Issues with second instance of nodebb - unable to create posts

[codecowboy]

I've installed a second instance of NodeBB on a server (never done this before) and although I can see both sites, on the second instance, I cant create new posts or reply to existing ones. I'm seeing this in the firefox console which may be relevant?

'Firefox can't establish a connection to the server at ws://kommunity.mydomain.com/socket.io/?EIO=3&transport=websocket&sid=6RdV8TM7H1NGMSb5AAAU.

I did change the nodeBB socket in config.json. Is there something else I need to change? This particular server is Ubuntu and I'm using apache as a proxy

apache conf:

RewriteEngine On

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI}  ^/socket.io            [NC]
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} transport=websocket    [NC]
RewriteRule /(.*)           ws://127.0.0.1:4566/$1 [P,L]

ProxyPass / http://127.0.0.1:4566/
ProxyPassReverse / http://127.0.0.1:4566/

</VirtualHost>

[codecowboy]

So far I have tried the suggestion here:

https://community.nodebb.org/topic/8803/run-two-nodebb-forums-in-parallel-on-same-server

[julian]

Do the two forums on the same server have different domain names?

[codecowboy]

@julian yes.

[julian]

That is quite bizarre

Unfortunately I do not have experience with Apache, so unless you want to try nginx (which I think is kind of overkill of a solution), you'll have to see if anyone else can help...