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Web site of spinalcordmri organization.
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Update README with locally-hosted MX instructions #72

Closed kousu closed 3 years ago

kousu commented 3 years ago

Integrate the instructions from #70 into the main instructions.

Also make sure to make explicit that these are for Ubuntu 18.04-LTS. When we do #71, we should make sure to change that and re-adapt all the instructions for the new platform.

Closes #70.

kousu commented 3 years ago

The one weird thing about these is that they require running ./discourse-setup twice, and I haven't tested if, in the first run, you're even allowed to skip entering SMTP credentials, or if skipping that will break the forum by preventing the admins from getting their initial accounts.

I am not going to test on the real server lest I break it. I also don't really feel like setting up a whole server from scratch just to validate these instructions start to finish, though I probably should.

kousu commented 3 years ago

@jcohenadad or @alexfoias can you give these email server instructions a once over? I have misgivings about it being written for an outdated ubuntu and about not actually getting to properly test it. We could test these instructions if we had a temporary spare VM to try things out on, and remembered to substitute a different domain name everywhere.

alexfoias commented 3 years ago

@kousu The instructions seem clear to me. I was involved only in the changes for namecheap, so I cannot verify the accuration of the other steps. As you said, best way to validate it is to test it on a VM.

kousu commented 3 years ago

I propose that we can probably figure out any bugs in the docs if we need to use them again. Maintaining the forum isn't a core part of what the team is doing. In the interests of time how about this: give me an Approval, we'll merge this, and then when we do #71 we do it by rebuilding the server on a new VM from backups; at that point we'll be able to catch any bugs in the docs. We'll need to update them anyway to account for the minor shifts in the OS anyway.

jcohenadad commented 3 years ago

As @alexfoias said, the instructions look clear to me, but the best way to assess them is to try them. So as @kousu suggested, someone else (e.g. Alex) could setup the forum on the new VM using those instructions and raise issues/clarifications-needed along the way

jcohenadad commented 3 years ago

I should also add: thank you very much for putting together those instructions! 🙏