Can't open Nodebb with URL from config.json
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@Evg-R said in Can't open Nodebb with URL from config.json:
@PitaJ Yes I haven't set up port forwarding for router. Could you specify which ports and ip to specify for forwarding ports?
It's the port you specified... 4567, and your IP address. The one that you just used to access it.
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@scottalanmiller I have added forwarding port 4567 to router for ubuntu vm 192.168.1.4 TCP+UDP 4567 but I have still the same issues...
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@Evg-R said in Can't open Nodebb with URL from config.json:
@scottalanmiller I have added forwarding port 4567 to router for ubuntu vm 192.168.1.4 TCP+UDP 4567 but I have still the same issues...
That's not necessary. You were already testing from your LAN. Let's stay focused on testing one thing at a time. We don't want to jump around and get confused. (And now that we know your IP we can be explicit as to what we mean.)
If you add a hosts entry for your 192.168.1.4 to your forum.example.com and you browse to http://forum.example.com:4567/ does the issue clear up?
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@scottalanmiller Yes, now after adding to hosts and opening http://forum.example.com:4567/ I do not have message about lost connection any more
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@Evg-R said in Can't open Nodebb with URL from config.json:
@scottalanmiller Yes, now after adding to hosts and opening http://forum.example.com:4567/ I do not have message about lost connection any more
Awesome, okay I know that that was a pain, but it clears some things up.
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Now we are going to try the same exercise, but with port 80 instead.
The issue returns?
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@scottalanmiller if I open http://forum.example.com/ It's also clean now but with leaving previous hosts record unchanged
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@Evg-R said in Can't open Nodebb with URL from config.json:
@scottalanmiller if I open http://forum.example.com/ It's also clean now but with leaving previous hosts record unchanged
Yes, that was my intention.
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Okay, that it is now clean we know that both NodeBB and Nginx should be working fine. Now we can remove the hosts file entry.
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I hate these 30 second holds on a second response, I write the response then go do something else and forget to submit because I'm always having to wait. I mean to respond quickly, but it doesn't let me get right back to you, hence the delays even though I'm sitting right here.
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@scottalanmiller If I remove record from hosts I still can not access nodebb with http://forum.example.com/ url. If its not nodebb's, nginx's, mongo's problem then what's the problem here?
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What do you get when you access it? Is it the lost connection error, or so you not have access at all?
What ports have you forwarded?
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@Evg-R said in Can't open Nodebb with URL from config.json:
@scottalanmiller If I remove record from hosts I still can not access nodebb with http://forum.example.com/ url. If its not nodebb's, nginx's, mongo's problem then what's the problem here?
I'm guessing you are attempting a loopback. Try accessing it from outside of your network (is there a reason you are keeping your URL secret so that we can't help test it, too?) I'm guessing you are accessing only from the inside so the proxy isn't behaving correctly.
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@Evg-R said in Can't open Nodebb with URL from config.json:
@scottalanmiller If I remove record from hosts I still can not access nodebb with http://forum.example.com/ url. If its not nodebb's, nginx's, mongo's problem then what's the problem here?
Are you saying that you get NOTHING? Have you checked your DNS records, they have to point to your IP address. Given that you weren't port forwarding before, that makes me think you didn't set anything up yet. So when you go to the URL, it has nowhere to go.
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@scottalanmiller I want to open just exactly with http://forum.example.com/ url locally on the server browser. I am not talking about setting up my real domain yet. I suppose I can setup any domain locally or even just http://test to open nodebb as home page but I am wondered why it does not work now
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@Evg-R said in Can't open Nodebb with URL from config.json:
@scottalanmiller I want to open just exactly with http://forum.example.com/ url locally on the server browser. I am not talking about setting up my real domain yet. I suppose I can setup any domain locally or even just http://test to open nodebb as home page but I am wondered why it does not work now
In that case, everything is working, yes? You have to have either the hosts file entry or an identical DNS entry. And that you've tested, and it works. So at this point, it's all fixed, right?
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@Evg-R said in Can't open Nodebb with URL from config.json:
but I am wondered why it does not work now
Because you turned it off by removing the necessary hosts entry.
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I remember Apache server allows to browse locally on any url you named instalation folder and without hosts editing, But nginx not allowing this?
Just after installation I can not access http://forum.example.com with no hosts or dns setting for domain
And docs says I should access http://forum.example.com just after installation
No hosts or dns setup are mentioned!
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@Evg-R said in Can't open Nodebb with URL from config.json:
I remember Apache server allows to browse locally on any url you named instalation folder and without hosts editing, But nginx not allowing this?
THis has nothing to do with that. Apache would behave exactly the same here. Without the hosts entry, the URL doesn't point to Nginx at all.
This is networking, Apache has no power to overcome a non-working network. That's physically impossible.
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@Evg-R said in Can't open Nodebb with URL from config.json:
And docs says I should access http://forum.example.com just after installation
No hosts or dns setup are mentioned!Because this is so basic it is assume. It is assumed that you would have bought a domain, set it up, made the entry. This isn't a level of thing that would be explained in a software installation document.
All documents, ever written, that mention a URL mean "a working URL that points to the correct IP record for the machine in question." The documents don't mention installing your OS or making your networking work either, but obviously that also is required. DNS/Hostname is just the same, part of the basic networking.
