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  • omegaO

    Hmmm... has it been hacked?

    Any strange user regs before it went down?

    Maybe you can review the last few users who roistered. If it is open. Just a thought. I've had NodeBB go down like that. No time to check it out. Nothing works like it should. Wasn't an important install.

    How it woudl happen is, admin woudl approve a user. Since this would be an no users, this user is the first. Within about 2/3 mins of approving use.. BANG!

    NodeBb goes down. Nothing is working like it should, in a similar way as to you are describing.

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  • PitaJP

    @nicolas

    Can you try sending a request directly to NodeBB with curl on your server? (localhost:8081)

    Where was that error reported? Nginx logs?

    Posting the last few lines of your startup log isn't really helpful, can you paste the whole thing? Post a startup log from ./nodebb dev while you're at it for comparison.

    Can you try attaching NodeBB to a different port?

    Have you tried deleting node_modules and then npm install? On your version you might need to reinstall your plugins again.

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  • NicolasN

    @pitaj curl result is similar to Nginx

    $ curl localhost:8081
Cannot GET /

    Connection refused error that I have posted before, from Nginx Error logs.

    Considering the situation, currently, I'm not messing with dependencies or configs that would work without any issues. I did not touch NPM Modules, did not try to remap port.

    By the way, curl localhost:8081 for NodeBB that I run in Dev mode ./nodebb dev returns HTML, i.e. forum functions

    What so special happens with the production start of the NodeBB that could stop working in such a fashion?

    @omega interesting theory, I will see if any suspicious users were created last couple of days. But I'm the only admin.

    @PitaJ thank you for brainstorming the potential issues. Here are full logs from NodeBB Start:

    NodeBB v1.0.2 Copyright (C) 2013-2014 NodeBB Inc.
This program comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions.
For the full license, please visit: http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html

Clustering enabled: Spinning up 1 process(es).

3/3 23:36 [15691] - info: Time: Wed Mar 03 2021 23:36:57 GMT+0000 (UTC)
3/3 23:36 [15691] - info: Initializing NodeBB v1.0.2
3/3 23:36 [15691] - info: [database] Checking database indices.
3/3 23:36 [15691] - warn: [socket.io] Clustering detected, you are advised to configure Redis as a websocket store.

3/3 23:36 [15691] - warn: [plugins/load] The following plugins may not be compatible with your version of NodeBB. This may cause unintended behaviour or crashing. In the event of an unresponsive NodeBB caused by this plugin, run `./nodebb reset -p PLUGINNAME` to disable it.
  * nodebb-plugin-ns-points
  * nodebb-plugin-emailer-mailgun

3/3 23:37 [15691] - info: NodeBB Ready
3/3 23:37 [15691] - info: Enabling 'trust proxy'
3/3 23:37 [15691] - info: NodeBB is now listening on: 0.0.0.0:8081

    P.S.
    Warning for Dev mode is the same, and it works...

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  • NicolasN

    @omega Unlikely it was hacked, it's low profile forum.

    83624787-0854-410c-84f1-da48d3a83828-image.png

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  • NicolasN 
    Cannot GET /

    Is it Express error output? Why would Express suddenly start to be unhappy about the environment?..

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  • NicolasN

    @baris any ideas what would be the most useful place in the main app to put the console.log to troubleshoot Express, why it does not blurp output?

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  • PitaJP

    @nicolas that is an express error, which is why I recommended reinstalling dependencies. I'm guessing this was just caused by a random file corruption that's only visible in production mode.

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  • NicolasN

    @pitaj is it possible? Does Express mutate its source files?

    Touching Node Modules with such an old Node version without lock file can become very deadly for the forum and current setup.

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  • barisB

    The files in node_modules could change if someone installs a plugin in the ACP. Does this affect all routes? Does loading something like forum.com/api/config work?

    What active plugins do you have?

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  • PitaJP

    @nicolas huh? Mutating source files? I'm talking about cosmic rays flipping bits here.

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  • NicolasN

    @baris /api/config - does not work.

    $ curl localhost:8081/api/config
Cannot GET /api/config

    Plugins. logs from Dev mode:

    4/3 00:42 [18479] - info: [themes] Using theme nodebb-theme-overseers
4/3 00:42 [18479] - verbose: [plugins] Initializing plugins system
4/3 00:42 [18479] - verbose: [plugins] Found 5 js file(s) for plugin nodebb-theme-overseers
4/3 00:42 [18479] - verbose: [plugins] Loaded plugin: nodebb-theme-overseers
4/3 00:42 [18479] - verbose: [plugins] Found 1 css file(s) for plugin nodebb-widget-essentials
4/3 00:42 [18479] - verbose: [plugins] Loaded plugin: nodebb-widget-essentials
4/3 00:42 [18479] - verbose: [plugins] Loaded plugin: nodebb-plugin-soundpack-default
4/3 00:42 [18479] - verbose: [plugins] Found 1 less file(s) for plugin nodebb-plugin-mentions
4/3 00:42 [18479] - verbose: [plugins] Found 1 js file(s) for plugin nodebb-plugin-mentions
4/3 00:42 [18479] - verbose: [plugins] Loaded plugin: nodebb-plugin-mentions
4/3 00:42 [18479] - verbose: [plugins] Found 1 less file(s) for plugin nodebb-plugin-markdown
4/3 00:42 [18479] - verbose: [plugins] Found 1 js file(s) for plugin nodebb-plugin-markdown
4/3 00:42 [18479] - verbose: [plugins] Found 1 js file(s) for plugin nodebb-plugin-markdown
4/3 00:42 [18479] - verbose: [plugins] Loaded plugin: nodebb-plugin-markdown
4/3 00:42 [18479] - verbose: [plugins] Loaded plugin: nodebb-plugin-emoji-apple
4/3 00:42 [18479] - verbose: [plugins] Found 1 less file(s) for plugin nodebb-plugin-emoji-extended
4/3 00:42 [18479] - verbose: [plugins] Found 1 js file(s) for plugin nodebb-plugin-emoji-extended
4/3 00:42 [18479] - verbose: [plugins] Loaded plugin: nodebb-plugin-emoji-extended
4/3 00:42 [18479] - verbose: [plugins] Found 1 less file(s) for plugin nodebb-plugin-composer-default
4/3 00:42 [18479] - verbose: [plugins] Found 11 js file(s) for plugin nodebb-plugin-composer-default
4/3 00:42 [18479] - verbose: [plugins] Found 1 js file(s) for plugin nodebb-plugin-composer-default
4/3 00:42 [18479] - verbose: [plugins] Loaded plugin: nodebb-plugin-composer-default
4/3 00:42 [18479] - verbose: [plugins] Loaded plugin: nodebb-plugin-ns-api
4/3 00:42 [18479] - verbose: [plugins] Found 1 less file(s) for plugin nodebb-plugin-ns-likes
4/3 00:42 [18479] - verbose: [plugins] Found 2 js file(s) for plugin nodebb-plugin-ns-likes
4/3 00:42 [18479] - verbose: [plugins] Loaded plugin: nodebb-plugin-ns-likes
4/3 00:42 [18479] - verbose: [plugins] Loaded plugin: nodebb-plugin-ns-login
4/3 00:42 [18479] - verbose: [plugins] Found 1 less file(s) for plugin nodebb-plugin-ns-points
4/3 00:42 [18479] - verbose: [plugins] Found 2 js file(s) for plugin nodebb-plugin-ns-points
4/3 00:42 [18479] - verbose: [plugins] Loaded plugin: nodebb-plugin-ns-points
4/3 00:42 [18479] - verbose: [plugins] Loaded plugin: nodebb-plugin-ns-slugify
4/3 00:42 [18479] - verbose: [plugins] Found 1 less file(s) for plugin nodebb-plugin-write-api
4/3 00:42 [18479] - verbose: [plugins] Found 1 js file(s) for plugin nodebb-plugin-write-api
4/3 00:42 [18479] - verbose: [plugins] Loaded plugin: nodebb-plugin-write-api
4/3 00:42 [18479] - verbose: [plugins] Found 1 less file(s) for plugin nodebb-plugin-ns-embed
4/3 00:42 [18479] - verbose: [plugins] Found 0 js file(s) for plugin nodebb-plugin-ns-embed
4/3 00:42 [18479] - verbose: [plugins] Found 1 js file(s) for plugin nodebb-plugin-ns-embed
4/3 00:42 [18479] - verbose: [plugins] Loaded plugin: nodebb-plugin-ns-embed
4/3 00:42 [18479] - verbose: [plugins] Loaded plugin: nodebb-plugin-dbsearch
4/3 00:42 [18479] - verbose: [plugins] Found 3 less file(s) for plugin nodebb-plugin-ns-custom-fields
4/3 00:42 [18479] - verbose: [plugins] Found 1 js file(s) for plugin nodebb-plugin-ns-custom-fields
4/3 00:42 [18479] - verbose: [plugins] Found 1 js file(s) for plugin nodebb-plugin-ns-custom-fields
4/3 00:42 [18479] - verbose: [plugins] Loaded plugin: nodebb-plugin-ns-custom-fields
4/3 00:42 [18479] - verbose: [plugins] Found 3 less file(s) for plugin nodebb-plugin-ns-awards
4/3 00:42 [18479] - verbose: [plugins] Found 0 js file(s) for plugin nodebb-plugin-ns-awards
4/3 00:42 [18479] - verbose: [plugins] Found 1 js file(s) for plugin nodebb-plugin-ns-awards
4/3 00:42 [18479] - verbose: [plugins] Loaded plugin: nodebb-plugin-ns-awards
4/3 00:42 [18479] - verbose: [plugins] Found 0 css file(s) for plugin nodebb-widget-ns-birthdays
4/3 00:42 [18479] - verbose: [plugins] Found 1 less file(s) for plugin nodebb-widget-ns-birthdays
4/3 00:42 [18479] - verbose: [plugins] Loaded plugin: nodebb-widget-ns-birthdays
4/3 00:42 [18479] - verbose: [plugins] Found 0 css file(s) for plugin nodebb-widget-ns-stats
4/3 00:42 [18479] - verbose: [plugins] Found 1 less file(s) for plugin nodebb-widget-ns-stats
4/3 00:42 [18479] - verbose: [plugins] Loaded plugin: nodebb-widget-ns-stats
4/3 00:42 [18479] - verbose: [plugins] Loaded plugin: nodebb-plugin-emailer-mailgun
4/3 00:42 [18479] - verbose: [plugins] Found 1 js file(s) for plugin nodebb-plugin-google-analytics
4/3 00:42 [18479] - verbose: [plugins] Loaded plugin: nodebb-plugin-google-analytics

4/3 00:42 [18479] - warn: [plugins/load] The following plugins may not be compatible with your version of NodeBB. This may cause unintended behaviour or crashing. In the event of an unresponsive NodeBB caused by this plugin, run `./nodebb reset -p PLUGINNAME` to disable it.
  * nodebb-plugin-ns-points
  * nodebb-plugin-emailer-mailgun

4/3 00:42 [18479] - info: [plugins] Plugins OK
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  • NicolasN

    /api/config in Dev Mode - works

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  • psychobunnyP

    @nicolas though I don't want to immediately suggest you upgrade from NodeBB v1.0.2 (that's a LONG time ago! haha... welcome back btw!)

    I wonder if you ran npm i etc and that upgraded you to packages that are no longer compatible with that version of core

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  • NicolasN

    I did not do npm install, I deactivated at this point 2 plugins that could depend on external services like Captcha and Twitch Monitor.

    Here is an example of Express, if I would install node modules likely express would update also:

    bc900064-be66-491f-880a-f558dec9841d-image.png

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  • NicolasN

    Any ideas why ./nodebb start does not work, and ./nodebb dev works?
    Anything I could do to rebuild something in a less harmful way to try ./nodebb start?
    Any suggestions why Express does not work in production mode?

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  • NicolasN

    So I'm debugging Express, in production, Route registration does not happen. For example, in debug mode I see logs like:

      express:router:route get /user/:userslug/edit/password +0ms
  express:router:layer new / +0ms
  express:router:route get /user/:userslug/edit/password +0ms
  express:router:layer new / +0ms
  express:router:route get /user/:userslug/edit/password +0ms
  express:router:layer new / +0ms
  express:router:route new /api/user/:userslug/edit/password +0ms
  express:router:layer new /api/user/:userslug/edit/password +0ms
  express:router:route get /api/user/:userslug/edit/password +0ms
  express:router:layer new / +0ms
  express:router:route get /api/user/:userslug/edit/password +0ms
  express:router:layer new / +0ms
  express:router:route get /api/user/:userslug/edit/password +0ms
  express:router:layer new / +0ms
  express:router:route get /api/user/:userslug/edit/password +0ms
  express:router:layer new / +0ms
  express:router:route get /api/user/:userslug/edit/password +0ms
  express:router:layer new / +0ms
  express:router:route new /user/:userslug/settings +0ms
  express:router:layer new /user/:userslug/settings +0ms
  express:router:route get /user/:userslug/settings +0ms
  express:router:layer new / +0ms
  express:router:route get /user/:userslug/settings +1ms
  express:router:layer new / +0ms
  express:router:route get /user/:userslug/settings +0ms
  express:router:layer new / +0ms
  express:router:route get /user/:userslug/settings +0ms
  express:router:layer new / +0ms
  express:router:route get /user/:userslug/settings +0ms
  express:router:layer new / +0ms
  express:router:route get /user/:userslug/settings +0ms
  express:router:layer new / +0ms
  express:router:route get /user/:userslug/settings +0ms
  express:router:layer new / +0ms
  express:router:route new /api/user/:userslug/settings +0ms
  express:router:layer new /api/user/:userslug/settings +0ms
  express:router:route get /api/user/:userslug/settings +0ms
  express:router:layer new / +0ms
  express:router:route get /api/user/:userslug/settings +0ms
  express:router:layer new / +0ms
  express:router:route get /api/user/:userslug/settings +0ms
  express:router:layer new / +0ms
  express:router:route get /api/user/:userslug/settings +0ms
  express:router:layer new / +0ms
  express:router:route get /api/user/:userslug/settings +0ms
  express:router:layer new / +0ms
  express:router:route new /user/:userslug/session/:uuid +0ms
  express:router:layer new /user/:userslug/session/:uuid +0ms
  express:router:route delete /user/:userslug/session/:uuid +0ms

    But in production mode I can see only initial Express operations:

    express:application set "x-powered-by" to true +0ms
  express:application set "etag" to 'weak' +1ms
  express:application set "etag fn" to [Function: wetag] +1ms
  express:application set "env" to 'development' +0ms
  express:application set "query parser" to 'extended' +0ms
  express:application set "query parser fn" to [Function: parseExtendedQueryString] +0ms
  express:application set "subdomain offset" to 2 +0ms
  express:application set "trust proxy" to false +0ms
  express:application set "trust proxy fn" to [Function: trustNone] +1ms
  express:application booting in development mode +0ms
  express:application set "view" to [Function: View] +0ms
  express:application set "views" to '/web/overseers/node/forum/views' +0ms
  express:application set "jsonp callback name" to 'callback' +0ms
  express:application set "view engine" to 'tpl' +85ms
  express:application set "views" to '/web/overseers/node/forum/public/templates' +1ms
  express:application set "json spaces" to 0 +0ms
  express:router use / query +0ms
  express:router:layer new / +1ms
  express:router use / expressInit +0ms
  express:router:layer new / +0ms
  express:router use / <anonymous> +0ms
  express:router:layer new / +0ms
  express:application set "view cache" to true +1ms
  express:router use / compression +0ms
  express:router:layer new / +0ms
  express:router use  favicon +0ms
  express:router:layer new  +0ms
  express:router use /apple-touch-icon <anonymous> +0ms
  express:router:layer new /apple-touch-icon +0ms
  express:router use / urlencodedParser +26ms
  express:router:layer new / +1ms
  express:router use / jsonParser +0ms
  express:router:layer new / +0ms
  express:router use / cookieParser +0ms
  express:router:layer new / +0ms
  express:router use / <anonymous> +1ms
  express:router:layer new / +0ms
  express:router use / session +0ms
  express:router:layer new / +0ms
  express:router use / <anonymous> +0ms
  express:router:layer new / +0ms
  express:router use / <anonymous> +1ms
  express:router:layer new / +0ms
  express:router use / initialize +0ms
  express:router:layer new / +0ms
  express:router use / authenticate +0ms
  express:router:layer new / +0ms
  express:router use / <anonymous> +0ms
  express:router:layer new / +0ms
  express:router use / <anonymous> +1ms
  express:router:layer new / +0ms
  express:application set "cache" to true +1ms
  express:application set "minification" to true +0ms

    That is why even the basic root route does not work since none of them are registered. Any hints where to look next?

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  • NicolasN

    @psychobunny @baris what am I risking by running forum as NODE_ENV=development ./nodebb start? 😇

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  • PitaJP

    My guess is corrupted files. You can try setting up a new nodebb instance with a copy of your database.

    Since it's affected by node_env it could be a nodebb file that was corrupted. Have you tried using git to detect a file diff?

    Running with an ancient version of NodeBB is probably more dangerous than running in development mode. Might make MITM a little more likely.

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  • barisB

    Can you post the output of git status as well?

    You can always add console.logs into src/routes.js and webserver js to debug.

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  • PitaJP

    You might also want to try git diff --name-status HEAD^ as git status uses file size and modification time.

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