Can someone explain to me the process of adding discourse to already running Ghost single click install? Do I start with a discourse single-click install, resulting in ghost and discourse each running in its own droplet? If so, how do I integrate them?
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You have two ways to do so, one is to create another droplet for your discourse application, this one is fairly straightforward. The second option is to install discourse manually on your initial droplet where Ghost is located.
I’ll recommend you to follow this DigitalOcean tutorial on how to install Discourse on your droplet :
https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-install-discourse-on-ubuntu-18-04
Before you get started, there are a few things you will need:
- server with at least 2GB of RAM
- Docker installed on your server
- An SMTP mail server. If you don’t want to run your own mail server, you can use another service, like a free account on Mailgun.
Good thing about the tutorial is that it gives detailed steps and other documentation you might need to install Discourse on your droplet.
PS. Make a snapshot of your droplet first, just in case something doesn’t work properly after the changes you’ve done
Regards, KFSys
Greetings! You need to have ghost running in the localhost or you can just download the default theme from the ghost admin panel, unzip the theme to Paste the embed code into post.hbs using your code editor then you need to zip the theme before uploading.
Check on the full guide: ghost.org/integrations/discourse.
That’s how i did mine
Thank you, @KFSys - your suggestions seem valid and helpful; based on that I already decided to use Mailgun (using this guide, which I highly recommend). I am also taking the path of setting my ghost and discourse servers as two droplets installed as “single click” approach, instead of using the Docker. I prefer the ability to modify these servers if needed by login to the server via console.
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