Websocket/console error.

[midnightbeast]

I know others have had this issue with the message:

• "Looks like your connection to NodeBB was lost, please wait while we try to reconnect."*

However my setup is apache and not nginx, here is a screenshot of what the web socket error looks like

the installation is on coinassist.org
my only apache setting is:

ProxyPass / http://127.0.0.1:4567/
ProxyPassReverse / http://127.0.0.1:4567/

[PitaJ]

Is the URL value in config.json set to exactly the address at which you're accessing the site, including protocol and port?

[midnightbeast]

My config file is as this
{
"url": "https://coinassist.org",
"secret": "secret",
"database": "mongo",
"mongo": {
"host": "127.0.0.1",
"port": "27017",
"username": "nodebb",
"password": "mypassword",
"database": "nodebb",
"uri": ""
},
"type": "literal"
}

[midnightbeast]

Someone help

[PitaJ]

Seeing as when I access https://coinassist.org/ I get a directory listing, I'm going to assume that that's a "no" to my previous question.

You might want to try this documentation: https://docs.nodebb.org/configuring/proxies/apache/

[midnightbeast]

sorry I was trying something out, please access it now. you will see the web socket error. please advise!

[PitaJ]

@shokhruh1 if I go to https://coinassist.org, I still only see the directory listing. If I however go to http://coinassist.org:4567 I can see your NodeBB and I don't see any websocket errors.

[midnightbeast]

I'm running on a cpanel/whm and yes something happened again where I have problem again

[midnightbeast]

here is my current config.json file.
{
"url": "https://coinassist.org",
"secret": "secret",
"database": "mongo",
"mongo": {
"host": "127.0.0.1",
"port": "27017",
"username": "nodebb",
"password": "password",
"database": "nodebb",
"uri": ""
},
"type": "literal"
}

my apache setting

ProxyPass / http://127.0.0.1:4567/
ProxyPassReverse / http://127.0.0.1:4567/

nodebb is running but I can't get it to run on https or even apache to work now. currently its running on the port.

[PitaJ]

Did you look at the documentation I posted?

Apache (v2.4+) - NodeBB Documentation

Documentation portal for NodeBB Forum Software

(docs.nodebb.org)

[midnightbeast]

yes sir! okay I got it to work on regular http for now

my updated apache

***ServerName www.coinassist.org
RequestHeader set X-Forwarded-Proto "http"

ProxyRequests off
<Proxy *>
    Order deny,allow
    Allow from all
</Proxy>

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI}  ^/socket.io            [NC]
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} transport=websocket    [NC]
RewriteRule /(.*)           ws://127.0.0.1:4567/$1 [P,L]

ProxyPass / http://127.0.0.1:4567/
ProxyPassReverse / http://127.0.0.1:4567/***

the web socket issue is was when you hit "http://coinassist.org/" everything is good however when you do "http://www.coinassist.org/" you get web socket error like my first screenshot. try it, you'll see

[PitaJ]

Yep. The solution to that is to redirect www.coinassist.org to coinassist.org

[midnightbeast]

I don't know how to do that. is that something with htaccess I do? or within nodebb admin? or config file?

[PitaJ]

@shokhruh1 I don't know how to do it, but you'd do it within Apache somewhere. I suggest googling it.

[midnightbeast]

@pitaj thank you

[midnightbeast]

I fixed the issue with apache but I have another with another web socket error.

WebSocket connection to 'ws://coinassist.org/socket.io/?EIO=3&transport=websocket&sid=DyMXotjUG3Ls85LEAAAL' failed: Unexpected response code: 400

any ideas why error?

coinassist.org