502 Bad Gateway - Newbie help needed

Installation
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I updated my forum to the latest version earlier this week and it was working fine - but then this morning I get 502 Bad Gateway message…

My technical knowledge is minimal and I’m wondering what could be the cause and how I resolve this?

For info, when I updated the site there initially seemed to be a problem but then it went through ok - but then I did not need to do this:

cd /var/discourse
git pull
./launcher rebuild app

which I normally do need to do for major updates… Could this be related to the problem?

Or could it be the problem is with Digital Ocean where the site is hosted? I see they are experiencing some problems.

Any advice on what I need to do get the site working again, much appreciated.

2

That error code is very generic…you need to check the logs and give us more information

3

Still battling with the 502 bad gateway error whenever i access the admin dashboard. I guess discourse needs to check their latest updates for bugs…

4

Thanks. Is there somewhere that tells me how to check the logs (my droplet is on Digital Ocean)? Sorry, as I said, my technical knowledge is minimal…

5

I’ve solved this by running:

cd /var/discourse
git pull
./launcher rebuild app

BTW, when I was updating to the latest versions a couple of days ago, I got a message half way through the install to say there was a problem… but then I waited and when I checked back it said all the updates were up to date… so I assumed all was ok. Anyway it is all working fine again now.

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