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@pitaj when I attempt to connect with ./nodebb start it rejects the connection

2021/03/03 03:25:54 [error] 4264#0: *54 connect() failed (111: Connection refused) while connecting to upstream, client: 98.212.156.155, server: forum.overseers.in.ua, request: "GET /socket.io/?EIO=3&transport=polling&t=NVs7j_e HTTP/1.1", upstream: "http://127.0.0.1:8081/socket.io/?EIO=3&transport=polling&t=NVs7j_e", host: "forum.overseers.in.ua", referrer: "https://forum.overseers.in.ua/"

NodeBB logs are OK:

3/3 03:26 [5099] - info: NodeBB Ready
3/3 03:26 [5099] - info: Enabling 'trust proxy'
3/3 03:26 [5099] - info: NodeBB is now listening on: 0.0.0.0:8081

I did not touch Nginx config. It's the same without any changes from 2017.

@inna first let me explain how these tokens work

[[admin/menu:alerts.version, 1.2.3]]

This is a translation token. It gets replaced with

Running NodeBB v1.2.3

So you don't need to have [[]] around {{}} if you want to print just the version:

{{ version }}

However, it looks like the version isn't exposed on the front-end. So you'll either need to hard code it (and update it whenever you update NodeBB), or use a plugin hook to expose it.

@inna you can try putting a console.log call in there to see whether it's executing. Is it still in the persona file?

What happens when you attempt to access with ./nodebb start? Do you get an error? Can you try sending a request to your forum with curl on the server (port 8081)?

Do you see anything in the logs? With ./nodebb slog do you see it start up normally?

@gotwf none, every 3 months login and update certificates through letsencrypt. That is all.

node app.js does not work, the same results as ./nodebb start

I did not change the configuration for NodeBB and Nginx, it's the same from 2017

config.json the most important part

"url": "https://forum.overseers.in.ua",
"port": "8081",

NodeBB: 1.0.2
NodeJS: 5.9.1

Also did not change them for a long period of time. Literally no changes in the system.

Yes. To make sure I have restarted the server even.

Why ./nodebb dev works? There is something less trivial in place...

The most confusing part for me, I did not touch the server for the past 2-3 months.

@inna yeah I recommend doing this in a custom plugin or theme, rather than editing the persona files directly.

Anyways, you'll need to import categories and meta as well like so:

const categories = require.main.require('./src/categories');
const meta = require.main.require('./src/meta');

Everything else looks right

@inna files in build are compilation artifacts. Don't edit anything in there.

What you want to do is add an HTML widget to your global footer. In your ACP go to Customize -> Widgets

Then add a widget to the global footer and put this in it:

[[admin/menu:alerts.version, {{ config.version }}]]

@nicolas have you tried killing all node processes, then starting?