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Issue 105848 – Website: documents not loading Show all…

Type: Problem
State: Completed
Severity: Major
Priority: High
Found release: P.10.0
Fixed release: P.12.0
Description:

Some documents are not loading when attempting to display them. However, some seem to work fine. Examples given below.

Documents Display Correctly

Document Link
26-Mar-2026 technology report. test.nawg.co.uk/document/406483
2026 members' competition rules. test.nawg.co.uk/document/568368
Individual application form 2026. test.nawg.co.uk/document/490385

Documents Fail to Load

Document Links
Membership data improvements. test.nawg.co.uk/document/516641
Link magazine February 2026. test.nawg.co.uk/document/1260200
Newsletter January 2026. test.nawg.co.uk/document/2260100

This is quite serious because, for example, membership application forms cannot be displayed nor downloaded.

Resolution:

[21-Mar-2026 Kevin] Started investigating. The issue may be related to Cross-Origin Resource Sharing (CORS) policy.

[28-Mar-2026 Kevin] The problem seems to be related to temporary directories and files in "/var/lib/nginx/proxy/" having the wrong ownership: "www-data" rather than "nawg-sys". A hangover from before we changed the user account under which the NginX web server runs. Removing the old files and restarting the NginX service seems to have solved things.

[01-May-2026 Kevin] Tested remotely.

[10-May-2026 Kevin] Still working correctly in version P.13.1, so marking as resolved.

Reported by: Kevin Machin
Assigned to: Kevin Machin

Author: Kevin Machin ♦ Created: 17-Mar-2026 ♦ Access: public ♦ Issue: site-documents-not-loading