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:

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.
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";
   }
}

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"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;
}