So;
After this really helpful information above (I would never have thought to check NGINX) I found this https://docs.nodebb.org/configuring/proxies/nginx/ which I followed to set up with the SSL
I then followed a digitalocean link which showed me how to install the certificate
and it seems to have worked

Thank you all so much for your help!

https://pastebin.com/Ck6aJccL

I think that's what you mean by Nginx config & I wouldn't be surprised if I've done something wrong with this

@gotwf Okay
So:
This is my config file: https://pastebin.com/j7tg3uGY
This is my log when it's started: https://pastebin.com/ac3vYPrU

I did what you said, and I entirely reinstalled everything (Ubuntu 18.04) again. I followed the tutorial word for word.
Without logging into the website, it can be accessed and used as normal. There're no issues (inc. no connection problems)
When choosing to login to the site, the issues begin. It logs in (this doesn't show up in the log for some reason), comes up with 'session mismatch' and kicks you back to the homepage.
Am I just doing something really stupid and being dim?

@PitaJ Yes, it does match it. Does it affect it that it has an SSL certificate (through Cloudflare)

@gotwf https://pastebin.com/SNvXC8um

The same problems I've been having the whole time.
When logging in, reloading the page and displaying the message session mismatch & then 'looks like your connection was lost', not being bale to register etc

@scottalanmiller said in Connection and Session issues (new install):

@ben-coyle2 said in Connection and Session issues (new install):

It won't start at all now I'm getting csv errors. Any help?

NodeBB will not start? Can you show the errors?

This has now resolved itself following above advice but the other issues still remain after trying previous comments

@PitaJ said in Connection and Session issues (new install):

@ben-coyle2 please try

./nodebb stop
git checkout v1.13.3
./nodebb upgrade -mi
./nodebb start

Same thing is still happening after doing this

It won't start at all now I'm getting csv errors. Any help?

@PitaJ said in Connection and Session issues (new install):

Can you try checking out tag v1.13.3 instead?

git checkout v1.13.3

Okay I'm not entirely sure how this works? It says that when this was loaded it's in a detached HEAD state? Should I try access my website with this running?

@baris said in Connection and Session issues (new install):

Make sure the url in your config.json matches the url you are accessingn the site as well.

This is done

@PitaJ said in Connection and Session issues (new install):

What version of node? What version of nodebb? Are there any errors in the nodebb log? How are you running NodeBB? What database are you using?

Node: v12.18.1
NodeBB: v.1.13.4-5
The only errors are that plugins may be incompatible
I'm running NodeBB through a VPS using Ubuntu 18.04
DB is MongoDB 4.0.19

@gotwf Hi, yeah I followed this when installing it -
Sorry for not providing more I wasn't sure what to include

Hi there,

I'm new to NodeBB and installed it only yesterday for my community to use.
However, I'm having issues.

• Users cannot register (just reloads the page),
• Logging in (inc. admin account, so i'm locked out) does not work; although the user can log in, it reloads the page with:
  Session Mismatch
  It looks like your login session is no longer active, or no longer matches with the server. Please refresh this page
  Once it has done this, it tends to reload with the message a the bottom "Looks like your connection to name was lost, please wait while we try to reconnect. This did not happen when I wasn't logged in / when I was logged in with an account yesterday (before logging out).

If anyone would be able to help (as simply as possible) that would be amazing! Thank you all in advance

I'm running software: Ubuntu 18.04
If you need any more information from me please let me know