Dockerless installation

Something that I don't believe has been mentioned by anyone yet, but what of a dockerless installation in a production or evaluation environment, for reason that the environment itself is fenced (LXC)? Proxmox does not guarantee support for nested containers, the current 9.x version of Proxmox that supports docker emulation is still a immature feature, and this software does not necessitate an entirely separate hypervisor and VM stack just to run docker containers

Just FYI - for development only I can run Misago natively on Windows. (No notifications, no e-mails, maybe even no cache - but forum itself works nicely.)
Don't ask how - Claude (AI) made it work. If anyone is interested, I can make it write down exact instructions.

I'm still, and have been for four years, running misago under podman using this setup. This is not using docker compose, but standing up the individual containers/services. As such, though the example is for podman it should equally have application to docker, k8s, or linux containers.

Things to note - none of the maintenance tools work the same way (see the maintennance tasks in the third post), and you need to define your own backup scheme.

You can run Misago for testing or development on any platform where Pyhon and Postgress are available.

So if you use a Virtual machine the easy way is choose a Linux OS with python 3.12 available.
If not you have to install/build it on your own.

On a debian based Version you can run
apt install postgresql python3 python3-pip virtualenv bzip2 tar npm git

On others just use the os specific command

You can add a database user and a database with:
su postgres
psql
create user devel with encrypted password 'xxx';
create database misago owner=devel;
exit
exit

Add a user if you need a new one with:
adduser dummy

change to the user and make installtion directory:
su dummy
cd /home/dummy/
mkdir devel39

If you have native python3.12:
virtualenv devel39

if you installed python via src build:
virtualenv --python=/usr/local/bin/python3.12 devel39

Now activate the virtual venv with:
cd devel39/
. bin/activate

get Misago 0.39.6 Version
git clone github.com/rafalp/Misago.git --branch 0.39.6 --single-branch

Install Misago requierents:
cd Misago
pip3.12 install -r requirements.txt

If you got an error try:
pip3.12 install celery -U
pip3.12 install -r requirements.txt

change the database name,user,password etc in devproject/settings.py

Now you are ready to go try:
python3.12 manage.py

If it works you can build the core database and an admin user with:
python3.12 manage.py migrate
python3.12 manage.py createsuperuser

Now start Misago with:
python3.12 manage.py runserver

To be clear this is no production installation nor one to test all features.
Every acronym task front most notification will fail.
the default cache is also slow, but local testing will be alleyway faster than any remote connection.

you can change CELERY_BROKER_URL = "memory://" in devproject/settings.py to reduce errors but if you need async task you may do:
apt install redis
and set CELERY_BROKER_URL = "redis://localhost:6379/0" in devproject/settings.py

And before you start misago with manage.py runserver
celery -A devproject -b "redis://:localhost:6379/" worker -D
nohup celery -A devproject -b "redis://localhost:6379/0" beat &

for email notification and registration you will also need a mail server and adjust the config in devproject/settings.py