Installing NodeBB in a subfolder of another site

finid

Ok, @baris, @julian, @psychobunny, I think I've gone the whole nine yards on this. The problem is most likely that NodeBB is not at the state where it can be installed and work correctly in a subfolder. The best I've been able to get, is a blank home page with header links that don't work.

I'll just keep adding content to the live site and hope that somebody takes a shot at fixing it before it goes live.

If you guys want to use me as a test case, go right ahead!

finid

@julian, @baris

Is this something that's doable with NodeBB or should I opt for a subdomain installation?

<baris>

The last time I tried subfolder installation it was working fine, but I never tried it with nginx proxying. So I suggest you take out all the nginx proxying first and try it with http://domain.com:4567/forum if that is working then figure out proxying.

finid

@baris

The last time I tried subfolder installation it was working fine, but I never tried it with nginx proxying.

Accessing it from a subfolder with the port appended is not a problem, but that's not feasible for a public site,

And what do you make of the error messages from Chrome console below?

GET http://192.168.1.4/forum/404 404 (Not Found) 192.168.1.4/:25
Uncaught ReferenceError: io is not defined nodebb.min.js:7
Uncaught TypeError: Cannot set property 'initialLoad' of undefined 192.168.1.4/:270
Uncaught ReferenceError: templates is not defined nodebb.min.js:8
Uncaught TypeError: Cannot call method 'emit' of undefined

And what do you make of the fact that NodeBB is listening on the default port even after specifying during the installation stage that it not listen to the port. Could that be part of the problem?

Gurom

I have found the best solution for me.

I use the redirect rules in iptables of my cloud Ubuntu14.04.
The comand below will redirect port 80 to port 3000. Use your NodeBB at port 3000

sudo iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -i eth0 -p tcp --dport 80 -j REDIRECT --to-port 3000

The comand above will works up to next reboot. It means that you have to add the following string to
** /etc/rc.local file **

iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -i eth0 -p tcp --dport 80 -j REDIRECT --to-port 3000

Important

Check if your network interface use the name eth0. Perhaps you have to use other network interface (for example eth1... etc)

limitx3m

Has there been any advancement about displaying nodebb from .com/forum using nginx ?

Marc Manthey

@limitx3m said:

Has there been any advancement about displaying nodebb from .com/forum using nginx ?

I would be interested too

Huggy

Hey, noob here.

I'm looking at this myself has anyone made any progress?

I got setup yesterday, redirected to /forum using nginx, now need to fix the base url in html and I think may be onto something.

Thanks

Dave

thewheat

Actually yeah I've managed to install it in a subdirectory and run it via normal command line but I've got problems trying to get it to restart on reboot.

nginx/site-available/nodebb

	server {
		listen 80 default_server;
		listen [::]:80 default_server;
		root /var/www/;
		index index.html index.htm index.nginx-debian.html;        
		server_name _;
		location / {
			# First attempt to serve request as file, then
			# as directory, then fall back to displaying a 404.
			try_files $uri $uri/ =404;
		}
		location /forum {
			proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr;
			proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
			proxy_set_header Host $http_host;
			proxy_set_header X-NginX-Proxy true;

			proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:4567/forum;
			proxy_redirect off;

			# Socket.IO Support
			proxy_http_version 1.1;
			proxy_set_header Upgrade $http_upgrade;
			proxy_set_header Connection "upgrade";
	    }

	}

config.json

	{
	    "url": "http://localhost:4567/forum",
	    "secret": "insert_your_secret_here",
	    "database": "redis",
	    "redis": {
	        "host": "127.0.0.1",
	        "port": "6379",
	        "password": "insert_your_password_here",
	        "database": "0"
	    }
	}

In order to restart nodebb upon server restart I've used the init script based on
https://www.exratione.com/2013/02/nodejs-and-forever-as-a-service-simple-upstart-and-init-scripts-for-ubuntu/

Modifications/Important config below

SOURCE_DIR="/var/www/nodebb"
NODE_USER="nodejs_user";
APPLICATION_PATH="app.js"

#  ... other config 
start() {
    echo "Starting $NAME"
    #  sample forever command didn't seem to work
    #    forever 
    #      --pidFile $PIDFILE 
    #      -a 
    #      -l $LOGFILE 
    #      --minUptime $MIN_UPTIME 
    #      --spinSleepTime $SPIN_SLEEP_TIME 
    #      start $APPLICATION_PATH 2>&1 > /dev/null &

    sudo -u $NODE_USER relative_path=/forum upload_url=/forum/uploads/ forever --sourceDir $SOURCE_DIR --pidFile $PIDFILE -a -l $LOGFILE --minUptime $MIN_UPTIME --spinSleepTime $SPIN_SLEEP_TIME start $APPLICATION_PATH 2>&1 > /dev/null &

Not sure if that's the best way of doing it, but it seemed to work for me.

Edit: Seems that file/image upload is broken: it uploads to /uploads/ instead of /forum/uploads/. Still looking into that

Edit 2: Uploads fixed with relative_path=/forum upload_url=/forum/uploads/ in the script. Other problems found:

Can't stop forever via script (maybe something to do with log and pidfiles not being created)
Can't install plugins
Doesn't read from config.json but via environment variables passed in the init/forever script?

julian

I forked your topic so you will not be inadvertently resurrecting an old topic.

In my nginx config, I have the following lines that differ from yours:

location /forum/ {

and

proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:4567/forum/;

Perhaps altering those lines will help.

Violing

@julian said in Installing NodeBB in a subfolder of another site:

I forked your topic so you will not be inadvertently resurrecting an old topic.

In my nginx config, I have the following lines that differ from yours:
location /forum/ {
and
proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:4567/forum/;
Perhaps altering those lines will help.

config.json should be:

"url": "http://domain.com/forum",

nginx.conf should be:

  location ^~ /forum { 
        proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:4567;
 }

^~ /forum is important, not /forum

yariplus

@Violing ^~ is a regular expression override. If you require that, you are using a poorly written regular expression elsewhere in your config.

teotikalki

@Violing

I was able to make it work with /forum; no ^~ required. Given what @yariplus stated this seems relevant.
My conf:

location /forum/ {
      proxy_pass http://172.17.2.3:4567;
      proxy_redirect off;
      proxy_set_header Host $http_host;
       proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-Host $host;
       proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-Server $host;
      proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr;
      proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
       proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-Proto $scheme;
      proxy_set_header X-NginX-Proxy true;

      # Socket.IO Support
      proxy_http_version 1.1;
      proxy_set_header Upgrade $http_upgrade;
      proxy_set_header Connection "upgrade";
   }

Indented lines are ones that I copied from my other blocks that weren't present in the suggested.