Welcome to nginx instead of start page

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After installing Discourse using the instructions in INSTALL-cloud.md, Juan_M_Cresc is experiencing issues where instead of reaching the Discourse start page, they are seeing a “Welcome to nginx” message on their website (foro.vuela.cc). Juan_M_Cresc also mentions that after a few minutes, they are redirected to an IP address instead of seeing the expected content. itsbhanusharma suggests that there may be an issue with the DNS configuration and asks Juan_M_Cresc to share how they configured their domain to point to the server IP.

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I have installed following instructions at:

/discourse/discourse/blob/master/docs/INSTALL-cloud.md

When I enter my website (foro.vuela.cc) I get a welcome message from nginx. This is the last output of the installation process:

  • /usr/bin/docker run --shm-size=512m -d --restart=always -e LANG=en_US.UTF-8 -e RAILS_ENV=production -e UNICORN_WORKERS=4 -e UNICORN_SIDEKIQS=1-e RUBY_GLOBAL_METHOD_CACHE_SIZE=131072 -e RUBY_GC_HEAP_GROWTH_MAX_SLOTS=40000 -e RUBY_GC_HEAP_INIT_SLOTS=400000 -e RUBY_GC_HEAP_OLDOBJECT_LIMIT_FACTOR=1.5 -e DISCOURSE_DB_SOCKET=/var/run/postgresql -e DISCOURSE_DB_HOST= -e DISCOURSE_DB_PORT= -e LETSENCRYPT_DIR=/shared/letsencrypt -e DISCOURSE_HOSTNAME=foro.vuela.cc -e DISCOURSE_DEVELOPER_EMAILS=juan.crescente@gmail.com -e DISCOURSE_SMTP_ADDRESS=smtp.mailgun.org -e DISCOURSE_SMTP_PORT=587 -e DISCOURSE_SMTP_USER_NAME=foro@foro.vuela.cc -e DISCOURSE_SMTP_PASSWORD=**** -e LETSENCRYPT_ACCOUNT_EMAIL=foro@foro.vuela.cc -h utils3-app -e DOCKER_HOST_IP=172.17.0.1 --name app -t -p 80:80 -p 443:443 -v /var/discourse/shared/standalone:/shared -v /var/discourse/shared/standalone/log/var-log:/var/log --mac-address 02:4d:d7:8a:b3:5a local_discourse/app /sbin/boot
    de521f3364e373f66a073eeb1f17fa75b37c28cc16f96b2733f862c490864d9d

What am I missing here? thanks!

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ls containers
app.yml app.yml.2018-09-17-130632.bak app.yml.2018-09-17-131102.bak app.yml.2018-09-17-131227.bak app.yml.2018-09-17-133742.bak

./launcher restart app

  • /usr/bin/docker stop -t 10 app
    app

starting up existing container

  • /usr/bin/docker start app
    app
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So after 3 or 4 minutes, it redirects to an IP instead of showing anything.

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Can You share how did you configure your domain to point at server IP? Seems like there is something wrong with the DNS.