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

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:*"
  	}
}

MJ

it gives same error

/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)

PitaJ

@MJ and you need a comma after the bracket. There are many many JSON validators and editors available through the internet. Use them, they'll make things easier.

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.":

@MJ and you need a comma after the bracket. There are many many JSON validators and editors available through the internet. Use them, they'll make things easier.

I searched for It and I found one thank you sir

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.":

Alternatively... I suppose @MJ can put this in his config.json:
{
  ...
  "socket.io": {
    "origins": "http://domain.tld:* http://www.domain.tld:*"
  }
  ...
}

I did this, but no success.

the site is still available if you go to http://1.keen.wtf

but does it something has to do with this problem?
https://community.nodebb.org/topic/10748

here is dev log
https://community.nodebb.org/post/60646

PitaJ

in your case, put http://1.keen.wtf http://keen.wtf

MJ

@PitaJ no I mean I want everything is dissabled and only http://keen.wtf is good. and other things are linked to http://keen.. like if a user goes to 1.keen.wtf it goes to http://keen.wtf or is this not possible?

PitaJ

@MJ yeah that has to done in nginx

server {
  server_name 1.keen.wtf;
  return 301 $scheme://example.com$request_uri;
}