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Warning: This Guide is Deprecated
We only support Docker based installs now. Please see our official install guide for supported install instructions.
Alternative Install Options
Here lie some alternative installation options for Discourse. They're not the
recommended way of doing things, hence they're a bit out of the way.
Oh, and dragons. Lots of dragons.
Web Server Alternative: apache2
If you instead want to use apache2 to serve the static pages:
# Run these commands as your normal login (e.g. "michael")
# If you don't have apache2 yet
sudo apt-get install apache2
# Edit your site details in a new apache2 config file
sudo vim /etc/apache2/sites-available/your-domain.com
# Put these info inside and change accordingly
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName your-domain.com
ServerAlias www.your-domain.com
DocumentRoot /srv/www/apps/discourse/public
<Directory /srv/www/apps/discourse/public>
AllowOverride all
Options -MultiViews
</Directory>
# Custom log file locations
ErrorLog /srv/www/apps/discourse/log/error.log
CustomLog /srv/www/apps/discourse/access.log combined
</VirtualHost>
# Install the Passenger Phusion gem and run the install
gem install passenger
passenger-install-apache2-module
# Next, we "create" a new apache2 module, passenger
sudo vim /etc/apache2/mods-available/passenger.load
# Inside paste (change the user accodingly)
LoadModule passenger_module /home/YOUR-USER/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.0.0-p0/gems/passenger-4.0.2/libout/apache2/mod_passenger.so
# Now the passenger module configuration
sudo vim /etc/apache2/mods-available/passenger.conf
# Inside, paste (change the user accodingly)
PassengerRoot /home/YOUR-USER/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.0.0-p0/gems/passenger-4.0.2
PassengerDefaultRuby /home/YOUR-USER/.rvm/wrappers/ruby-2.0.0-p0/ruby
# Now activate them all
sudo a2ensite your-domain.com
sudo a2enmod passenger
sudo service apache2 reload
sudo service apache2 restart
If you get any errors starting or reloading apache, please check the paths above - Ruby 2.0 should be there if you are using RVM, but it could get tricky.
RVM Alternative: Systemwide installation
Taken from http://rvm.io/, the commands below installs RVM and users in the 'rvm' group have access to modify state:
# Run these commands as your normal login (e.g. "michael") \curl -s -S -L https://get.rvm.io | sudo bash -s stable
sudo adduser $USER rvm
newgrp rvm
. /etc/profile.d/rvm.sh
rvm requirements
# Build and install ruby
rvm install 2.0.0
gem install bundler
When creating the discourse user, add him/her/it to the RVM group:
# Run these commands as your normal login (e.g. "michael")
sudo adduser discourse rvm
RVM will be located in /usr/local/rvm directory instead of /home/discourse/.rvm, so update the crontab line respectively.