First of all, hi NodeBB community.
I have some issues with proxying via Nginx.
My config regarding the NodeBB installation looks like this (server_name and root values are obviously not real):
upstream nodebb {
server 127.0.0.1:8997;
}
server {
listen 80;
server_name subdomain.domain.com;
root /path/to/nodebb;
location / {
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://nodebb/;
proxy_redirect off;
proxy_http_version 1.1;
proxy_set_header Upgrade $http_upgrade;
proxy_set_header Connection "upgrade";
}
}
When I try to open "subdomain.domain.com" in my browser everything seems fine, but the settings menu in the admin panel is actually borked beyond reasoning.
When I try clicking on the tabs (Privilege Thresholds, Email, User, Post, Web Crawler) I get this message in the console:
*Uncaught NotFoundError: An attempt was made to reference a Node in a context where it does not exist. *
When I run the application using IP and port, it works flawlessly, so this has something to do with the proxy and possibly the sockets. My config.json and public/config.json are untouched, although I tried to set config.socket.address and config.socket.port before but it didn't do any good.
If anyone has ideas, I'm all ears.
Edit: Looks like the socket connection times out. Maybe it does have something to do with public/config.json.
Edit 2: No it doesn't.
Edit 3: Looks like the root cause is the version of my Nginx installation. Nginx supports websocket proxying from 1.3. I'll upgrade my Nginx and we'll see how it goes.
Solution:
Debian Wheezy repos only contain Nginx 1.2.1 as the current stable version (which is outdated only by mere 2 minor versions) and that version can't handle websocket proxying.
If you happen to have Wheezy and/or Nginx <1.3, upgrade to the latest (1.4.4 as I write this post) version using backports.
