My Problem

techabyte

Hey guys have been trying to figure out what my problem is but havent been able to fix it.

I have followed the doc with installing nodebb with installing the apache patch and all but everytime I run it I get a 500 error and / or running with port just gives me chrome cannot connect.

My setup is using ISPConfig3, Debian7

nodebb log shows no errors:

info: [meta/css] Minifying LESS/CSS
info: [sounds] Sounds OK
info: [themes] Compiling templates
info: [themes] Successfully compiled templates.
info: NodeBB attempting to listen on: 127.0.0.1:4567
info: NodeBB is now listening on: 127.0.0.1:4567
info: [meta/css] Done.
info: [meta/js] Compilation complete
info: NodeBB Ready

I have added this to my vhost all within </VirtualHost>:

ProxyRequests off

<Proxy *>
    Order deny,allow
    Allow from all
</Proxy>
ProxyPass /socket.io/1/websocket ws://127.0.0.1:4567/socket.io/1/websocket
ProxyPassReverse /socket.io/1/websocket ws://127.0.0.1:4567/socket.io/1/websocket

ProxyPass /socket.io/ http://127.0.0.1:4567/socket.io/
ProxyPassReverse /socket.io/ http://127.0.0.1:4567/socket.io/

ProxyPass / http://127.0.0.1:4567/
ProxyPassReverse / http://127.0.0.1:4567/

One thing I did notice while following the doc that:
sudo a2enmod proxy_html

that does not exist for me even after wstunnel patch. Would that be my issue?

julian

@techabyte Can you access the forum directly (using the IP and port number)?

techabyte

No I cannot it gives me same error that chome could not connect

julian

Can you change the bind_address in your config.json to 0.0.0.0?

techabyte

That now works thanks!, I updated and changed vhost 127.... to 0.0.0.0 tho I am still getting 500 error when trying to access the webpage without the port..

julian

@techabyte Not sure where to go with that one, as I've never tried setting up a NodeBB with apache proxy before... perhaps @planner can help?

techabyte

Okay, I seem to have solved it I was looking back at the insall docs the section:

Enable the necessary modules
sudo a2enmod proxy
sudo a2enmod proxy_html
sudo a2enmod proxy_wstunnel

Since I didnt have proxy_html (module doesnt exist) I did some searching on apache vhost proxy issues and saw a guide for something else that mentioned:

sude a2enmod proxy_http

enabled that restart apache now working I can access it via URL only

haha just a quick one I enabled emailer (local) for SMTP but once I click on the plugin to change settings it loads /admin/plugin/emailer-smtp but then changes to a 404. Is it bugged? (You are running NodeBB v0.4.3.) Everything else seems to be working

julian

Oh, that's a little weird, perhaps it's a typo, and should read "proxy_http" instead of "proxy_html"?

As for the local emailer, perhaps you can install @psychobunny's fork?

npm install git+https://github.com/psychobunny/nodebb-plugin-emailer-local