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Unable to access 'Bam...' test discussion after fresh install

Hello,

I recently installed Vanilla and JsConnect for testing with our wordpress site. Its installed on a pretty vanilla Linux box with NGINX and php5-fpm, accessing a remote MySQL instance. I have a rather unusual error, the default 'Bam...' test discussion is only reachable about 50% of the time. The rest of the time, it gives a 404 error ?!?! Refreshing the page several times eventually causes it to load. So far I've been unable to find any errors in the logs - I'm at a loss to explain this behavior and would appreciate any help...

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  • hgtonighthgtonight ∞ · New Moderator

    I am guessing the remote mysql server is timing out.

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  • I can't seem to find any errors anywhere - are mysql errors/timeouts logged somewhere ? I'm going to try installing with a local DB, but in production we use a remote mysql cluster. So it would be nice if I could figure this out...

  • Hmm - it appears DB connectivity is the issue. Running directly against a local mysql seems to be fine. Hitting our HAProxy/Percona cluster causes issues.

  • hgtonighthgtonight ∞ · New Moderator

    I have successfully run Vanilla with a remote db cluster. I am guessing it is just a configuration issue.

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  • Still no joy on the remote DB. I'm not sure what could be mis-configured - it only asks for the basic host, user, pass, db stuff - if any of that was wrong, it won't have installed (or work at all).

    I 'feels' like a timeout of some sort - but even when it fails and gives 'no discussions found', it executes really fast - 14 queries in 0.055592060089111s according to the debug output. So its not waiting on a long timeout...

  • Think I figured it out - Vanilla is forcing discussions to be a myisam table so it can fulltext index it. This doesn't doesn't work with stock perconna xtradb configurations - it doesn't get replicated. So I only see the discussion when the query happens to run on the same db server the record was created on.

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