By kyky
I installed discource, using this tutorial. It worked great but now when I go to www.example.com, it automatically redirects to my forum.example.com subdomain. Just example.com doesn’t seem to work.
I am now confused on what to do next to be able to create a site, using the same droplet, on my example.com domain.
I installed nginx but it gave me an error code, saying that the “Address already in use.”
All of the tutorials I am reading say to, for example, “Then, configure nginx to serve files from that directory. Open /etc/nginx/sites-available/default in your favorite text editor and update the line with the root directive such that it looks as follows:” I guess my problem might be, I have no idea how to edit get to these file and edit them in a text editor.
Appreciate any and all help y’all can throw my way.
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You need to change the port that discourse listens on it, maybe use 8080 so you can use port 80 for Nginx.
Hope this helps.
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