Nginx has been banished!

[mark]

Hey all,

Sorry for the 'Welcome to nginx!' issues we've been seeing for a bit now. It was a server configuration issue that hit us when a webserver rebooted.

Basically when the machine rebooted, nginx (software that can act as a web server) started up and then when Apache (the software Dreamwidth code uses for a web server) tried to start, it failed because nginx had already started and registered on the ports (the way web server software gets your requests).

Again, sorry for the site issues. Everything should be back to happy-times now, so let us know if you see any issues!

Comments

[lethe1]

Thank you! I'm still seeing this message in a couple of older entries though: http://lethe1.dreamwidth.org/tag/videos (scroll down to 13 Nov. and 11 Nov.)

[ksyuhin_i_ya]

Thank you.

[cyanblack]

Спасибо, Марк, за ваш пост и внимание.
Сейчас проблем нет.

[davels]

Thank you.

[enter_pretty]

Hello,
This problem still exists in Safari. In Chrome everything is fine already.

upd. Afrer refreshing Safari it has fixed as well. Thanks a lot.

[gwendraith]

I was a bit flummoxed after logging off last night with everything okay and then this morning the nginx page appeared. I'd done the computer housekeeping yesterday (always do it on a Sunday) and knew I'd installed nothing new, so I rebooted and then everything was okay so I think that must have coincided with you fixing it. Thank you.

[alexsodin]

thanks

[cxcvi]

I didn't encounter this, but TIL that only one daemon can be listening on any given port. Useful to know. Thank you.

[yurikhan]

Thank you for being transparent about these things.

[pensnest]

Thank you! That is a relief.

[samuraiter]

Thank you. I was wondering what was happening there, but all is well now (using Firefox).

[jonathan_simba]

Thanks a lot!

[stringbasso]

Thanxxx!

[afrika]

any problems with the site, I think due to the influx of political refugees from Russian Federation.

[blackorange]

hi! thanks for keeping us informed.

i have a question, though. do you have any information that russian users have problems accessing site, not logging in, but just trying to open dreamwidth.org?

i permanently get the message that DNS is not available. i'm from moscow, russia

thanks

[scarletsoldier]

im actually still seeing it pop up when i try looking at fandom stocking

[greenfoxy]

Yes I'm back now. :-) I saw this morning DW was gone when I logged in. A late Merry Christmas and a happy New year!

[ebalai_khan]

Thanks for your info, I believed the problem was caused by a sudden outflux of Russian users from the Livejournal. We'll remember it as The Great Exodus.

[lexizli]

No problem! :-)

Mark, do you have a lot of new users from Russia last days?

[arkproject]

Thanks for all your hard work up through the holidays! I hope you guys have a good season!

[kamval]

Спасибо, Марк! Некоторые непонятки возникали из-за моих собственных ошибок. Стараюсь сам привыкнуть и освоиться.

[yostrov]

I've bought a Premium Paid Account. I hope it will help you!

[anaraine]

Thank you for all your hard work - especially during the holidays! All the best to you and yours. ♥

[rattfan]

I was still seeing them so have cleared my cache and history and basically reintroduced myself to Dreamwidth, so hope that works...Thought I was virused.

[romikchef]

Hello Mark!

Just in case you guys are curious what's the stampede with new registrations, LJ has just moved its servers from California to Russia and blocked a lot of journals along the move. So it's just another wave of refugees :)