Wp-discourse SSL problem

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Elo Discoursers…

I have Discourse and Wordpress running on the same host, except that Discourse is inside a Docker container with Nginx setup “external” to docker using a reverse-proxy.

Installed wp-discourse on my Wordpress site, but it will not connect to Discourse.
I do have the API key from my Discourse instance and the correct URL entered into Wordpress, but when I hit Save …

  • IceCat browser says: Secure Connection Failed

  • Chromium says: No data received

  • Nginx log indicates:

SSL_shutdown() failed (SSL: error:140E0197:SSL routines:SSL_shutdown:shutdown while in init) while SSL handshaking

Discourse is installed using the Docker image. In my app.yml I have:

- "templates/web.socketed.template.yml"

… so the Nginx conf has:

    location / {
        proxy_pass http://unix:/var/discourse/shared/standalone/nginx.http.sock:;
        proxy_set_header Host $http_host;
        proxy_http_version 1.1;
        proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
        proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-Proto https;
    }

I am sure this is an SSL issue. The Letsencrypt certs are installed and configured in the “exernal” host through Nginx:

    ssl_certificate      /etc/letsencrypt/live/forum.librenet.co.za/fullchain.pem;
    ssl_certificate_key  /etc/letsencrypt/live/forum.librenet.co.za/privkey.pem;

I have no idea how to troubleshoot or fix this. Where could the problem be? Is it the Location (“proxy_pass”) directive?

Any input will be appreciated.

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Could you try installing this WordPress plugin to test your site’s TLS 1.2 compatibility?

Go to Tools/TLS 1.2 Compatibility test to run the test. You can run it with the PayPal API endpoint. I’ve run into problems when the php-curl extension isn’t installed on the server.

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Thanks for the input, Simon.

I have not done that test yet, but what I did do was upgrade Nginx to 1.12 (in the process I managed to nuke all my vhosts - so they all had to be recreated … >.<)

But after that exercise - wp-discourse shows connected!

So … unless there is an issue later with actual content moving between the apps, I think I’m all good for now :slight_smile:

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