NodeBB Assets - Object Storage

phenomlab

@baris Thanks !! Really appreciated. Will give this a whirl..

phenomlab

@baris Trying this now, and see traffic building on my CDN, but according to the network tab in Chrome, it's still pulling from my server ?

<baris>

What is the url of the requested file? And is privateUploads turned on in your settings? I think this plugin doesn't work if uploaded files are private. https://github.com/NodeBB/nodebb-plugin-cdn/commit/59a069827340e718d860a3ecf458b9a01ffc4711

phenomlab

@baris I've set the URL to https://cdn.sudonix.dev and uploads are not private. The URL of the requested assets in this case should be https://cdn.sudonix.dev but are in fact https://sudonix.dev

<baris>

What about the instructions on https://github.com/NodeBB/nodebb-plugin-cdn/blob/master/docs/nginx.md?

phenomlab

@baris Tried those, and landed up hosing my DEV environment have had to remove this plugin. I'll try it again at some point, but it's way more complex than it should be in my view sadly.

PitaJ

The CDN plugin uses redirects. It doesn't need the nginx stuff, that's just optimization. (nginx is much better at a simple redirect rule than nodejs) I'm not sure exactly what you're doing in the browser console but it's likely you will still get initial requests to your NodeBB domain, especially if your cache is disabled like the browser tools often does when open.

phenomlab

@PitaJ thanks, but the "redirects" don't seem to work. After making changes to nginx it completely skewered my forum and I had to use the cli to disable.

PitaJ

@phenomlab yeah I'd get it working without nginx first. What exactly do you see in your browser network tab?

phenomlab

@PitaJ the origin URL which is odd as I'd expect the redirect to show up.

phenomlab

@baris Any ideas to to how I can remove the entries for this plugin or at least remove the tick that enables the redirect? I've uninstalled and reinstalled it, but the forum crashes and I can't make any changes.

PitaJ

@phenomlab try clearing your cache. You can deactivate the plugin with ./nodebb reset -p @nodebb/nodebb-plugin-cdn

phenomlab

@PitaJ thanks. I've used that command on the cli to disable which seems to work fine but removing and reinstalling seems to retain the existing values.

phenomlab

@PitaJ clearing the cache doesn't work - neither does an incognito tab. Looks like the value has to be removed from the database, or perhaps a way of leaving the plugin active but disabling the redirect

<baris>

You can delete this key from the database 'plugin_cdn:settings'

phenomlab

@baris is there a specific command in MongoDB to remove this?

<baris>

db.objects.remove({_key: "plugin_cdn:settings"});

phenomlab

@baris thanks

phenomlab

@baris @PitaJ even stripping my Dev config back to just NodeBB with no nginx, it still doesn't work. All that happens is that the plugin crashes the admin console. Can't see any real reason for this in the logs either

PitaJ

@phenomlab what does crashing the admin console look like? And if you had any CDN stuff in your nginx config you'll need to clear you're cache again. Try a different browser if you haven't already.

The CDN plugin doesn't store anything in the database except for the settings key you've already deleted. You will need to restart NodeBB after deleting the key in order for that to take effect.