@jimmerz213 said:
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So I just built a quick VM locally and followed the guides I mentioned above. Did nothing differently except I didn't install php and apache before and start ripping things out. It works flawlessly. I can only imagine at this point its something with my server and I think I may just wipe it and start clean, using nginx only instead of apache.

Thanks for looking at this stuff guys - I appreciate it.

Edit - welp, it works great now. Probably has this whole time. The URL I was using to hit the forums was set to be x.x.132.x, it had to be x.x.135.x. Hey, at least I learned a TON about nodebb and nginx I'll take it.

Sure - here are the contents of those:

config.json
{
"base_url": "http://forum.myurl.com",
"port": "4567",
"secret": "*****",
"bind_address": "0.0.0.0",
"database": "redis",
"redis": {
"host": "127.0.0.1",
"port": "6379",
"password": "redisPW",
"database": "0"
},
"bcrypt_rounds": 12,
"upload_path": "/public/uploads",
"use_port": false,
"relative_path": ""
}

nginx config
server {
listen 10.100.10.20:80;

server_name forum.myurl.com;

location / {
    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";
}

}

The log files are there but they are empty. I can't even bring it up on the port number with nginx on/off. When it did work before, I had an apache vhost configured for it on port 80 but even that wasn't working anymore. I have tried removing and re-downloading nodebb a few times, tried a slew of different configurations. Maybe I need to change my redis db? I have always been using 0. It was working at one point (on the port) and some people set some stuff up, I wonder if that's interfering?

As far as what its doing now, it doesn't even connect - it just times out.

Hi everyone...I am really new to nodebb and nginx in general. I have a general high level understanding of CentOS and apache so I figured it wouldn't be too hard to figure these things out. At one point, I had the forums working (when you put port 4567 on the end of the URL) but then I started making more changes and now I can't get anything to come up. I've followed a slew of guides to configure nginx and nodebb to allow my forums to show up by using just the URL and they don't seem to do anything...any thoughts you guys have would be very much appreciated.

For your info - CentOS 6.6 (Final), NodeBB v0.5.3-dev (it starts up fine in the logs too), PHP 5.4.34, nginx/1.6.2

Guide I followed - https://blog.tommyparnell.com/installing-nodebb-on-centos-6-5/

I have nginx working great for another domain (just to confirm it wasn't my IP bindings, etc) but that one is just static content.

Is there an error log I could reference within nodebb that I am just missing to see why its not coming up in a browser at all? The output.log seems to never move once it says Ready! at the end.

Thanks in advance!