Only Blank Page showing at first visit

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Since some months I have this weird problem:
At the first visit per day at my forum, it will only show a blank page with the background color of the current theme
this also happens if you clear my browser cache (i.e. via CTRL + F5)
after a site reload, the forum will show just fine

the browser console will show this:

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(this is a screenshot after I commented every plugin out and rebuild discourse)

Some informations about my installation:
I’m always running the latest Beta version of Discourse via the recommended Docker Install Guide
Using this templates:

templates:
  - "templates/postgres.template.yml"
  - "templates/redis.template.yml"
  - "templates/web.template.yml"
  - "templates/web.ratelimited.template.yml"
  #- "templates/web.ssl.template.yml"
  #- "templates/web.letsencrypt.ssl.template.yml"
  - "templates/web.socketed.template.yml"
  - "templates/cloudflare.template.yml"

and with this plugins:

  • Docker Manager
  • Spoiler Alert
  • Staff Notes
  • Solved
  • Whos Online
  • Steam Login
  • Discourse Signatures
  • Discourse Cakeday
  • Backup to Dropbox
  • Discourse Data Explorer
  • Discourse Assign

I’m also using a Nginx Webserver on top of the Docker Image to proxy_pass Discourse:

  location / {
    proxy_pass http://unix:/var/discourse/shared/standalone/nginx.http.sock:;
    proxy_set_header Host $http_host;
    proxy_http_version 1.1;
    proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
    proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-Proto https;
  }

Our forum can be found at: https://www.kokoro-ko.de/

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I’d start by disabling plugins. Try safe mode.

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I enabled safe mode and now this happens:

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I also already commented every plugin out and the same happens, so I guess it has something to do with my Nginx Proxy Pass?

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Did you run ./launcher rebuild app after commenting out the plugins?

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I think I found the problem, since safe-mode still shows only a blank page I checked my Nginx logs more carefully and found this:

2017/06/03 14:38:39 [crit] 21647#21647: *45150 open() "/var/cache/nginx/proxy_temp/5/44/0000002445" failed (13: Permission denied) while reading upstream, client: 84.152.193.65, server: www.kokoro-ko.de, request: "GET /assets/vendor-199fce5a9e9895329b51b04605f1f5061951acb488baa6b2ea2fc2ae36def529.js HTTP/2.0", upstream: "http://unix:/var/discourse/shared/standalone/nginx.http.sock:/assets/vendor-199fce5a9e9895329b51b04605f1f5061951acb488baa6b2ea2fc2ae36def529.js", host: "www.kokoro-ko.de", referrer: "https://www.kokoro-ko.de/"

So I checked the folder permissions for /var/cache/nginx/proxy_temp/:

drwx------ 90 www-data www-data 4096 Jun  3 14:26 0
drwx------  3 nginx    nginx    4096 Jan  8 01:44 1
drwx------  3 nginx    nginx    4096 Jan  8 01:44 2
drwx------  3 nginx    nginx    4096 Jan  8 01:44 3
drwx------  3 nginx    nginx    4096 Jan  8 01:44 4
drwx------  3 nginx    nginx    4096 Jan  8 01:44 5
drwx------ 92 www-data www-data 4096 Mai 27 23:12 6
drwx------ 92 www-data www-data 4096 Mai 25 11:04 7
drwx------ 88 www-data www-data 4096 Jun  3 14:26 8
drwx------ 88 www-data www-data 4096 Jun  3 14:26 9

While my Nginx worker uses the www-data account
I adjusted the folder permissions and now it seems to work like it should

I need further testing for this but I didn’t know about safe-mode before which leaded me to the real issue!

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