in 1.5.0 entering www. gives error "Looks like your connection to [sitename] was lost, please wait while we try to reconnect."

MJ

Entering www before the URL gives the error Looks like your connection to [sitename] was lost, please wait while we try to reconnect.

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Also users can't post something or make new topics.

Things I did

Turning off all plugins
Set CSS to default
./nodebb restart
./nodebb build
./nodebb stop - ./nodebb start

Nothing seems to work. Does anyone has this issue to and knows how to fix it?

PitaJ

The best solution is to just redirect users from www.example.com to example.com instead of serving NodeBB on both. This error is due to the origin restrictions we added as a security fix. On nginx this redirect is done like so:

return https://example.com;

julian

I'd personally use a 302 just in case.

return 302 http://domain.tld$request_uri;

MJ

@PitaJ said in in 1.5.0 entering www. gives error "Looks like your connection to [sitename] was lost, please wait while we try to reconnect.":

The best solution is to just redirect users from www.example.com to example.com instead of serving NodeBB on both. This error is due to the origin restrictions we added as a security fix. On nginx this redirect is done like so:
return https://example.com 301;

where must I add this? In the ACP?

PitaJ

No it's added in your nginx config. It should actually be like what julian said above, though.

MJ

@PitaJ said in in 1.5.0 entering www. gives error "Looks like your connection to [sitename] was lost, please wait while we try to reconnect.":

No it's added in your nginx config. It should actually be like what julian said above, though.

How do I change the nginx config?
I'm sorry I ask a lot, but this s totally new for me..

PitaJ

How did you set up NodeBB in the first place? The nginx config is located at /etc/nginx/sites-available/ and will be called something like nodebb or example.com

MJ

@PitaJ said in in 1.5.0 entering www. gives error "Looks like your connection to [sitename] was lost, please wait while we try to reconnect.":

How did you set up NodeBB in the first place?

A friend of me did, but I'm trying to do every time a little bit more myself... well... with a lot of help from you guys

@PitaJ said in in 1.5.0 entering www. gives error "Looks like your connection to [sitename] was lost, please wait while we try to reconnect.":

The nginx config is located at /etc/nginx/sites-available/ and will be called something like nodebb or example.com

Thank you, I go try

MJ

I can't see it. I looked in

/etc/
/usr/local/
/usr/local/etc/

but I can't find a folder of nginx.

If I check my website on https://builtwith.com I can't see Nginx also.

See yourself https://builtwith.com/keen.wtf

Does it mean I don't have Nginx installed?

PitaJ

@MJ most likely, yes. You could be using apache or something else instead, or possibly nothing. Did you set up the DNS records? It could also possibly just have NodeBB running on port 80 and use DNS records.

teh_g

I did the nginx config and setup my DNS to forward www.gamingexodus.com to gamingexodus.com.

julian

Alternatively... I suppose @MJ can put this in his config.json:

{
  ...
  "socket.io": {
    "origins": "http://domain.tld:* http://www.domain.tld:*"
  }
  ...
}

MJ

@julian said in in 1.5.0 entering www. gives error "Looks like your connection to [sitename] was lost, please wait while we try to reconnect.":

"socket.io": {
"origins": "http://domain.tld http://www.domain.tld:*"
}
...

If I do this, I get this when I start up NodeBB

/root/nodebb/node_modules/nconf/lib/nconf/stores/file.js:160
    throw new Error("Error parsing your configuration file: [" + this.file + ']: ' + ex.message);
    ^

Error: Error parsing your configuration file: [/root/nodebb/config.json]: Unexpected string
    at File.loadSync (/root/nodebb/node_modules/nconf/lib/nconf/stores/file.js:160:11)
    at Provider.add (/root/nodebb/node_modules/nconf/lib/nconf/provider.js:137:23)
    at Provider.file (/root/nodebb/node_modules/nconf/lib/nconf/provider.js:63:15)
    at Object.<anonymous> (/root/nodebb/loader.js:14:20)
    at Module._compile (module.js:409:26)
    at Object.Module._extensions..js (module.js:416:10)
    at Module.load (module.js:343:32)
    at Function.Module._load (module.js:300:12)
    at Function.Module.runMain (module.js:441:10)
    at startup (node.js:139:18)

MJ

I did make the file this

{
    "url": "http://keen.wtf",
    "secret": "2f00fc31-fcaf-473b-bc14-1192d075e68a",
    "database": "mongo",
    "port": 80,
    "mongo": {
        "host": "127.0.0.1",
        "port": "27017",
        "username": "nodebb",
        "database": "nodebb"
    "socket.io": {
    "origins": "http://keen.wtf.tld:* http://www.keen.wtf.tld:*"
  	}
    }
}

pichalite

@MJ remove the .tld. wtf is your tld

MJ

@pichalite said in in 1.5.0 entering www. gives error "Looks like your connection to [sitename] was lost, please wait while we try to reconnect.":

@MJ remove the .tld. wtf is your tld

Done this after ./nodebb start or ./nodebb build i get this

Starting NodeBB
"./nodebb stop" to stop the NodeBB server
"./nodebb log" to view server output
"./nodebb restart" to restart NodeBB

/root/nodebb/node_modules/nconf/lib/nconf/stores/file.js:160
throw new Error("Error parsing your configuration file: [" + this.file + ']: ' + ex.message);
^

Error: Error parsing your configuration file: [/root/nodebb/config.json]: Unexpected string
at File.loadSync (/root/nodebb/node_modules/nconf/lib/nconf/stores/file.js:160:11)
at Provider.add (/root/nodebb/node_modules/nconf/lib/nconf/provider.js:137:23)
at Provider.file (/root/nodebb/node_modules/nconf/lib/nconf/provider.js:63:15)
at Object.<anonymous> (/root/nodebb/loader.js:14:20)
at Module._compile (module.js:409:26)
at Object.Module._extensions..js (module.js:416:10)
at Module.load (module.js:343:32)
at Function.Module._load (module.js:300:12)
at Function.Module.runMain (module.js:441:10)
at startup (node.js:139:18)

teh_g

@MJ Looks like there is an error in the config file. You may have deleted a double quote or something on accident.

MJ

@teh_g I have this

{
    "url": "http://keen.wtf",
    "secret": "2f00fc31-fcaf-473b-bc14-1192d075e68a",
    "database": "mongo",
    "port": 80,
    "mongo": {
        "host": "127.0.0.1",
        "port": "27017",
        "username": "nodebb",
        "database": "nodebb"
    "socket.io": {
    "origins": "http://keen.wtf:* http://www.keen.wtf:*"
  	}
    }
}

PitaJ

@MJ you're missing a closing bracket for the mongo block

MJ

@PitaJ like this?

{
    "url": "http://keen.wtf",
    "secret": "2f00fc31-fcaf-473b-bc14-1192d075e68a",
    "database": "mongo",
    "port": 80,
    "mongo": {
        "host": "127.0.0.1",
        "port": "27017",
        "username": "nodebb",
        "database": "nodebb"
    }
    "socket.io": {
    "origins": "http://keen.wtf:* http://www.keen.wtf:*"
  	}
}