Hello,
I’m quite new to mattermost. I’ve been trying to install it on a Debian 8.
Everything is going well, my nginx is well configured as well as my mattermost installation.
I’ve been experiencing issue when I’m trying to run the mattermost daemon (/etc/init.d/mattermost). The service status says it’s active and working:
● mattermost.service - LSB: Mattermost Group Chat
Loaded: loaded (/etc/init.d/mattermost)
Active: active (exited) since Mon 2016-02-01 13:46:21 CET; 8min ago
Process: 3503 ExecStop=/etc/init.d/mattermost stop (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
Process: 3508 ExecStart=/etc/init.d/mattermost start (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
Feb 01 13:46:21 vps242230.ovh.net mattermost[3508]: Starting Mattermost: mattermost.
However, the website does not work. It only works when I run manually /opt/mattermost/bin/platform.
I see the request going trough nginx, but they do not seem to be forwarded to the mattermost daemon (I have a 502 error Bad gateway occuring).
Does anybody is experiencing the same issue ?
here is my service declaration from the documentation:
#! /bin/sh
### BEGIN INIT INFO
# Provides: mattermost
# Required-Start: $network $syslog
# Required-Stop: $network $syslog
# Default-Start: 2 3 4 5
# Default-Stop: 0 1 6
# Short-Description: Mattermost Group Chat
# Description: Mattermost: An open-source Slack
### END INIT INFO
PATH=/sbin:/usr/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin
DESC="Mattermost"
NAME=mattermost
MATTERMOST_ROOT=/opt/mattermost
MATTERMOST_GROUP=mattermost
MATTERMOST_USER=mattermost
DAEMON="$MATTERMOST_ROOT/bin/platform"
PIDFILE=/var/run/$NAME.pid
SCRIPTNAME=/etc/init.d/$NAME
. /lib/lsb/init-functions
do_start() {
# Return
# 0 if daemon has been started
# 1 if daemon was already running
# 2 if daemon could not be started
start-stop-daemon --start --quiet \
--chuid $MATTERMOST_USER:$MATTERMOST_GROUP --chdir $MATTERMOST_ROOT --background \
--pidfile $PIDFILE --exec $DAEMON --test > /dev/null \
|| return 1
start-stop-daemon --start --quiet \
--chuid $MATTERMOST_USER:$MATTERMOST_GROUP --chdir $MATTERMOST_ROOT --background \
--make-pidfile --pidfile $PIDFILE --exec $DAEMON \
|| return 2
}
#
# Function that stops the daemon/service
#
do_stop() {
# Return
# 0 if daemon has been stopped
# 1 if daemon was already stopped
# 2 if daemon could not be stopped
# other if a failure occurred
start-stop-daemon --stop --quiet --retry=TERM/30/KILL/5 \
--pidfile $PIDFILE --exec $DAEMON
RETVAL="$?"
[ "$RETVAL" = 2 ] && return 2
# Wait for children to finish too if this is a daemon that forks
# and if the daemon is only ever run from this initscript.
# If the above conditions are not satisfied then add some other code
# that waits for the process to drop all resources that could be
# needed by services started subsequently. A last resort is to
# sleep for some time.
start-stop-daemon --stop --quiet --oknodo --retry=0/30/KILL/5 \
--exec $DAEMON
[ "$?" = 2 ] && return 2
# Many daemons don't delete their pidfiles when they exit.
rm -f $PIDFILE
return "$RETVAL"
}
case "$1" in
start)
[ "$VERBOSE" != no ] && log_daemon_msg "Starting $DESC" "$NAME"
do_start
case "$?" in
0|1) [ "$VERBOSE" != no ] && log_end_msg 0 ;;
2) [ "$VERBOSE" != no ] && log_end_msg 1 ;;
esac
;;
stop)
[ "$VERBOSE" != no ] && log_daemon_msg "Stopping $DESC" "$NAME"
do_stop
case "$?" in
0|1) [ "$VERBOSE" != no ] && log_end_msg 0 ;;
2) [ "$VERBOSE" != no ] && log_end_msg 1 ;;
esac
;;
status)
status_of_proc "$DAEMON" "$NAME" && exit 0 || exit $?
;;
restart|force-reload)
#
# If the "reload" option is implemented then remove the
# 'force-reload' alias
#
log_daemon_msg "Restarting $DESC" "$NAME"
do_stop
case "$?" in
0|1)
do_start
case "$?" in
0) log_end_msg 0 ;;
1) log_end_msg 1 ;; # Old process is still running
*) log_end_msg 1 ;; # Failed to start
esac
;;
*)
# Failed to stop
log_end_msg 1
;;
esac
;;
*)
echo "Usage: $SCRIPTNAME {start|stop|status|restart|force-reload}" >&2
exit 3
;;
esac
exit 0
Keep up the good work 
Regards,
Samir Boulil
