While trying to upgrade Discourse via ./launcher rebuild app I get an issue with fatal: unable to access 'https://github.com/discourse/REPO.git/': Failed to connect to github.com port 443: Connection timed out However, the problem is: sometimes this fails even for discourse. But if you try to do i…

It would definitely help for you to be less vague with regards the provider you’re using. They vary wildly in terms of the complexity of their networks. It’s likely to take far longer to troubleshoot this blindfolded.

You don’t have exactly the problem stated in the thread you linked, and indeed you seem to have an intermittent problem, which is always the hardest to diagnose. But maybe you could try a manual fetch. I tried this, which is harmless: # cd /var/discourse/ # ./launcher enter app x86_64 arch detecte…

First try gave Connecting to github.com (github.com)|140.82.121.4|:443... failed: Connection timed out. Retrying. [image] Ed S: supported installation recipe Default installation method [image] Ed S: on a well-known hosting company? depends on how you define well-known, but this is …

OK, so it is at least trying to contact a reasonable IP address. I’d suspect something wrong with routing, or firewall, or something wrong at the hosting company level. If you rerun the test outside the container, you’ll see if you have a container-specific problem or more of a general linux probl…

[image] Ed S: If you rerun the test outside the container, you’ll see if you have a container-specific problem or more of a general linux problem. It’s a container specific one. I’m struggling to understand what could have caused this as I haven’t modified the container before and the site is…

Hmm, so, outside the container, you can run that test reliably? Perhaps you could share a sanitised version of your app.yml? (I have no ideas as to what might be going on, but maybe someone will spot something.) How old is the present installation - what version and what ID is it at, according to…

[image] Ed S: you can run that test reliably? yep [image] Ed S: could share a sanitised version of your app.yml? templates: - "templates/postgres.template.yml" - "templates/redis.template.yml" - "templates/web.template.yml" - "templates/web.ratelimited.template.yml" ## Uncomme…

[image] Stephen: to be less vague with regards the provider you’re using It’s not that I was trying to limit the information available, it’s more about whether the name will tell you anything since it’s not a western company. The instance was hosted by reg.ru , the largest hoster in Russia. An…

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It’s a container specific one. I’m struggling to understand what could have caused this as I haven’t modified the container before and the site is ~1.5 years old

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