Hi all, I’m having a bit of trouble with my discourse. My site is showing a 502 Bad Gateway on the home page like so, [image] Is there a way to get a more descriptive error message? Is there a way to start my instance without any plugins? Is there a page that will show the logs so I might be a…

ssh into the server (as you did when you first built the instance), navigate to /var/discourse and run ./launcher rebuild app

This almost certainly means you are not serving pages because the build didn’t complete successfully [image] vel: Is there a way to get better error messages? Yes, look at your build log first (printed to console) when you run the build command. There’s probably an error there. [image] …

[image] Robert: Yes, look at your build log first (printed to console) when you run the build command. There’s probably an error there. Hi Robert, I’m not using the command line but I upgraded through the site upgrade page. I’ve added a comment into my post. I also feel a slight duty to tes…

[image] vel: It was built by an auto installer. can you elaborate? that’s almost certainly not supported.

I had a prebuilt instance created and setup. It might have been a docker instance or image. I didn’t do any command line install. But I found a terminal with my hosting provider and I’m running that command now. I’ll report back.

[image] Robert: ssh into the server (as you did when you first built the instance), navigate to /var/discourse and run ./launcher rebuild app Just a suggestion. If it’s possible, can I run this command from the browser admin in the future. I don’t know if the update page does this already or …

Rebuilding worked. Took about one hour. Site is back. My host had an online terminal feature that I was able to use to rebuild.

Would still like to volunteer these ideas for those who use the browser to upgrade. Or even a note in the upgrade page, maybe a link to a help page that says, “If anything goes wrong with this upgrade start here.”

Getting a more descriptive error message from my instance

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vel October 21, 2024, 9:41pm 5

I didn’t ssh into the machine. It was built by an auto installer. But I’ll see if I can do that. Thanks.

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Getting a more descriptive error message from my instance

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