Howdy! I’m running Discourse using discourse docker on EC2 using RDS as my database. My app.yml contains all of the proper DISCOURSE_DB_* settings, and sure enough, when I ran launcher bootstrap app, everything worked just fine. However, when I run “launcher run app”, I was getting 502’s hitting po…

Solved - though uncomfortably. My DB password ended with a # character. I can see it in the environment variable. It doesn’t show in Rails.application.config.database_configuration. Obscure, right?

You might as well win the lottery or get struck by lightening. :wat: Glad you got it fixed!

I know, right? Weird enough to write a blog post about: http://starboard.flowtheory.net/2015/04/head-slamming-against-wall-kind-of-bug/

I wonder, tho, shouldn’t this be considered a legitimate bug? It looks like the config values aren’t being quoted at some point while being handed into the container so that the # gets interpreted as starting a comment…

The value goes from a YAML file from discourse_docker (which is in my control and is quoted and therefore correctly goes) to an environment variable inside the container. The environment shows the correct value. From that point it goes to Ruby (not in my control), and judging by the comments in conf…

For what it’s worth, I think I was bit by this issue as well. I had the following in app.yml DISCOURSE_DB_PASSWORD: ‘pn4&?.%d5=6#^4*f=;’ After changing the password to something more reasonable I was able to complete the seeding step and launch the app.

Discourse+Docker+AWS - "bootstrap" talks to DB fine, "run" doesn't

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riking (Kane York) 13.Апрель.2015 01:59:07 6

That’s a YAML comment, the fix is to do this:

  key: "value#"

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Discourse+Docker+AWS - "bootstrap" talks to DB fine, "run" doesn't

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