@PitaJ I'm calling it on the client side, I'm using axios.get() to call the forum api. I have set the Access-Control-Allow-Origin to https://myapp.com - other api calls (ie. posts, tags) work just fine. Only when I call /api/me is when I get 401 Unauthorized. I tried calling /api/login but I get back an object that has loggedIn:false even tho a user is logged in the forums.

@PitaJ I think I have a similar problem with navix. I'm running nodebb forums in a server with this domain forum.myapp.com, and I have my main site in a cdn (as it's just React app) in a different domain myapp.com.

All login is handled on the forum site. In my main app, I need to know whether a current user is logged into the forum. I'm calling the forum api: forum.myapp.com/api/me from the main app and I'm getting "401 Unauthorized".

But going to forum.myapp.com/api/me directly from the browser returns the logged in user data.

I'm assuming it doesn't work because of a cookie not being set in the main app - as they are in a different domain. So are there any other way I can get the logged in user from the forum api?

Thank you!

After running ./nodebb setup, my config.json changed. It removes configuration of redis and socket.io.

From this:

{
    "url": "http://forum.test.com",
    "secret": "5eeff60a-123-4d0f-1234-01685fd23123",
    "database": "mongo",
    "port": ["4567", "4568"],
    "mongo": {
         ...
    },
    "socket.io": {
         ...
    },
    "redis": {
         ...
    }
}

to

{
    "url": "http://forum.test.com",
    "secret": "5eeff60a-123-4d0f-1234-01685fd2123",
    "database": "mongo",
    "port": [
        "4567",
        "4568"
    ],
    "mongo": {
         ...
    }
}

Is this intended behaviour?