Run two NodeBB forums in parallel on same server

[Dravere]

I tried to run two NodeBB forums in parallel. And apparently they interfere with each other regarding CSRF tokens and SID.

I setup two independ copies of NodeBB /opt/nodebb/tf1 (port 4567) and /opt/nodebb/tf2 (port 4568). Both are proxied through an Apache 2.4 server. The config file of the server looks like:

<VirtualHost *:80>
        ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost
        DocumentRoot /var/www/html

        ProxyRequests off

        <Proxy *>
                Order deny,allow
                Allow from all
        </Proxy>

        RewriteEngine On

        RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI}  ^/tf1/socket.io            [NC]
        RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} transport=websocket        [NC]
        RewriteRule /tf1/(.*)       ws://localhost:4567/tf1/$1 [P,L]

        ProxyPass /tf1/ http://localhost:4567/tf1/
        ProxyPassReverse /tf1/ http://localhost:4567/tf1/


        RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI}  ^/tf2/socket.io            [NC]
        RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} transport=websocket        [NC]
        RewriteRule /tf2/(.*)       ws://localhost:4568/tf2/$1 [P,L]

        ProxyPass /tf2/ http://localhost:4568/tf2/
        ProxyPassReverse /tf2/ http://localhost:4568/tf2/
</VirtualHost>

Looking at the cookies I have, it seems to me that the express.sid cookie might be the culprit. Its path is set to / instead to either /tf1/ or /tf2/.

[Dravere]

Definitely were the cookies. Digged in the code and found the problem in src/middleware/index.js. Created a pull request that fixes this problem:
https://github.com/NodeBB/NodeBB/pull/4663

[codecowboy]

@Dravere I tried this but it didn't seem to resolve the problem for me. I don't have the sites in sub-folders - I'm using different ports instead i.e 4567 and 4566

I added the code here:

https://github.com/NodeBB/NodeBB/pull/4663/commits/b530361851c45311e98b76759710216d595d22eb