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Forem Self-Host is Now Officially Supported

Ben Halpern on July 20, 2021

Today, the playbook for self-hosting your own Forem community is officially live. Read all about this news here. This is day one of Fore...
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Peter Kim Frank

These self-host instructions represent the starting line for anyone out there interested in setting up their very own community. No longer will your ambitions be constrained to borrowing a little slice of someone else's platform. I can't wait to see all of the interesting, authentic, and independent new spaces that will be built on Forem. We look forward to learning from you, supporting you, and cheering you on.

This moment also represents a milestone for folks on the DEV / Forem team (and our OSS Contributors!) who have been working tirelessly behind the scenes for years in getting to this point. There are truly too many folks to name individually, but I have to include a special shout out to @jdoss for the technical leadership in helping make Forem Self-Host a reality.

I look forward to seeing all of the new communities that will start sprouting up in the coming days, weeks, and months 🌱

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Joe Doss

Thanks @peter :)

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Gracie Gregory (she/her)

👏

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Lee Wynne

🦄🦄🦄 what a milestone, congratulations everyone!!!!

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Andrew Brown 🇨🇦 • Edited

After some pain with openssl and Ansible (due to my machine's unique local configuration) I have my own running on AWS for AWS. lol

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Andrew Bone

Amazing work, well done team 🎉🎉🎉

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Ella (she/her/elle)

I echo @coffeecraftcode - thank you for all your contributions, @link2twenty !

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Christina Gorton

Thanks for all your contributions to Forem Andrew. They are greatly appreciated 🙏

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Muhammed Cetin

I've been waiting for this announcement for over 2 months. Finally, I can publish my giant q&a community on DigitalOcean. Thanks a lot 👏👏🙏💗

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Ella (she/her/elle)

Super excited about this, @ce7in , I know how patiently you've been waiting!

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Ben Halpern

Can’t wait to see it!

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Akhil Naidu

Nice intro for the new beginning.

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Madza

It's the milestones like these that make the dev process exciting ✨😉
Awesome to see Forem developing both tech and community-wise 🌱🚀

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Malek Tarboush

Hope you support multi languages.

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Ben Halpern

Not yet, but it will come.

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Roger Torres (he/him/ele)

Is there any way to help with this without being a Ruby developer?

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andresdandrea

I want to contribute to the Spanish translation. Please let me know how and where to do it...

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Michael Harvey Miller

Awesome sauce.

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Sherry Day

Great stuff!

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Nguyễn Trung Kien

I installed Forem on my Ubunto over Docker. then use nginx and proxy_pass to config my domain. But after i try to login it show only blank. and itt show "HTTP Origin header didn't match request.base_url" in log file.

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Darsh

I know i already got an email. :D

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Keyvan M. Sadeghi

Super cool! Kudos to @ben and the team, can only imagine how much work went to achieving this milestone👏👏💪

This addition will make Forem an ideal publishing platform for Web3, no way to bring in something like Medium due to its code coupling with cloud services.

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Andrew Baisden

This is fantastic news 🚀

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Aman Chourasia

Amazing Work! 🤯

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James Turner

Awesome work everyone! Looking forward to trying to auto-create an environment for CI testing of my API client for Forem - that's been a difficulty since the beginning.

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Lee Wynne

What an epic day. One of the most impactful, pivotal, essential and critical open software releases for the modern social Internet.

gamechanging

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Sherry Day

It's true