How to go to the admin page when NodeBB running in offline LAN

George Young

Hi~ Our team want to run NodeBB as a forum in local area network, but when go to the admin page, the page can't be reached( other page runs well ), and the network error occured like this:

[23] - error: [acp] Failed to fetch latest version
       Error: connect ETIMEDOUT 13.250.168.23:443

So does there have any way to go to the admin page when NodeBB in an offline LAN?

PitaJ

@George-Young what version of NodeBB? That error is caught and shouldn't cause any issues.

The error is never passed down, this was fixed a while ago: https://github.com/NodeBB/NodeBB/blob/ff290880e279fbc448c0a9d0271bf11996b0a4f3/src/controllers/admin/dashboard.js#L53

George Young

"name": "nodebb",
"license": "GPL-3.0",
"description": "NodeBB Forum",
"version": "1.10.2",

and our nodebb docker image created date is 8 days ago

PitaJ

What is the actual network error you receive when requesting the admin page?

I imagine it's some kind of timeout, right? I also think you should be able to access /admin/general.

George Young

/admin/general Not Found

You seem to have stumbled upon a page that does not exist. Return to the home page.

PitaJ

@George-Young oops, sorry. I meant /admin/general/navigation

What about my other questions?

George Young

@PitaJ /admin/general/navigation & /admin are both timeout

PitaJ

@George-Young ok I'll add a timeout to that call so it doesn't automatically timeout the original request.

George Young

@PitaJ Thank you and I will build a new internal image for that commit ~