Production.log does not exist

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When i try and access my production.log file, using the following commands:

cd /var/discourse
tail shared/standalone/log/rails/production.log

tail: cannot open ‘shared/standalone/log/rails/production.log’ for reading: No such file or directory is returned form the command line.

Further, when i list contents in the shared directory, it comes up empty. Is there something wrong with the discourse i downloaded.

Side note, does the DISCOURSE_HOSTNAME: ‘discourse.example.com’ have to have discourse. at the front of the subdomain url. or is something like talk.example.com acceptable.

Thanks

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I think something is wrong with your install, because that command works fine for me

root@endoffice-a:~# cd /var/discourse
root@endoffice-a:/var/discourse# tail shared/standalone/log/rails/production.log
  Rendered application/_header.html.erb (0.1ms)
  Rendered common/_discourse_javascript.html.erb (0.1ms)
Completed 200 OK in 66ms (Views: 4.4ms | ActiveRecord: 15.2ms)
Started GET "/t/why-cant-programmers-program/612?page=10" for 84.201.133.46 at 2018-08-04 01:39:07 +0000
Processing by TopicsController#show as */*
  Parameters: {"page"=>"10", "slug"=>"why-cant-programmers-program", "topic_id"=>"612"}
  Rendering topics/show.html.erb within layouts/crawler
  Rendered topics/show.html.erb within layouts/crawler (2.3ms)
  Rendered layouts/_head.html.erb (0.2ms)
Completed 200 OK in 99ms (Views: 3.5ms | ActiveRecord: 20.2ms)
root@endoffice-a:/var/discourse#
3

What is your container config? (app.yml) - scrub out passwords.

4

As in remove the passwords?

5

I reinstalled and it still does not work

root@ubuntu-s-1vcpu-1gb-sfo2-01:/# cd /var/discourse
root@ubuntu-s-1vcpu-1gb-sfo2-01:/var/discourse# ls
bin   containers        discourse-setup  launcher   samples  shared     Vagrantfile
cids  discourse-doctor  image            README.md  scripts  templates
root@ubuntu-s-1vcpu-1gb-sfo2-01:/var/discourse# tail shared/standalone/log/rails/production.log
tail: cannot open 'shared/standalone/log/rails/production.log' for reading: No such file or directory
root@ubuntu-s-1vcpu-1gb-sfo2-01:/var/discourse# cd shared
root@ubuntu-s-1vcpu-1gb-sfo2-01:/var/discourse/shared# ls
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The launcher most likely failed early in the deploy/rebuild process. Try again and look for warnings or errors near the end. A successful installation should generate several pages of text while it’s rebuilding.

You should also check if it was able to make any docker containers with “docker ps -a” … it could be that there is a problem with docker (incompatible file systems for instance, discourse is set up to use overlayfs so you should put /var/discourse on a ext4 filesystem - Use the OverlayFS storage driver | Docker Documentation)

7

I don’t think Sam meant to remove them from app.yml and rebuild. But to redact them (and any other sensitive information) before posting its contents here.

8

Resolved. Was an issue with my SMTP password. I used my own password instead of the default one

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