I searched through most of the past 502 error topics and haven’t gotten to the bottom of this problem. I have tried multiple times to rebuild discourse but it’s saying I don’t have enough memory. I have tried clearing memory with no luck. For the past 5 - 6 months I haven’t had any issues with me…

You could try to add to your rebuild command the --skip-prereqs flag (but be sure to have downloaded a backup and your app.yml beforehand, just in case)

If you are unable to shrink the 15GB in use your only option is more disk space. No matter what, there needs to be enough space for the tmp downloads during the rebuild process.

Glad it’s sorted out. (I much prefer to say “storage” when I mean disk space, and “memory” when I mean RAM.) In this case, your problem was a lack of storage space - and indeed, a 25G instance is quite small, but still practical for a small forum. It’s always true that upgrading (updating, rebuildi…

502 Bad Gateway - Unable to rebuild

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ethanjs (ethan23) October 7, 2023, 10:15pm 5

I was able to resolve this.

Thank you @Benjamin_D & @MarcP for reaching out to me. I appreciate you guys taking the time to write to me.

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