Can't post, javascript not loading

Mike Kunkel

I received reports that our NodeBB forum was not working properly. When I checked, clicking the New Topic button does nothing. Clicking Login to enter the admin console opens a new tab saying "forbidden".
I checked the browser console and see two errors:

GET http://forum.server.com/nodebb.min.js?519f041b-2879-4a4d-9da5-5babe9232ee7 net::ERR_INCOMPLETE_CHUNKED_ENCODING

Uncaught ReferenceError: require is not defined at login:439

I'm not sure why nodebb.min.js is not loading. If I try to open that url in the browser, it does not work, but does work if I remove the query string.

I upgraded to latest NodeBB and it still doesn't work.

For more context, I had been doing some server maintenance last night and may have caused a problem. I changed nothing in the nginx config for NodeBB. I did reboot the server and had to manually start NodeBB.

Is it possible that there is a service that I also need to start manually? Help!

Mike Kunkel

I forgot to add something that could be important. I had upgraded nginx to 1.10.1. I believe it was 1.4.x before.

Mike Kunkel

This is resolved. For anyone who comes across this later, the solution was to downgrade nginx to 1.4.x. This is due to issues with websockets in later versions.

paviro

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julian

Well, this is new... and kind of concerning. I'm sure the nginx devs will receive reports of this and resolve it...

teh_g

I've got the latest nginx, 1.10.0, running on my server (coming down from Ubuntu 16.04) and have no issues.

Mike Kunkel

@julian I found this after re-reading the NodeBB NGINX configuration docs

nginx must be on version 1.4.x to properly support websockets. Debian/Ubuntu uses 1.2, although it will work there will be a reduction in functionality.

Previously, in the same doc:

NGINX version v1.3.13 or greater

I'm not sure if that is just a sign of an outdated doc, or if there is actually some type of incompatibility (which apparently doesn't surface everywhere). All I know is that by reverting to 1.4.x, all functionality was restored.