of configuration... I would absolutely love it if you could share your "secret sauce" to getting it working.

TL;DR:

Uploads & youtube completely broken on "subfolder" configuration

Other communities do it just fine apparently

Sorry if this post sounded dramatic, but I really do love this software but these issues are a real show-stopper.

Posts: 12

Participants: 5

Read full topic

↧

How can I update topic content using API?

April 19, 2016, 7:14 pm

≫ Next: Ability to insert close message before closing

≪ Previous: Last chance for "subfolder support"

@li_xinyang wrote:

I have tried to use PUT /t/:id to update topic content with no effect.

github.com

discourse/discourse_api/blob/master/lib/discourse_api/api/topics.rb

module DiscourseApi
  module API
    module Topics
      # :category OPTIONAL name of category, not ID
      # :skip_validations OPTIONAL boolean
      # :auto_track OPTIONAL boolean
      def create_topic(args={})
        args = API.params(args)
                  .required(:title, :raw)
                  .optional(:skip_validations, :category, :auto_track)
        post("/posts", args.to_h)
      end

      def create_topic_action(args)
        args = API.params(args)
                   .required(:id, :post_action_type_id)
        post("/post_actions", args.to_h.merge(flag_topic: true))
      end

      def latest_topics(params={})

This file has been truncated. show original

Seems there is no way to update the content using API. :frowning:

Posts: 9

Participants: 3

Read full topic

↧

Ability to insert close message before closing

April 19, 2016, 7:43 pm

≫ Next: Log in a user via the API

≪ Previous: How can I update topic content using API?

@Henrik_B wrote:

I've closed a multitude of topics. It's a hassle editing the close message after you've closed the topic. I propose a way to insert a close message before the topic closes.

The advantage of this would be that nobody would miss vital information. When you have to edit the close message, it'll take at least 5 minutes to write a paragraph explaining why you closed the topic. People visiting during that time wouldn't receive that close message information.

Posts: 3

Participants: 3

Read full topic

↧

Log in a user via the API

April 20, 2016, 1:02 am

≫ Next: Sidekiq not launching Jobs

≪ Previous: Ability to insert close message before closing

@wasimkham wrote:

I've got SSO set up and working with my website. I'm now wondering if it's possible to log in a user to Discourse automatically, via the API, when someone logs into the website?

This is good so that users do not have to click Log In when they visit Discourse if they're already logged into the website.

Posts: 1

Participants: 1

Read full topic

↧

Sidekiq not launching Jobs

April 20, 2016, 1:37 am

≫ Next: Display a banner for one group

≪ Previous: Log in a user via the API

@laktak wrote:

Continuing the discussion from Old docker image:

I noticed that Discourse isn't creating any backups and apparently it's not running any jobs (other than the version check) at all:

Capture.JPG2831x1603 245 KB

When I click on Trigger it changes the "Next Run Due" to "a minute ago" but does not actually run the job.

In Scheduled Jobs it says No scheduled jobs were found.

What do I need to do to fix this? I already rebuilt.

Posts: 1

Participants: 1

Read full topic

↧

Display a banner for one group

April 20, 2016, 1:45 am

≫ Next: Editing the login page

≪ Previous: Sidekiq not launching Jobs

@Slevin_Kelevra wrote:

Hi guys,

i was trying to add a banner on my forum just displaying for one group.

I tried to put a topic which was in a closed category to global banner but this one could seen by everyone , so that's not a good working.

Did you have any idea on how to get a global banner just shown for one group ?

Thanks

Posts: 1

Participants: 1

Read full topic

↧

Editing the login page

April 20, 2016, 2:03 am

≫ Next: Login page CSS control

≪ Previous: Display a banner for one group

@stav_sitnikov wrote:

Hello all , I would like to create my own landing page for my discourse , What is the best way to do it ?
I would like to have there bootstrap type page .
I have seen that i can not edit most of the HTML in the text content of that page .
Where can i control the HTML code of that page ?

Thank you .

Posts: 1

Participants: 1

Read full topic

↧

Latest Images