#4987 Magazine - 503 Varnish errors when using admin portal
Closed: Fixed None Opened 8 years ago by jflory7.

= Bug Description =
When inside of the WordPress admin panel for the Fedora Magazine, I often get 503 errors and have trouble staying persistently connected / logged in. This is especially true when clearing out the comment queue, but I've run into the issue now where I cannot edit articles without timing in a few seconds after opening the article.

This doesn't seem to affect the front end, but the backend is difficult for me to use right now. I am unsure of whether this is widespread or localized to me.

= Bug Analysis =
I am unsure to the cause, but I have two cases where I received 503 errors from the Varnish cache server.

'''Cleaning out comments''':

  • 503 Backend fetch failed
  • Guru Mediation, XID: 27722808

'''Drafting an article''':

  • 503 Backend fetch failed
  • Guru Mediation, XID: 27367471

Reloading the page usually gets it to load back after two or three attempts, but when clearing comments, the next time I try to clear more, I receive this error, and when writing an article, I'll be notified within a few seconds that my connection was lost and my changes are being saved to my browser. Refreshing throws the error.

= Fix Recommendation =
Unsure of possible fix.


This is related to resource shortage on the magazine server.
I will be looking in moving it to a slightly bigger instance, and/or improve the current setup in another way later this week.

For now, I've been told that the issue is less pressing.

I think it's safe to say this ticket can be closed now. Someone either did something somewhere else that indirectly resolved this or it fixed itself. All seems well on my end now. :)

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