How to recover from FATAL: Failed to reach replication service?

[elipp]

Hello,

after an apparently successful (~48-hour) import, I seem to have misconfigured my REPLICATION_URL. How would one update that env variable and carry on? Using mediagis/nominatim:4.2.

2023-01-31 07:29:05: Checking database
Checking database connection ... OK
Checking for placex table ... OK
Checking for placex content ... OK
Checking that tokenizer works ... OK
Checking for wikipedia/wikidata data ... WARNING

Wikipedia/Wikidata importance tables missing.
Quality of search results may be degraded. Reverse geocoding is unaffected.
See https://nominatim.org/release-docs/latest/admin/Import/#wikipediawikidata-rankings

Checking indexing status ... OK
Checking that database indexes are complete ... OK
Checking that all database indexes are valid ... OK
Checking TIGER external data table. ... not applicable
+ '[' https://download.geofabrik.de/europe/europe-updates/ '!=' '' ']'
+ sudo -E -u nominatim nominatim replication --init
2023-01-31 07:29:08: Using project directory: /nominatim
2023-01-31 07:29:08: Initialising replication updates
2023-01-31 07:29:09: Cannot reach the configured replication service 'https://download.geofabrik.de/europe/europe-updates/'.
Does the URL point to a directory containing OSM update data?
2023-01-31 07:29:09: FATAL: Failed to reach replication service

[elipp]

Just to let anyone interested know, I managed to work around the issue by doing a touch /var/lib/postgresql/14/main/import-finished into the (in my case bind-mounted) volume and simply firing up a new container with -e FREEZE=true. Judging by start.sh, existence of that file is what determines whether the import needs to be redone or not.