Please wait while we try to reconnect.

[Darwin]

Looks like your connection to NodeBB was lost, please wait while we try to reconnect.

I have made a fresh installation of NodeBB on Digitalocean with MongoDB and Nginx.

I do not know what went wrong or where and how to fix problems

Please me

[Duke]

Other than network issues, this will happen if the URL you are accessing the board through does not equal the URL in the /nodebb/config.json file.

EG: you are accessing http://www.domain.com through the browser but the config.json file has http://domain.com you will get that message.

In my nginx config, I have forwarded www.domain.com and domain.com to https://domain.com

In my config.json file I have
"url": "https://domain.com:4567"
or
"url": "https://domain.com"

if you are using NGINX (like me)
this way, no users will get that message because they are always redirected to my preferred URL.

Duke

[Darwin]

Swap file ".config.json.swp" already exists!
"config.json" 13L, 287C
Using swap file ".config.json.swp"
Original file "~/nodebb/config.json"
E308: Warning: Original file may have been changed
Recovery completed. Buffer contents equals file contents.
You may want to delete the .swp file now.

where do i find the config.json.swp??

[PitaJ]

@darwin when did this happen? That message isn't something that NodeBB did as far as I know.

[Darwin]

its a fresh install of NodeBB. but when i try to open the config.json by "vim config.json" in terminal

[Darwin]

after restarting NodeBB i was able to open config.json and make changes

from config.json
"url": "http://domain:4567",
"secret": "cb38071a-dfdb-4f6b-8633-88e0b80260f2",
"database": "mongo",
"mongo": {
"host": "127.0.0.1",
"port": "27017",

But i still have problem "Looks like your connection to NodeBB was lost, please wait while we try to reconnect."

[Darwin]

and after restarting NodeBB again it finally works... So Thanks Duke

[Bri]

@darwin said in Please wait while we try to reconnect.:

Swap file ".config.json.swp" already exists!

where do i find the config.json.swp??

This is a recovery mechanism in vim, and has nothing to do with NodeBB. Basically it is a buffer created as you’re editing a file and if your connection is lost or some other error happens, you can recover edits made before you last saved the file.

If this happens again, it’s a hidden file (note the ‘.’ at the beginning of the file name), use ls -a to see it.

[Duke]

@Darwin Unless you love VIM and want to learn it, try "Nano" it is installed by default and works the way most of us expect an editor to work

While VIM is an excellent editor, it has it's own learning curve.