Switching to production mode breaks Erpnext (404 errors)

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This is how I’m trying to install erpnext on my vps running Ubuntu 22.04 LTS:

Add a new user

sudo adduser erpadmin

sudo usermod -aG sudo erpadmin

su - erpadmin

1. Update your system (Ubuntu)

sudo apt update && sudo apt -y full-upgrade

Now reboot:

sudo reboot

2. Install GIT

sudo apt-get install git

3. Install pythonc api

sudo apt-get install python3-dev

4. Install PIP and Setuptools for python

sudo apt-get install python3-setuptools python3-pip

5. Install virtual environment for python

sudo apt-get install virtualenv

6. Install MariaDB

sudo apt-get install software-properties-common

sudo apt install mariadb-server

7. Setup MariaDB’s root password and other settings

sudo mysql_secure_installation

$ Enter current password for root (enter for none): press enter here
$ Switch to unix_socket authentication [Y/n] n
$ Change the root password? [Y/n] y
$ New password: *enter your password here*
$ Re-enter new password: *enter your password here again*
$ Remove anonymous users? [Y/n] y
$ Disallow root login remotely? [Y/n] n
$ Remove test database and access to it? [Y/n] y
$ Reload privilege tables now? [Y/n] y

8. Install MYSQL C development library

sudo apt-get install libmysqlclient-dev

9. Edit MariaDB’s configuration file using nano (or vi whatever text editor you are comfortable with)

sudo nano /etc/mysql/mariadb.conf.d/50-server.cnf

Add the following to the file:

[server]
user = mysql
pid-file = /run/mysqld/mysqld.pid
socket = /run/mysqld/mysqld.sock
basedir = /usr
datadir = /var/lib/mysql
tmpdir = /tmp
lc-messages-dir = /usr/share/mysql
bind-address = 127.0.0.1
query_cache_size = 16M
log_error = /var/log/mysql/error.log

[mysqld]
innodb-file-format=barracuda
innodb-file-per-table=1
innodb-large-prefix=1
character-set-client-handshake = FALSE
character-set-server = utf8mb4
collation-server = utf8mb4_unicode_ci

[mysql]
default-character-set = utf8mb4

Now these find these lines in the file, it should be under # * Character sets and comment them out using # :

# character-set-server  = utf8mb4
# collation-server      = utf8mb4_general_ci

Press Ctrl+S to save the edited file and Ctrl+X to exit.

Now restart MYSQL again:

sudo service mysql restart

10. Install Redis server

sudo apt-get install redis-server

11. Install Node.js 14.X

sudo apt install curl

curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/creationix/nvm/master/install.sh | bash 

source ~/.profile

nvm install 14.15.0

12. Install NPM and Yarn (package managers)

sudo apt-get install npm

sudo npm install -g yarn

13. Install wkhtmltopdf

sudo apt-get install xvfb libfontconfig wkhtmltopdf

14. Install Bench

sudo -H pip3 install frappe-bench

bench --version

15. Initialize Bench

bench init frappe-bench

16. Create your site for Bench and set it as the default site for Bench

cd frappe-bench/

bench new-site erp.mysite.com

bench use erp.mysite.com

17. Install Erpnext your Bench site

bench get-app erpnext

bench --site erp.mysite.com install-app erpnext

18. Start your Bench and migrate your site

bench start

bench migrate

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Now everything works fine in development mode and I am able to login normally but when I try to switch to production mode, I run into multiple errors:

First I try normally switching to production mode using:

sudo bench setup production erpadmin

and it worked without any errors, then I ran:

bench restart

which returned:

$ supervisorctl restart frappe:
frappe: ERROR (no such group)
frappe: ERROR (no such group)

So I thought of rebooting my vps and trying again and unfortunately it didn’t work so I tried manually rebooting the vps from my dashboard and re-running bench restart and once again it threw up the same error.

Then I tried these following commands:

bench setup supervisor
sudo supervisorctl reread
sudo supervisorctl reload
sudo supervisorctl restart all

and I keeps throwing up the same frappe: ERROR (no such group) error.

The site (my ip without the 8000 port) was showing this:

Sorry We will be back soon.
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I finally rebooted my vps again ran bench restart again and it threw up the same error but when I checked my site again:

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I have been pulling my hair out trying to fix this production mode issue for the last week.
I am guessing this is a nginx config issue since the site is unable to pull some of the resources in the error logs as it seems?

HELP :sweat:

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Hi,

Try bench build , then bench update

What does bench version return?

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bench build and bench update ran without any hitch but did not do anything for me

erpnext 14.x.x-develop
frappe 14.x.x-develop

still the same :sweat:

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Since it is version 14, and still beta, that feature may not be implemented , although I believe some may have it running in production, perhaps by other means. @peterg ?

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Thanks it didn’t even cross my mind once. I’ll hit this thread up with an update after I downgrade.

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How do I install a specific version of erpnext/frappe? Currently I’m using sudo -H pip3 install frappe-bench and bench get-app erpnext, bench --site erp.mysite.com install-app erpnext to install the respective packages.

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You can try bench switch-to-branch version 13 frappe erpnext. See bench switch-to-branch --help

To install a specific branch at the outset , best to bench get-app --branch version-xx erpnext then install it to the site.

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In Frappe, “Production” isn’t a version-specific feature. It means that you’ve got nginx as a reverse proxy and supervisor as a process manager.

From the error messages being shown, I suspect that the system has misconfigured permissions. The place to check would be supervisor and nginx logs.

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I successfully migrated to version 13 but since then every bench command fails with some traceback errors so I went through a fresh install and I tried manually installing erpnext 13 and when I run bench get-app --branch version-13 erpnext it got stuck at Installing erpnext. I waited for like 2 hours straight and then gave up. bench get-app erpnext runs fine I don’t know why being branch specific is giving me so much trouble.

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The get-app or install-app --site erpnext hangs?
What does bench version return?

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It hangs only if I’m being version specific like bench get-app --branch version-13 erpnext or bench init --frappe-branch version-13 myfrappe

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So when bench get-app --branch version-13 erpnext hangs I just decided to wait for like 30 minutes (since I get no form of response from the console) and restarted my terminal and checked the bench version

erpnext 13.32.0
frappe 13.31.0

I decided to go forward with the installation the bench start was running on 0.0.0.0:8000 as opposed to <my ip address>:8000, I couldn’t open it since I’m using a vps, I proceeded to switch to production mode with sudo bench setup production erpadmin and once again the website came up with the same broken 404 page.
I am now fully convinced that this is a nginx issue and very close to giving up.

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You may also try to set maintenance mode off

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What does bench setup nginx return?

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$ bench setup nginx
nginx.conf already exists and this will overwrite it. Do you want to continue? [y/N]: y
Port configuration list:

Site erp.mysite.com assigned port: 80
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This did not do anything unfortunately

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Are you seeing the Your system is being updated message or 404. If the site is on port 80, not 8000 then the 404 would result, I think.

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Only the 404. 80 is the default port right?? I have seen everyone’s installation and port 80 is just your IP address (which is the way it should be when you switch to production mode I’m assuming).

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I even tried changing the default port to
bench set-nginx-port erp.mysite.com 8090

<my ip address>:8090 was showing the exact same 404 Sorry! We will be back soon page page.