Ajaxify interfering with links outside of NodeBB

phenomlab

@julian It's correct, yes, as Ghost works fine. However, I've worked around this by placing ghost into https://content.sudonix.com which works fine

phenomlab

@phenomlab @julian and now the issue I have is that previously published articles that I was tested with are recorded in the MongoDB. Is there a way these can be removed ? The problem here is that Ghost and NodeBB think they have been published when in fact they have not. I guess I need to modify the DB directly, but have no idea where to start with MongoDB

I thought that perhaps uninstalling the plugin and reinstalling would strip the older entries, but this does not work.

julian

@phenomlab Now that is a harder problem to solve

Let me test to see if there's a bug with ajaxify and relative paths.

phenomlab

@julian A quick workaround would be to delete from the database and re-publish. The problem with that is I don't know how to do this - not being overly familiar with the intricate structure of MongoDB.

And, to be clear, I am now using Ghost at https://content.sudonix.com which works fine - the link to the actual article in the NodeBB post works as it should do, so it looks as though attempting to use a sibdirectory does not work owing to NodeBB's insistence that it should route that path internally

julian

@phenomlab I'm trying this locally, and the routing seems fine...

If my forum is hosted on /forum and I make a link to /test/foobar, clicking said link will attempt to open it as a new page, not internally.

What did the link structure look like on your site before you switched Ghost over to content.sudonix.com?

phenomlab

@julian See https://community.nodebb.org/post/86030 for the NGINX config.

julian

@phenomlab If you want to blow up the internal hash for blog comments, you can likely just delete the blog-comments object in Mongo. Back up your DB first, I have no idea what side-effects there will be.

db.objects.deleteMany({ _key: "blog-comments" });

That key stores the Ghost comment ID reference to the topic ID.

phenomlab

@julian Perfect. Thanks - works as intended and has allowed me to recreate the associations.

julian

@phenomlab Right, ok, I looked at the nginx config, and I can see that it is configured so NodeBB thinks it is at root level.

... which it is, which is why NodeBB thinks it owns /content and hence why it tries to ajaxify into it, because NodeBB does not expect a mounted route within NodeBB's realm of control that doesn't belong to NodeBB.

phenomlab

@julian Fair enough - no issues for me - simply cosmetic, but not essential, so content.sudonix.com works fine for me.

Thanks very much for looking into this, and providing the database command.

julian

@phenomlab You're welcome. I don't frequent this board often enough... Need to pick up the slack