Connection and Session issues (new install)

[julian]

You have https set up in your config.json, but are you actually using https to browse the site?

[scottalanmiller]

@gotwf said in Connection and Session issues (new install):

@ben-coyle2 No, I don't think you are being stupid or dim. Apparently there are gremlins afoot here. Post up your nginx config, eh?

This stuff is honestly really hard. I support these all the time and have for years and new installs that deviate from an established pattern in any way risk having these problems each time. We feel you.

[julian]

Additionally, as @gotwf says, paste your nginx config, I'm imagining that might be the cause, but we shall see...

[ben.coyle2]

I think that's what you mean by Nginx config & I wouldn't be surprised if I've done something wrong with this

[scottalanmiller]

That doesn't seem to be all of it?

It's only listening on 80, no HTTPS here?

[scottalanmiller]

Instead of posting with Pastebin, if you post directly here it'll show the entire code, not just part of it.

[scottalanmiller]

here is a current modern Nginx conf that I have that is working right now. Like you, this one doesn't handle HTTPS or 443. That's handled by another proxy in front of this one.

server {
        listen 80;
        client_max_body_size 80M;
        server_name your.site.name;
    
        location / {
                proxy_pass http://192.168.1.10:4567/;
                proxy_redirect off;
                proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr;
                proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
                proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-Proto $scheme;
                proxy_set_header Host $http_host;
                proxy_set_header X-NginX-Proxy true;

                # Socket.IO Support
                proxy_http_version 1.1;
                proxy_set_header Upgrade $http_upgrade;
                proxy_set_header Connection "upgrade";
        }
}

[scottalanmiller]

Looks awfully similar to me.

[ben.coyle2]

So;
After this really helpful information above (I would never have thought to check NGINX) I found this https://docs.nodebb.org/configuring/proxies/nginx/ which I followed to set up with the SSL
I then followed a digitalocean link which showed me how to install the certificate
and it seems to have worked

Thank you all so much for your help!

[gotwf]

@ben-coyle2 Cool, cool, cool!

You persisted, teased out the gremlins and finally got things working. Good job!

Now the real fun begins