Logging in programmatically from another application

jewa

@julian I have been patiently waiting for a response. However, I tried to install nodebb on heroku. It was a painful process but I came to my wits ends when I got to the launch page. It says congratulations your nodebb has been setup but won't get past that page. It returns a 404 error whilst making a get request for /admin.

Here are the logs

2017-02-16T04:21:11.458766+00:00 app[web.1]:
2017-02-16T04:21:11.458782+00:00 app[web.1]: Starting NodeBB
2017-02-16T04:21:11.458916+00:00 app[web.1]: "./nodebb stop" to stop the NodeBB server
2017-02-16T04:21:11.458977+00:00 app[web.1]: "./nodebb log" to view server output
2017-02-16T04:21:11.459020+00:00 app[web.1]: "./nodebb restart" to restart NodeBB
2017-02-16T04:21:11.464363+00:00 app[web.1]: (node:4) DeprecationWarning: Calling an asynchronous function without callback is deprecated.
2017-02-16T04:21:11.464621+00:00 app[web.1]: (node:4) DeprecationWarning: Calling an asynchronous function without callback is deprecated.
2017-02-16T04:21:11.466271+00:00 app[web.1]: TypeError: Cannot read property 'apply' of undefined
2017-02-16T04:21:11.466272+00:00 app[web.1]: at /app/node_modules/async/lib/async.js:760:22
2017-02-16T04:21:11.466273+00:00 app[web.1]: at /app/node_modules/async/lib/async.js:166:37
2017-02-16T04:21:11.466274+00:00 app[web.1]: at /app/node_modules/async/lib/async.js:718:13
2017-02-16T04:21:11.466274+00:00 app[web.1]: at async.forEachOf.async.eachOf (/app/node_modules/async/lib/async.js:233:13)
2017-02-16T04:21:11.466275+00:00 app[web.1]: at _parallel (/app/node_modules/async/lib/async.js:717:9)
2017-02-16T04:21:11.466276+00:00 app[web.1]: at Object.async.parallel (/app/node_modules/async/lib/async.js:731:9)
2017-02-16T04:21:11.466277+00:00 app[web.1]: at launch (/app/install/web.js:121:8)
2017-02-16T04:21:11.466277+00:00 app[web.1]: at Layer.handle [as handle_request] (/app/node_modules/express/lib/router/layer.js:95:5)
2017-02-16T04:21:11.466278+00:00 app[web.1]: at next (/app/node_modules/express/lib/router/route.js:131:13)
2017-02-16T04:21:11.466279+00:00 app[web.1]: at Route.dispatch (/app/node_modules/express/lib/router/route.js:112:3)
2017-02-16T04:21:11.996384+00:00 heroku[web.1]: Process exited with status 0
2017-02-16T04:21:12.007390+00:00 heroku[web.1]: State changed from up to crashed
2017-02-16T04:21:12.340823+00:00 heroku[router]: at=error code=H10 desc="App crashed" method=GET path="/admin" host=xxx.herokuapp.com request_id=eb7cf3c5-60db-47a6-ba5f-11685c6d62a2 fwd="88.8.42.95" dyno= connect= service= status=503 bytes=

PitaJ

@jewa what Node version? Try Node 6 if you're on a newer version.

jewa

@PitaJ I am on node 6.9.2. I will uninstall that and install node 6.0.0.

Update I have tried it still returns the same error.

PitaJ

@jewa you shouldn't need to downgrade then. Any version of Node 6.x.x should work.

julian

@jewa That error doesn't seem related to logging in programmatically... sounds like you have a plugin or theme installed that relies on async v1... are you on the develop branch?

jewa

@julian I am on nodebb version 1.4.3 not sure if that is develop branch as I am not so good with git. Yes it is not related. I just wanted to isolate the cause of my failure to log in programmatically by hosting on Heroku and trying it from there.

I followed the steps here: https://community.nodebb.org/topic/9049/getting-nodebb-and-plugins-setup-with-heroku-and-mongodb

and then modified web.js line 34 inside the install folder to port = process.env.PORT || port; Otherwise, it would load at port 4567 which was always failing. I think I also added process.env.PORT to line 145 in loader.js but I don't think that changed anything much. It only started nodebb when I modified web.js

jewa

@julian @pitaJ So I burnt the whole thing down. Cloned version 1.3.0 and re-installed. It broke down without modifying web.js so I modified it and it gave me the same error as before. What do I do?

julian

Do not use Heroku as that is not a standard deployment environment for us.

jewa

@julian I have ditched Heroku. Deployed the app on cloud9 and it is working fine. I then try to use my plugin and I still get the same error. Here is the error on nodebb

at OAuth2Strategy._createOAuthError (/home/ubuntu/workspace/node_modules/nodebb-plugin-sso-oauth/node_modules/passport-oauth/node_modules/passport-oauth2/lib/strategy.js:379:17)
at /home/ubuntu/workspace/node_modules/nodebb-plugin-sso-oauth/node_modules/passport-oauth/node_modules/passport-oauth2/lib/strategy.js:166:45
at /home/ubuntu/workspace/node_modules/nodebb-plugin-sso-oauth/node_modules/passport-oauth/node_modules/passport-oauth2/node_modules/oauth/lib/oauth2.js:191:18
at passBackControl (/home/ubuntu/workspace/node_modules/nodebb-plugin-sso-oauth/node_modules/passport-oauth/node_modules/passport-oauth2/node_modules/oauth/lib/oauth2.js:132:9)
at IncomingMessage.<anonymous> (/home/ubuntu/workspace/node_modules/nodebb-plugin-sso-oauth/node_modules/passport-oauth/node_modules/passport-oauth2/node_modules/oauth/lib/oauth2.js:157:7)
at emitNone (events.js:72:20)
at IncomingMessage.emit (events.js:166:7)
at endReadableNT (_stream_readable.js:921:12)
at nextTickCallbackWith2Args (node.js:442:9)

I am really frustrated I have searched the internet for help the only help I get is with respect to a possible typo or firewall. My authorization codes are being created in my database it is just at the exchange point that the failure happens.

It is a pretty awful user experience to log into the forum after logging into my web app.

Would definitely be using nodebb for a stand-alone forum but this is me giving up after a 4 day battle. I might as well have built a very simple forum for my website in those 4 days. Ugh!!!

julian

@jewa Looks like you've cut off the error at the top there, so I can't see the issue.

jewa

@julian I have been struggling to replicate the error. But I would post it once I manage to replicate it.