Hello, We’re running Discourse using AWS Elastic Beanstalk’s Docker environment, with a single Docker container running on each of 2 (or more) servers. We noticed that the main stylesheet is 404ing about 50% of the time. I think this is because of the stylesheet cache implementation: A rebuild o…

you need Gluster or Ceph or some other shared storage for the /public/uploads directory otherwise you are hosed.

I see. Does that mean Discourse can’t be used on services like Elastic Beanstalk, Heroku, etc? I’ve configured our installation to store uploads in S3, but the stylesheet cache seems to be a special case. Would you be open to a patch that uses the distributed cache to store the compiled stylesheet…

I definitely think this is plugin territory, pretty sure you could monkey patch rails/discourse to work this way.

OK. I’ll look into that. Thanks!

It would be great to see this resolved in Discourse itself. Eliminating ad-hoc local filesystem writes in favor of persisting to well-defined backing services along the lines of The Twelve-Factor App would allowing easier deployments and horizontal scaling across different platforms. AWS Elastic Be…

[imagem] pda: S3 is already supported for uploads This is very temporary, we are having all sorts of nightmarish issues with this, edge cases where it is failing and so on. We are going to be dropping support for it in our next release. I am curious to see a template that add ceph or some ot…

We are having this exact same error on Heroku and it’s driving us mad. Have you ever come up with a solution?

Our solution was to pay for hosted Discourse :wink:

I went with Digital Ocean and discourse_docker - we are happy now.

Stylesheet cache in multi-server setup

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sam (Sam Saffron) Março 24, 2015, 9:43pm 9

We use glusterfs and it works fine for us.

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