What is ‘Bad Gateway’ error on SHS/SHTS/TVET placement portal?
Barely hours after the Ghana Education Service released the school placement of students who sat for this year’s Basic Education Certificate Examination, the school placement portal https://cssps.govgh has been facing a Bad Gateway error.
The HTTP 502 Bad Gateway response status code according to Thisterm.com’s website developer means the computer school placement system portal is behind a proxy (e.g. a CDN, a Load Balancer, a Firewall) and it is not visible.
“In the case of the school placement portal powered by Cloudflare users are experiencing this downtime because the Cloudflare CDN can’t reach the cssps.gov.gh web server and the content can’t be served to users
502 Bad Gateway is a common HTTP error status code that occurs mostly due to server-side issues. That is, the error is related to the server of a website, and not the client (students checking their school placement’s browser).
Sometimes, Cloudflare can also trigger the 502 Bad Gateway error if it cannot reach the origin server or if its services are down. Though it’s a temporary error, it can appear quite frequently depending on the hosting provider and website setup,” the developer explained.
How to buy school placement card
1. Visit the Checker Cards website
2. Select the number of cards you want to buy.
3. Click on the “Buy Now” button.
4. Fill in the details by adding your First name, Last name, Phone number and E-mail address.
5. Scroll down and click on “Proceed To Payment”.
6. Select “Pay with Mobile Money” and enter your MoMo number.
7. Click on “Confirm”.
8. Approve payment on your phone by entering your Mobile Money Pin.
How to check school placement
1. Visit the CSSPS portal
2. Click on check placement
3. Enter your Index number
4. Enter your 10 digit E-voucher pin and
5. Enter your 5-digit PIN code
6. Click on Proceed and wait a few minutes for the next window to display your school placement.
How to do self-placement
1. Visit the CSSPS portal
2. Then select the check placement module on the left-hand side
3. Enter your BECE Index Number (eg. 100000000023) and
4. Enter your 10 digit E-voucher pin and
5. Enter your 5-digit PIN code
6. Click on Proceed to be redirected to the self-placement module
When redirected successfully to the Self-placement module, you will be provided with a selection of schools to pick from based on the aggregate or grade you had in the Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE).
7. Choose carefully your desired second-cycle school
8. Choose your residential preference (Day/Boarding).
9. Select your programme of choice
10. After doing all the necessary checks, confirm and print. Remember that once you have completed the selection process it can not be undone or changed