# Forum down, troubleshooting help needed

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/forum-down-troubleshooting-help-needed/274397
**Category:** Self-hosting
**Created:** [August 8, 2023, 7:17pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/forum-down-troubleshooting-help-needed/274397 "2023-08-08T19:17:08Z")
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### Author: ![Ed\_S](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/ed_s/32/134015_2.png) [@Ed\_S](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Ed_S)
#### Post date: [August 8, 2023, 8:35pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/forum-down-troubleshooting-help-needed/274397/17 "2023-08-08T20:35:45Z")

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Not sure what’s happening… if there’s nothing in the nginx error log, perhaps see over here:

> [@Discourse Went Down Suddenly. No one can log in](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-went-down-suddenly-no-one-can-log-in/272552/5):
>
> If you ssh to your server, and try
> 
> ```plaintext
> wget -q --timeout=3 https://localhost/privacy -O - |egrep generator
> 
> ```
> 
> does that work?
> 
> How about
> 
> ```plaintext
> wget -q --no-check-certificate --timeout=3 https://localhost/privacy -O - |egrep generator
> 
> ```
> 
> How about if you put your full URL in there instead of localhost? Try both versions of the command.

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