How to change 'localhost:4567' to actual domain name!!

a_5mith

Change localhost:4567 to yourdomain.com:4567. Then in nginx set a reverse proxy from yourdomain.com to your servers ip:4567

Will post my configuration in about 10 minutes for you.

a_5mith

Bit late, apologies,

server {
    listen 80;

        server_name 35hz.co.uk;

    location / {

        allow all;
        proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr;
        proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
        proxy_set_header Host $http_host;
        proxy_set_header X-NginX-Proxy true;

        proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:4567/;
        proxy_redirect off;

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

    }
}

{
    "secret": "Probably best not to show your secret",
    "database": "redis",
    "redis": {
        "host": "127.0.0.1",
        "port": "6379",
        "password": "Or your Database Password",
        "database": "0"
    },
    "url": "http://35hz.co.uk"
}

Just change 35hz.co.uk for your domain. And make sure your DNS points to your servers IP address via an A name record. Or you'll be doing the above for no reason.

Also set a password in your redis.conf file with /etc/redis/. Make it long and difficult too. Just in case. Mines 52 characters. Pretty sure @Ted has his at about 499 characters.

gvimlan

Can I know whats the use of DNS then?
I thought DNS is used to convert our domainname -> server ip?
Why are we using reverse proxy?

Kinda blur haha.

Reik

@gvimlan said:

Why are we using reverse proxy?

Because a NodeBB server use 4567 as default and it is bound to all of the interfaces in a host computer. You may connect to server by http://ip:4567 probably. Nginx is needed to redirect connection to your server from port yourdomain.com:80 to localhost:4567.

julian

@gvimlan The DNS resolves your domain name (e.g. example.org) with your server IP address (e.g. 127.0.0.1). The reverse proxy listens for that request (e.g. I am @gvimlan's computer, I'd like to access example.org at 127.0.0.1 please), and transparently forwards (or proxies) that request to NodeBB (e.g. Okay, example.org is actually listening on port 4567, so I'll talk to 127.0.0.1:4567 on your behalf)

Hopefully that made it clearer!

gvimlan

@julian
That cleared my doubt. Thank you

gvimlan

Hi
Can I know which file to edit to configure the river proxy to listen to my server ip without the port number?
Thank you
I tried to google around and messed up a file called "/etc/nginx/sites-enabled/default".

julian

You'll probably want to create a new file so that everything is organized. I have one file per site, that makes it easy to separate different configurations all on the same server.

$ cd /etc/nginx/sites-available
$ nano nodebb    # paste the nginx config here
$ cd ../sites-enabled && ln -s ../sites-available/nodebb

The third command creates a symbolic link to the actual configuration (in sites-available/) from the folder that nginx actually checks (sites-enables/). This sort of setup comes in handy if you ever want to temporarily disable a site, just simply remove the symbolic link!

gvimlan

@julian
Thank you for helping me, mate

gvimlan

@a_5mith
Hey mate
Is the URL necessary in the config.json if I m using mongodb?

Sylwester Cyba

Yes, you'll need it in your config file. Just replace redis with mongo phrase or use setup to generate config.json.