Setting up offline page

[dje4321]

So im following this guide to setup a offline page for when the forum goes down for whatever reason but ive run into 2 issues. The two issues im running into are that nginx is not redirecting 502 errors to the offline page and when both discourse and nginx are running i cant reach the forums.

Add an offline page to display when Discourse is rebuilding or starting up

This guide is intended for advanced users, who are already using nginx outside the docker container. By following this guide you make your setup more complicated and will loose some speed benefits like HTTP2 if you’re not running Ubuntu 16.04 or later. Proceed with caution! When Discourse is rebuilding or starting up, your users will usually either see an error message from their browser… [image] …or a not-so-nice 502 error message from Nginx: [image] If you’re a perfectionist l…

/etc/nginx/sites-available/default.conf
https://paste.fedoraproject.org/paste/e01vmM3pkI41nlZhzuDmuA/

/etc/nginx/nginx.conf
https://paste.fedoraproject.org/paste/B032qvRECjgrsvcjXCWc7g
NOTE: i added the include /etc/nginx/site-available/*.conf; line because it would only load the default config

/var/discourse/containers/app.yml
https://paste.fedoraproject.org/paste/DQxhGWvfD7MBUyYWGTpqxQ/

Any tips or advice for what i might be doing wrong?

[fefrei (Felix Freiberger)]

Weird! Are you 100% sure you’re talking to the right Nginx, and it is indeed reading the configuration you provide? When in doubt, I tend to replace everything in location / with something like return 410; (or some other unusual status code), checking whether I’m really served that status code.

[dje4321]

i am indeed talking to the right nginx. Replacing everything in location / with return 410 results in a 410 error code

[fefrei (Felix Freiberger)]

Hm, too bad, that’s always a nice and easy explanation

Next, I’d try to debug this:

@dje4321

when both discourse and nginx are running i cant reach the forums

What happens if you try to access Discourse? What do the outer Nginx’s log files tell you about the request? Does anything show up in the log files withing Discourse’s container?

[dje4321]

Totally forgot logs were a thing XD

nginx access.log when i try and access the domain

REDACTED - - [25/Feb/2018:10:30:53 +0000] "GET / HTTP/1.1" 502 173 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Fedora; Linux x86_64; rv:58.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/58.0" "-"
REDACTED - - [25/Feb/2018:10:30:54 +0000] "GET /service-worker-49bb49a79c0c56d327e5dc0c32ba4b6469a79f13f05a5e174c02f8cb5b1df7b3.js HTTP/1.1" 502 173 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Fedora; Linux x86_64; rv:58.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/58.0" "-"

error.log tells a different story

2018/02/25 10:30:54 [crit] 15312#15312: *15 connect() to unix:/var/discourse/shared/standalone/nginx.http.sock failed (13: Permission denied) while connecting to upstream, client: REDACTED server: forum.cubedcorps.net, request: "GET /service-worker-49bb49a79c0c56d327e5dc0c32ba4b6469a79f13f05a5e174c02f8cb5b1df7b3.js HTTP/1.1", upstream: "http://unix:/var/discourse/shared/standalone/nginx.http.sock:/var/www/errorpages/discourse_offline.html", host: "forum.cubedcorps.net"

nothing in the discourse logs

[fefrei (Felix Freiberger)]

Okay, so something about the socket is fishy. Does the file /var/discourse/shared/standalone/nginx.http.sock exist (while Discourse is running)?

Did you rebuild Discourse after modifying app.yml?

[dje4321]

@fefrei

Okay, so something about the socket is fishy. Does the file /var/discourse/shared/standalone/nginx.http.sock exist (while Discourse is running)?

permission | size | owner | group | date | name

srw-rw-rw-@ 0 root root 25 Feb 8:33 nginx.http.sock

@fefrei

Did you rebuild Discourse after modifying app.yml?

several times XD

[fefrei (Felix Freiberger)]

Hm, in that case, I’m currently out of ideas. That looks fine, but obviously Nginx is having trouble connecting to it…

[notriddle (Michael Howell)]

Are you running with SELinux or AppArmor on the host system?

[dje4321]

yes

[notriddle (Michael Howell)]

Try turning it off, then.

[dje4321]

Cool. That solved my issue. Only thing left is to figure out why nginx wont redirect 502 errors now

[fefrei (Felix Freiberger)]

Wohoo! Thanks, @notriddle!

The rest should be easy. You’re missing this bit of configuration:

location /errorpages/ {
    alias /var/www/errorpages/;
}

Without it, Nginx cannot find the error page it should serve

[dje4321]

i added the line but it does not seem to work

https://paste.fedoraproject.org/paste/DS781CCQ7vCuDMgT2ZD19Q

i did restart nginx to apply the change

[fefrei (Felix Freiberger)]

Your error_page directive also differs from the one in my instructions, you’ll need to correct that.

However, I also get a 403 when browsing https://forum.cubedcorps.net/errorpages/discourse_offline.html, so there must be some additional problem. Having a look at the Nginx log files might help you here

[dje4321]

@fefrei

However, I also get a 403 when browsing https://forum.cubedcorps.net/errorpages/discourse_offline.html, so there must be some additional problem. Having a look at the Nginx log files might help you here

Selinux was just being a pain still XD

@notriddle

Are you running with SELinux or AppArmor on the host system?

@notriddle

Try turning it off, then.

Thanks for all your help
Never used nginx before and this was a great learning experince