Hi Discourse Community,
I’m having trouble rebuilding my Discourse instance on a Google Cloud Platform (GCP) VM (Ubuntu 22.04, 16GB RAM, 8 CPU cores). The rebuild fails due to a GitHub connection error, and I’m also facing issues with port 443 accessibility. I’ve tried several steps, but I’m stuck and would appreciate your help.
GitHub Connection Error During Rebuild
When running ./launcher rebuild app or ./discourse-setup, the rebuild fails with the following error in the logs:
fatal: unable to access ’ GitHub - discourse/discourse: A platform for community discussion. Free, open, simple. ': Failed to connect to github.com port 443 after 3 ms: Couldn’t connect to server
Pups::ExecError: cd /var/www/discourse && sudo -H -E -u discourse bash -c ‘… git fetch …’ failed with return #<Process::Status: pid 145 exit 128>
However, testing GitHub connectivity from the host works fine:
curl -I https://github.com
HTTP/2 200
But running as the discourse user fails:
sudo -u discourse -H git ls-remote GitHub - discourse/discourse: A platform for community discussion. Free, open, simple.
fatal: unable to access ’ GitHub - discourse/discourse: A platform for community discussion. Free, open, simple. ': Failed to connect to github.com port 443 after 3 ms: Couldn’t connect to server
DNS resolution for github.com works:
sudo -u discourse -H nslookup github.com 8.8.8.8
Server: 8.8.8.8
Address: 8.8.8.8#53
Name: github.com
Address: 192.30.255.113