Kobo-install http/https/certificate nightmare

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@kobokuet, https://kf.yourdomain.tld/service_health/ is the most reliable way to know if the app is up&running. kobo-install scripts use this page to validate whether the app is running.
If kobo-install returns KoBoToolbox could not start... it means it receives something else that a HTTP 200 from the health check page.

It can be several possibilities. To identify the one, would you mind to edit this file kobo-install/helpers/network.py ? Go to line 150 and change this

            response = conn.getresponse()
            return response.status
        except:
            pass

to this

            response = conn.getresponse()
            print(str(response.msg))
            return response.status
        except (httplib.HTTPException, Exception) as e:
            print('ERROR', str(e))

Then try again ./run.py --info. It should give us more info about the issue you are facing.

You can also ping (and dig) kf.yourdomain.tld from the command line of the server you are running the KoBoInstall and see if values are ok.
Then, try telnet on port 443

Successful command should be

telnet kf.yourdomain.tld 443
Trying X.X.X.X...
Connected to kf.yourdomain.tld.
Escape character is '^]'.

Failure should look like something like that

telnet: Unable to connect to remote host: Connection refused

PS: You are right. The nginx warning is not related, it’s a known issue but does not block the app to run.

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