empty screen when connecting to openEdx

Question

I've set up tutor on a separate machine and have port 80 open for connection.

While running the docker containers I get the *_permissions of the containers fails - is this normal?

I then open the web up and I just have a blank screen. Caddy logs my attempts to connect but still nothing starts. what could be the problem?

Answer 1

I had the same problem and was fiddling around for a while :(

I'm not sure if we have the same initial situation, but I'd like to remarks some points, that helped me to find my solution:

1. The blank page is the default behavior of 'caddy'. So it is correct what you see in the logs...caddy reacts and delivers the blank page.
2. I noticed, that there is absolutely nothing else logged for tutor local logs -f...only entries of caddy. So this means my request was not forwarded to to the lms or cms...because otherwise, there should be logs from tutor_local-cms-1 or tutor_local-lms-1 But why?
3. My problem was, that the header information of the request for Host did not fit to the expected Host.
   • I have a proxy from a central nginx-instance...this listens to something like cms.my.domain.com & `lms.my.domain.com.
   • This has to be to the entry in the config.yml...clear!
   • But I forgot to tell nginx to forward that info by: proxy_set_header Host $host;