Card #2051 · Discourse Meta
Discourse rebuild fails due to GitHub HTTPS timeouts
Merchants are experiencing failures during the Discourse rebuild process because the bootstrap phase relies on HTTPS to fetch source code from GitHub, which is unstable in some network environments. They are seeking a way to use SSH for these operations to ensure reliable updates.
Pain score
0.24/ 1.00 · weighted product of four components
Reach1.00distinct authors (log-normalized)
Recency1.00freshness decay, half-life months
Engagement0.94upvotes + comments, normalized
Monetization0.50willingness-to-pay cues in evidence
§ Evidence — 3 verified quotes
The rebuild process fails during the bootstrap phase when Discourse attempts to update the application source from GitHub.
fatal: unable to access 'https://github.com/discourse/discourse.git/': SSL connection timeout
I am looking for a way to perform Discourse rebuilds using SSH, since SSH connectivity to GitHub works correctly in my environment
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