Hi folks, I’m setting up some automation for deployment and migration with Ansible but I’ve got an issue with read-only mode. When I enabled read-only with: docker exec app discourse enable_readonly or ./launcher enter app discourse enable_readonly After ~1:20 the site exits read-only mode all…

Is the difference down to the read-only mode you’re using? [image] Read Only Modes in Discourse READONLY_MODE_KEY is mainly used for the backup and restore process and is triggered by the application itself. This mode can also be enabled or disabled from the the Discourse command line interface…

Did you check your logs? perhaps you have a background job or plugin somewhere that is interrupting the process.

Hi Lilly, Thanks for your response. This is a fresh default install and I’ve not installed any plugins or created any jobs. Which logs am I best to look at? Sorry I’m a bit of a noob. I’ve tried tail -f on: /var/discourse/shared/standalone/log/rails/unicorn.stdout.log /var/discourse/shared/standa…

I have had trouble using that as well, both for enabling and disabling readonly mode. The last time I ended up running Discourse.enable_readonly_mode in rails. It’s always an emergency when it happens and I haven’t investigated what the issue might be. FWIW, in my own Ansible tooling I don’t use r…

Thanks Jay. I suspect I’m taking an XY approach to the problem. I’ll check out the Post Deployment Migration. Thanks for that. I guess the other option might be to activate RO via an API call.

- name: post migrations shell: "docker exec {{ discourse_yml }} bash -c 'rake db:ensure_post_migrations db:migrate'" become: yes so this might work for read-only mode: - name: post migrations shell: "docker exec {{ discourse_yml }} bash -c 'echo Discourse.enable_readonly_mode | rails c" …

Thank you, much appreciated. I’ll give this a go tonight.

Thanks JammyDodger! The info and link were very helpful. I’m not sure what constitutes a container restart - as far as I know my container is not restarting every ~1:30 which is as long as the RO mode stays enabled when using discourse enable_readonly i.e. Discourse.enable_readonly_mode(Discourse::R…

For completeness: - name: Set read-only mode for live forum host ansible.builtin.shell: | docker exec app bash -c 'echo Discourse.enable_readonly_mode\(Discourse::USER_READONLY_MODE_KEY\) | rails c' register: enable_readonly_output

Site automatically exits read-only mode when enabled by 'discourse enable_readonly'

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JammyDodger February 28, 2024, 9:30pm 8

Is the difference down to the read-only mode you’re using?

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