Deploy NodeBB in a subfolder of a site

[Henry Jia]

Can anyone give a full document about how to deploy NodeBB in a subfolder of a site?

I googled and tried without success as expected . (The NodeBB can start and access as http://***.domain.com:4567/forum (expected))

Some of my questions:

1. How to config to make NodeBB works together with the site, since NodeBB start will listen to a port and the host site need that port too.
2. Is it possible the start NodeBB only (http://***.domain.com:4567/forum) and provides access to some items such as static pages ( ex: http://***.domain.com:4567/test.html)

I'm trying to use NodeBB in Cloud 9, any suggestion / direction about deploy NodeBB is welcome.

Thanks in advance.

[Peter-Zoltan Keresztes]

Nodebb config should look like this:

{
    "url": "http://domain.com/forum",
    "secret": "somehash",
    "database": "redis",
    "redis": {
        "host": "127.0.0.1",
        "port": "6379",
        "password": "somepass",
        "database": "0"
    }
}

Your nginx config (in case you use nginx) should look something like this:

server {
    listen       80;
    server_name  domain.com;

    #charset koi8-r;
    access_log  /var/log/nginx/access.log  main;
    error_log  /var/log/nginx/error_log;

    location / {
	some code for /;
    }

    location ^~ /forum {
	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";
   }
}

[A Former User]

"location ^~ /forum {"

[Henry Jia]

Thanks, I will try with nginx (new for me same as NodeBB).

Could you please tell me if there has some limitation such as where to deploy the NodeBB.

Thanks again.

[Peter-Zoltan Keresztes]

@Henry-Jia said:

Could you please tell me if there has some limitation such as where to deploy the NodeBB.

It does not have any known limitation.

[julian]

Deploying in subfolder or (sub)domain should be identical -- if differences are identified, report them as bugs, please

[teotikalki]

@ A Former User
I just wanted to note that the regex isn't necessary. I just installed and my working config is as follows:

  location /forum/ {
      proxy_pass http://172.17.2.3:4567;
      proxy_redirect off;
      proxy_set_header Host $http_host;
       proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-Host $host;
       proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-Server $host;
      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 X-NginX-Proxy true;

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