Hi everyone, After updating my Discourse site to 3.5.0.beta8-dev, I’m suddenly getting a 521 “Web server is down” error when accessing the site through Cloudflare. This is unexpected since I had previously configured it according to this guide , and it had been working perfectly until now. Then I t…

I have never made the transition from private certificates to Let’s Encrypt with Discourse, and with that said… Within the app.yml, you will need to uncomment in two locations: Template line for - "templates/web.letsencrypt.ssl.template.yml" The Let’s Encrypt account email: ## If you added the…

Getting Cloudflare 521 Error After Upgrade to 3.5.0.beta8-dev

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Getting Cloudflare 521 Error After Upgrade to 3.5.0.beta8-dev

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