Ok thank you @gotwf

Also looks like I spoke too soon - regarding your original question 1, if I bypass nginx and connect directly using the server external ip to port 4567, I can see nodebb launch "correctly". But if I access it through the domain name, it gives me the above result. So that did matter.

Here is the nginx server block (file name - forum.kado.ai.conf)-

Here is the nodebb config file.

Thanks again!

Hi @gotwf - thanks so much for the quick response. Though none of the above directly helped, I was able to get it working.

I think the issue lay in 1 of 2 things I was doing - a) I had the ubuntu firewall ufw running, and/or b) I was installing everything as root.

I re-did the install as a non-root user which is a no-brainer. But as for the firewall, this is an instance on Google cloud so there is that added protection. But I would also like to have that second layer of protection in the instance as well. In order to set that up, what additional config would I need to allow/deny? Thoughts?

Hi! Any help would be greatly appreciated !

Versions

• nodebb - 1.13.4-0
• mongoDB - 4.0.18
• nodejs - 12.16.3
• ubuntu - 16.04 LTS
• nginx - 1.14.0

1. I followed instructions as laid out in the docs.

2. Upon installing, this is what I see on the page when I launch the forum.
   

   

3. At the bottom, there is a message saying the connection to NodeBB is lost. Here is the server log

   

4. All links are broken. I get a 404. Here is the server block (its the default one in the docs)
   

Thanks!