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SimonA

Hi All

I followed the installation instructions on Ubuntu and have the web site up and running. The instructions were pretty good, although a few small things would have helped a linux newbie like me.

I also had a weird error of "Bad Gateway" that seems to have gone away with a restart. However I am stuck now in that I cannot login with the app admin account I created during setup. A message comes up bottom right saying "Welcome back guest", then it goes to a page:

Not Found
You seem to have stumbled upon a page that does not exist

I'm sure that I'm using the correct account as per the instructions, and I also tried using the email address instead of name. I even tried using the OS account I used to install / run NodeBB.

Any idea what the problem is?? The forums have helped with various things, but I can't find anything on this...

<baris>

You should set the value of url in config.json to the url you are accessing the forum, you might also want to setup SSL for that url.

SimonA

Even stranger - it logged on fine on my phone with that account. I saved my login credentials on the phone, and still get the same error on both my browsers on the laptop!

On the laptop it's redirecting to http://cosmonous.com/undefined

<baris>

You should set the value of url in config.json to the url you are accessing the forum, you might also want to setup SSL for that url.

SimonA

@baris said in Login first time:

You should set the value of url in config.json to the url you are accessing the forum, you might also want to setup SSL for that url.

Thanks Baris. Okay I assumed that was some kind of local loopback in the config.json because of the proxy, but have now updated it and restarted the instance. No change however - in fact you can’t even register as a new users on the laptop, or login as a new user I created on the phone. Strange.

This is just a test / demo instance so I was trying to avoid paying for a cert, but I will use a free local one for now. Could that be causing the problem?

<baris>

You can get free certs with letsencrypt, take a look at the network tab and console of your browser, you probably error messages there when you try to register/login.

SimonA

Mmm ... after loading cert I can't get nginx to load

```

systemctl status nginx.service
× nginx.service - A high performance web server and a reverse proxy server
Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/nginx.service; enabled; preset: enabled)
Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Tue 2024-11-12 23:08:22 UTC; 22s ago
Docs: man:nginx(8)
Process: 1270 ExecStartPre=/usr/sbin/nginx -t -q -g daemon on; master_process on; (code=exited, status=1/FA>
CPU: 3ms

Nov 12 23:08:22 ip-172-31-24-78 systemd[1]: Starting nginx.service - A high performance web server and a revers>
Nov 12 23:08:22 ip-172-31-24-78 nginx[1270]: 2024/11/12 23:08:22 [emerg] 1270#1270: invalid parameter "spdy" in>
Nov 12 23:08:22 ip-172-31-24-78 nginx[1270]: nginx: configuration file /etc/nginx/nginx.conf test failed
Nov 12 23:08:22 ip-172-31-24-78 systemd[1]: nginx.service: Control process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE
Nov 12 23:08:22 ip-172-31-24-78 systemd[1]: nginx.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
Nov 12 23:08:22 ip-172-31-24-78 systemd[1]: Failed to start nginx.service - A high performance web server and a>
lines 1-13/13 (END)
× nginx.service - A high performance web server and a reverse proxy server
Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/nginx.service; enabled; preset: enabled)
Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Tue 2024-11-12 23:08:22 UTC; 22s ago
Docs: man:nginx(8)
Process: 1270 ExecStartPre=/usr/sbin/nginx -t -q -g daemon on; master_process on; (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)
CPU: 3ms

Nov 12 23:08:22 ip-172-31-24-78 systemd[1]: Starting nginx.service - A high performance web server and a reverse proxy server...
Nov 12 23:08:22 ip-172-31-24-78 nginx[1270]: 2024/11/12 23:08:22 [emerg] 1270#1270: invalid parameter "spdy" in /etc/nginx/sites-enable>
Nov 12 23:08:22 ip-172-31-24-78 nginx[1270]: nginx: configuration file /etc/nginx/nginx.conf test failed
Nov 12 23:08:22 ip-172-31-24-78 systemd[1]: nginx.service: Control process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE
Nov 12 23:08:22 ip-172-31-24-78 systemd[1]: nginx.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
Nov 12 23:08:22 ip-172-31-24-78 systemd[1]: Failed to start nginx.service - A high performance web server and a reverse proxy server.


This is my config - any obvious issues?

redirects http requests to https

server {
listen 80;
server_name cosmonous.com;

return 302 https://$server_name$request_uri;

}

the https server

server {
# listen on ssl, deliver with speedy if possible
listen 443 ssl spdy;

server_name cosmonous.com;

# change these paths!
ssl_certificate /etc/letsencrypt/live/cosmonous.com/fullchain.pem;
ssl_certificate_key /etc/letsencrypt/live/cosmonous.com/privkey.pem;

# enables all versions of TLS, but not SSLv2 or 3 which are weak and now deprecated.
ssl_protocols TLSv1 TLSv1.1 TLSv1.2;

# disables all weak ciphers
ssl_ciphers 'AES128+EECDH:AES128+EDH';

ssl_prefer_server_ciphers on;

location / {
    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;

    proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:4567;  # no trailing slash
    proxy_redirect off;

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

}

SimonA

Interestingly I asked ChatGPT to check the nginx config and it gave me a new one that seems to have solved both problems. No idea what was wrong, but thank you very much for your help!