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After moving my app to Laravel Forge (Hetzler vps) code with defer stop working and site return 502 response and only that I can see in log - its PHP error log:
WARNING: [pool www] child 86918 exited with code 255 after 22.445599 seconds from start
Do you know what is missing on my new server?
PHP 8.3, Laravel 11.25
I have the same issue with Forge, but on a DigitalOcean server, with a slightly different error:
19011 recv() failed (104: Connection reset by peer) while reading response header from upstream
Did you find a solution? The 502 occurs as soon as I use defer, even for a simple Log::info()
Have the same issue in forge too. It worked as expected in dev (laravel herd)
what are you doing that takes 22 seconds?
@Snapey generate PDF and upload to FTP, but it less than 2 sec, don't know why its 22
Check if the swoole extension is installed on your server.
php -m | grep swoole
If it is installed, remove swoole.
@puklipo Thanks! I managed to get it working by disabling the swoole extension and then restarting PHP through Forge.
For anyone looking to do the same, I disabled it by moving it outside of the conf folder (in case it's needed again in future):
mv /etc/php/8.3/fpm/conf.d/25-swoole.ini /etc/php/8.3/fpm/25-swoole.ini
@Synt4x Thanks, this worked for me.
thanks for answer! will try this solution
@Synt4x Thank you! That fixed the issue!
@puklipo Thank you!
If you need a work-around without changing the server config, Use the Concurrency facade.
Concurrency::defer(function() use ($var1) {
logger()->info('deferred');
});
Dont uninstall Swoole. Just make sure you are importing the correct function.
use function Illuminate\Support\defer;
@gklincarski one of a kind 👏
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