Reference: http://stroupaloop.com/blog/discourse-setup-using-aws/
VPC with a Single Public Subnet Create subnet for each availability zone Create security group for VPC Update inbound rules:
- SSH (22) - anywhere
- HTTP (80) - anywhere
- HTTPS (443) - anywhere
- Custom TCP (5432) - anywhere
- Customer TCP (6379 - anywhere
Create subnet group in RDS add all subnets Launch DB Postgres Instance (Multi-AZ..) t2.small - 100gb choose VPC group, port 5432
Setup Redis cache subnet group (no cluster mode) add all subnets Launch cache Redis cluster port 6379 - m3.medium
Setup SMTP (mailgun, sendgrid)
Launch EC2 instance (maybe don't use Ubuntu 16.04, 14.* may have less errors) Allocate new public IP t2.medium - 100gb
Go to VPC select Route Tables select Routes Add Route 0.0.0.0/0 >> internet gateway
If CloudFlare is enabled for this hostname, disabled it
Once in server:
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade
Maybe:
apt-get install grub-common grub-pc
(select all boot drives using spacebar, hit enter)
sudo apt-get install linux-image-generic-lts-raring linux-headers-generic-lts-raring
sudo reboot # requires ssh back into server
sudo apt-get install git
wget -qO- https://get.docker.io/ | sh
sudo usermod -aG docker ubuntu
sudo mkdir /var/docker
sudo git clone https://github.com/discourse/discourse_docker.git /var/docker
cd /var/docker
sudo cp samples/web_only.yml containers/app.yml
sudo cp samples/redis.yml containers/redis.yml
sudo cp samples/data.yml containers/data.yml
Maybe:
add LETSENCRYPT_ACCOUNT_EMAIL: you@example.com
Run ./discourse-setup
(Answer questions)
sudo ./launcher bootstrap app
sudo ./launcher start app
If no activation email is received, try these:
./launcher enter app
rails r "SiteSetting.notification_email = 'discourse@yoursite.com'"
exit
tail shared/web-only/log/rails/production.log