[Archivesspace_Users_Group] ASpace upgrade: "Connection to backend failed"

Mon Jul 27 10:54:57 EDT 2020

All,

I'm trying to practice upgrading ASpace (2.5.1 --> 2.8.0) in a Vagrant 
box before upgrading for real.

I was having problems running the /scripts/database-setup.sh migration 
script via my Vagrant file, and, as with Vagrant, Ansible, etc. found 
myself spending lots of time troubleshooting the script I've written to 
install the software, when I could have just installed the software!

So now I have my Vagrant box up and running, I SSH in and run 
/scripts/database-setup.sh without any problem.

BUT now that I've kicked this can down the road, the next issue is:

When I go to boot up ASpace, I end up with the following error:

    INFO: DEBUG: resetting rack response due exception
    E, [2020-07-25T15:57:06.898049 #38438] ERROR -- : Thread-2004:
    Connection to backend failed (<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD
    HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">

I read that if the schema in the DB does not match the schema in the 
ASpace codebase, the backend will not start.

And yet, the setup-database.sh migration script ran without error, so at 
this point the schemas should be in sync.

Any advice on how to get the backend up and running greatly appreciated,

Mark

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Mark Cyzyk, M.A., M.L.S.
Library Applications Group
The Sheridan Libraries
The Johns Hopkins University
mcyzyk at jhu.edu

Verba volant, scripta manent.

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