Tips to get 1.6.0 running after updating from 1.5.x

[manolino]

Hi guys, here some tips for who experimented problems after 1.5.x -> 1.6.0 upgrade.

Symtoms client-side:

• .jst generated only after a page refresh
• .jst not generated at all
• "Uncaught SyntaxError: Unexpected token < " message in browser console.
• Various failures messages in browser console loading from /assets/... routes.
• General requirejs errors like "require.js:34 GET https://yourdomain.com/ net::ERR_ABORTED".
• JS modules loading errors like "tag_assistant_compiled.js:119 GET https://yourdomain.com/ 503 (Service Unavailable)".

After various attempts and settings, I've identified that problems comes from NGINX settings. Reading nginx logs, in particular the error.log file, I found a clue.

The settings suggested in documentation or here in the forum doesn't work for me, some modifications and adjustments are required.

The key change is the adding of this to rules:

 proxy_headers_hash_bucket_size  64;
 proxy_headers_hash_max_size  512;

and other little modification was the re-arrangement of configuration blocks that now looks like:

#
# HTTPS server
#

server {
	listen 80;

	root /path/to/NodeBB;
	index index.html index.htm;

	server_name    yourdomain.com;
	return         302 https://$server_name$request_uri;
}

server {
	listen 443 ssl spdy;
	server_name yourdomain.com;

	ssl_certificate /etc/nginx/ssl/cert_chain.crt;
	ssl_certificate_key /etc/nginx/ssl/server.key;

	ssl_protocols TLSv1 TLSv1.1 TLSv1.2;
	ssl_ciphers 'AES128+EECDH:AES128+EDH';
	ssl_prefer_server_ciphers on;

	# This rules was moved here from location object 
	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 Host $http_host;
	proxy_set_header X-NginX-Proxy true;
	proxy_redirect off;

	# New fixes. Values are powers of 2, this works for me, you can increase.
	proxy_headers_hash_bucket_size  128;
	proxy_headers_hash_max_size  1024;

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

	location @nodebb {
		proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:4567;
	}

	location ~ ^/assets/(.*) {
		root /path/to/NodeBB/;
		try_files /build/public/$1 /public/$1 @nodebb;
	}

	location /plugins/ {
		root /path/to/NodeBB/build/public/;
		try_files $uri @nodebb;
	}

	location / {
                proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:4567;
	}
}

Hopings this helps someone of you.

Pura Vida!

[Adam Poniatowski]

I have the same issue.

I will give this a shot and see if this works.

[frgilb]

@Adam-Poniatowski: You might want to check browser-console-errors-after-v1-6-0-upgrade as well. I had the same issue, and I could solve it with a fix in nodebb.

[Adam Poniatowski]

@frgilb I'm not using cloudflare though (mentioned in the other thread you posted).

I haven't gotten around to doing this fix yet... but I will try it, when I have the time. work, work, work