How to deploy a Discourse forum in Railway through their docker image?
Discourse is a forum software that can be deployed via a docker image: https://hub.docker.com/r/discourse/base
I tried using this URL directly in Railway "New > Docker Image" option, but the URL is replaced by https://hub.docker.com/_/discourse — so I copied their base image folder contents (which includes the Dockerfile):
https://github.com/discourse/discourse_docker/tree/master/image/base
To a new repo and added a Postgres and Redis service in the project.
The deployment fails with:
59 | ADD install-nginx /tmp/install-nginx 60 | >>> RUN /tmp/install-nginx 61 | 62 | RUN apt -y install advancecomp jhead jpegoptim libjpeg-turbo-progs optipng ------------------- ERROR: failed to solve: process "/bin/sh -c /tmp/install-nginx" did not complete successfully: exit code: 2Does what I am attempting have any chance of working? Project ID: eb420912-7d00-4c05-8b5a-85b0415e95f4
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discourse_docker/image/base at master · discourse/discourse_docker
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eb420912-7d00-4c05-8b5a-85b0415e95f4in the case of discourse to add its docker image to a service you would input
discourse/base:release into the input field when prompt to select an image, for a pre-existing service, you can do this by going into the settings under the source sectionThank you @Brody ,
discourse/base:release did work for the image name, it's deployed!
Would there be a way now to run ./discourse-setup on that image, according to this guide:
https://github.com/discourse/discourse/blob/main/docs/INSTALL-cloud.md#6-edit-discourse-configurationGitHub
discourse/docs/INSTALL-cloud.md at main · discourse/discourse
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id say youd want to run that command locally through the railway cli
thanks again @brody192 , I connected to the project's service through the railway CLI on a local clone of discourse_docker repo and ran:
railway run sudo ./discourse-setup
(sudo was needed)
The result was:
Password: ./discourse-setup: line 149: free: command not found ./discourse-setup: line 180: [: : integer expression expected ./discourse-setup: line 189: [: : integer expression expected Ports 80 and 443 are free for use samples/standalone.yml -> containers/app.yml ./discourse-setup: line 149: free: command not found Found GB of memory and 8 physical CPU cores ./discourse-setup: line 260: [: : integer expression expected ./discourse-setup: line 264: [: : integer expression expected ./discourse-setup: line 268: 256 * : syntax error: operand expected (error token is " ") Hostname for your Discourse? [discourse.example.com]:I guess there are some issues, but the prompt for generating the yml shows up. I confirmed enough for now, thank you for reaching out!
you would need to have a local install of discourse and all of its cli tools, since
railway run runs the command locally but with the railway service variables availableDid you manage to install your Discourse forum in Railway service?