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Brand new to Laravel and now Forge. Have just started to play and figure things out.
I had this strange situation today where my Laravel app seemed to become unresponsive (my browsers, Chrome and Firefox, would get connection timeout errors - also confirmed it wasn't a local network issue, was getting the same result from different networks/locations).
I tried doing things like restarting the server and resetting the deployment status (not really sure what that means). But none of these had any effect.
I noticed, however, that I was still able to SSH into the MySQL database! So I tried just restarting Nginx by itself - and that worked!
My question is - is it weird that a "Restart Server" didn't also somehow include a "Restart Nginx"?
Maybe it's just bad luck and I had some other weird issues temporarily affecting me at the same time that got resolved?
Where is this "Restart Server" action coming from? Forge? If Linux is frozen, it might not restart. All that most 'restart' buttons do is a soft reboot (instead of a hard reboot) so that you aren't just instantly turning your OS off.
That will fail if it's frozen or can't action it because of software. Nginx could of been causing that. See if it happens again.
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