So im following this guide to setup a offline page for when the forum goes down for whatever reason but ive run into 2 issues. The two issues im running into are that nginx is not redirecting 502 errors to the offline page and when both discourse and nginx are running i cant reach the forums. …

[image] fefrei: However, I also get a 403 when browsing https://forum.cubedcorps.net/errorpages/discourse_offline.html , so there must be some additional problem. Having a look at the Nginx log files might help you here :slight_smile: Selinux was just being a pain still XD [image] notriddl…

Weird! Are you 100% sure you’re talking to the right Nginx, and it is indeed reading the configuration you provide? When in doubt, I tend to replace everything in location / with something like return 410; (or some other unusual status code), checking whether I’m really served that status code.

i am indeed talking to the right nginx. Replacing everything in location / with return 410 results in a 410 error code

Hm, too bad, that’s always a nice and easy explanation :wink: Next, I’d try to debug this: [image] dje4321: when both discourse and nginx are running i cant reach the forums What happens if you try to access Discourse? What do the outer Nginx’s log files tell you about the request? Does any…

Totally forgot logs were a thing XD nginx access.log when i try and access the domain REDACTED - - [25/Feb/2018:10:30:53 +0000] "GET / HTTP/1.1" 502 173 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Fedora; Linux x86_64; rv:58.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/58.0" "-" REDACTED - - [25/Feb/2018:10:30:54 +0000] "GET /service-wo…

Okay, so something about the socket is fishy. Does the file /var/discourse/shared/standalone/nginx.http.sock exist (while Discourse is running)? Did you rebuild Discourse after modifying app.yml?

[image] fefrei: Okay, so something about the socket is fishy. Does the file /var/discourse/shared/standalone/nginx.http.sock exist (while Discourse is running)? permission | size | owner | group | date | name srw-rw-rw-@ 0 root root 25 Feb 8:33 nginx.http.sock [image] fefrei: …

Hm, in that case, I’m currently out of ideas. That looks fine, but obviously Nginx is having trouble connecting to it… :thinking:

Are you running with SELinux or AppArmor on the host system?

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notriddle (Michael Howell) February 25, 2018, 7:31pm 11

Try turning it off, then.

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