How do you get to the Nginx configuration

BarveyHirdman

I wanted to reply to this

As shown above, mine is incorrect so that shouldnt make a difference. But you might want to change it anyway just in case it is causing a problem.

But apparently I didn't.

kevin

oh i see. yeah no matter what i write into that line it doesnt seem to make a difference to the website. weird.

yeah at this point i'm stumped. I have no idea why @barveyhirdman can see my website performing correctly and I can't. Not on my computer or my iphone.

i can send you a sudo username and you can muck around if you want.

BarveyHirdman

@kevin just an idea, which actually helped me:

Edit your public/config.json file:

{
    "relative-path": "",
    "websocket": {
        "address": "198.199.96.7",
        "port": "4567"
    }
}

I'm not sure but maybe it's possible the websocket connection goes to some place it's not getting picked up.

kevin

@BarveyHirdman

wrote that in root/mynodebb/public/config.json
restarted node and nginx
nothing....

BarveyHirdman

I'm stuck to be honest, I'll try and think about this some more when I get home.

Scuzz

It means that the root directory that I have told you to change does not matter.
Some misinformation on my side, sorry.

@kevin The website is working fine for me now.

kevin

yay BarveyHirdman fixed it!!!

nginx was still out of date. I thought I updated it to 1.4.4
It's all better now.

Scuzz

@kevin

Hahaha...
I was going to ask if you updated but you said you did so i didn't.

Glad you got it working.

BarveyHirdman

@Scuzz Yeah turns out the nginx package was actually 1.4.4, but nginx-common and nginx-full were still 1.1.9. It can be confusing, I made the same mistake at home too.

julian

Darn -- that's what I get for not staying up until 4am in the morning.

As you have realized: root doesn't do anything in your nginx config. It was a relic left over from other config files I've used in the past (it's required for nginx serving php scripts, for example). Now, as we're using nginx as a proxy, the root directive is no longer required and can be safely omitted.

BarveyHirdman

@julian No worries, daytime for me is nighttime for you.

Batou

Damn, I was trying to understand this topic, just miss one f.. ;
and comment try_files $uri $uri/ /index.html;

snapsee

@BarveyHirdman said:

@kevin just an idea, which actually helped me:

Edit your public/config.json file:
{
    "relative-path": "",
    "websocket": {
        "address": "198.199.96.7",
        "port": "4567"
    }
}
I'm not sure but maybe it's possible the websocket connection goes to some place it's not getting picked up.

Is this response regarding the domain situation which requires a login even if you already logged in to one of the other ones?

For instance. I visited californiamotorcycleforum.com which is @kevin website without the www. I then logged in using the californiamotorcycleforum.com domain. After I did that I visited www.californiamotorcycleforum.com (using the www) and it required me to log in again.

I have the same problem on my site. www.snapseepc.com and snapseepc.com both require a log-in, even if you have visited the other site already and logged in.

So I have tried messing with my DNS forwarding, and that doesn't seem to work. It may be because we are running nginx, I am not 100% sure on that though. the nodebb forums don't have this problem because the domain is always the same. community.nodebb.org - there is no www.community.nodebb.org .

I think that a solution might be to set up a forward in one of the config files, does anybody know how to do something like that? Make it so the snapseepc.com domain will always forward to www.snapseepc.com

julian

@snapsee This is not a problem with nginx, it is because web servers and browsers consider "www.snapseepc.com" and "snapseepc.com" as separate sites.

You'll need to redirect requests for www.* to snapseepc.com, or vice versa.

snapsee

@julian you are correct. Once again thank you for all the help on the IRC. I just got my forward set up. Getting everything geared up to announce to my community of followers that we are ready for registration.