Hi! I installed a one-click image of Discourse on Ubunto 16.04 and got it up and running. Now I want to add a WordPress + SSL encryption to it. I want to have discourse accessible through a subfolder at mydomain.com/forum.
Since I currently have this setup running - what’s the easiest way for me to implement these changes?
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The Discourse one-click uses Docker by default and hosts everything including the web service within a docker container.
This will require some customization. The easiest change you can make to implement this setup would be:
- Change the port that the Discourse web service listens on to something other than port 80.
- Install a LEMP stack on your droplet
- Create two server blocks in your new Nginx configuration.
- One will use PHP-FPM and will point to the directory where WordPress is installed
- The other will use the
reverse_proxysetting in Nginx to forward requests for Discourse by passing them through to the service running on a different local port.
Thanks, that’s very helpful! Would I go about it the same way to add a static homepage or is there a simpler way? I’m sorry for the rookie questions, but Google left me with even more questions.
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