Rebuilding the application makes forum unresponsive

[Marek_Wojtaszek]

I wanted to change my SMTP server password, so I followed the instruction here to update the variables:

Set Environmental Variables

This is a how-to guide that will walk you through the process of setting up environmental variables in a self-hosted Discourse Installation. Environmental variables are a crucial part of configuring your Discourse instance, and they can be used to store sensitive information such as API keys and database passwords. Adding environmental variables to a .yml (YAML) file is straightforward. Here’s a basic example: # This is a YAML file with environmental variabl…

After updating the app.yml file I ran the following commands:

@SaraDev

./launcher destroy app
./launcher start app

As soon as I run it-- my forum stops responding to https requests
Same happens when I rebuild the app, but it just takes much longer.

Please advise how I can troubleshoot that. I is pretty urgent as not no emails are being sent out

Thank you so much in advance for your advice!

[pfaffman (Jay Pfaffman)]

Stops responding how? Do you get an error? It can take a while for the server to start up, so maybe you’re just not waiting long enough? Can you share your URL?