How to update Discourse
Discourse (the software that runs these forums) should be updated regularly. if you’re an admin and have noticed that Discourse is out of date, you should schedule a maintenance window to update it. Updating can be done like so:
Step 1: SSH into the server
Discourse currently runs on fs-docker
. SSH into fs-docker
now.
See the following posts here for more information:
https://forums.freeside.co.uk/t/server-infrastructure/103
https://forums.freeside.co.uk/t/quick-ssh-configuration/192
Step 2: Update Discourse
To update Discourse, the container must be rebuilt. Do that like so:
sudo bash
cd /var/discourse
git pull
./launcher rebuild app