PHP contact form returns 504 gateway error after moving to Digital Ocean

This one had me scratching my head for a while – using php7.0-fpm and the latest nginx on Debian 8 Jessie I was seeing our PHP contact form working correctly but returning a Gateway 504 error upon submission, which was resulting in a great deal of resubmitted forms and error notifications from users.

 

This only started occuring after we moved our site to Digital Ocean – it turns out that it was a IP priority issue and the following resolved it:

 

vim /etc/gai.conf

 

and uncommenting the following line:

 

precedence ::ffff:0:0/96  100

Then a reboot. Voila, the contact form worked properly again.


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