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Docs: Alleviate securecookie error in Pages

Katrin Leinweber requested to merge docs-trouble-shoot-securecookie-error into master

What does this MR do?

Summarizes some advice from @cat and @rvzon against a failure to enable access control for GitLab Pages. gitlab-pages/current shows:

{
  "error": "securecookie: error - caused by: securecookie: failed to generate random iv",
  "host": "…PAGES…DOMAIN…",
  "level": "error",
  "msg": "Failed to save the session",
  "path": "/",
  "state": "",
  "time": "…T…Z"
}
{
  "correlation_id": "",
  "duration_ms": 0,
  "host": "…PAGES…DOMAIN…",
  "level": "info",
  "method": "GET",
  "msg": "access",
  "pages_host": "…PAGES…DOMAIN…",

  "status": 500,

  "uri": "/",

}

Related issues

Internal tickets: 143580, 141658, 175110

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Edited by Katrin Leinweber

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