Running nodebb on multiple ports on a single machine.

Siddharth Sarda

Hi, I am trying to run nodebb on a single machine on multiple ports as recommended here https://docs.nodebb.org/configuring/scaling/.

This is my config.json

{
    "url": "http://localhost:4567",
    "secret": "****",
    "database": "mongo",
    "mongo": {
        "host": "127.0.0.1",
        "port": "27017",
        "username": "nodebb",
        "password": "*********",
        "database": "nodebb",
        "uri": ""
    },
    "redis": {
        "host":"127.0.0.1",
        "port":"6379",
        "database": 0
    },
    "port": ["4567", "4568", "4569"]
}

I then run ./nodebb setup and my port value in my config.json gets overwritten. I tried to change the config and then run ./nodebb start but still no luck. I am on version 2.6.

What am I doing wrong?

<baris>

Your config.json should look like this for multiple ports

{
    "url": "http://example.org",
    "secret": "your-secret-goes-here",
    "database": "mongo",
    "port": [4567, 4568, 4569],
    "mongo": {
        "host": "127.0.0.1",
        "port": "27017",
        "database": "0"
    },
    "redis": {
        "host":"127.0.0.1",
        "port":"6379",
        "database": 0
    }
}

After ./nodebb setup modify config.json remove port from url and add the port array. Then use ./nodebb start to start nodebb. It should start up 3 nodejs processes, you can check if it worked with top