I tried running nodebb on apache but given I was running under a centos/whm server, it became a nightmare. Now i have nodebb running on Digitalocean but I still get this error like

https://coinassist.org/socket.io/?EIO=3&transport=polling&t=MBL7iKu

Is that normal?

On this forum, if the admins don’t mind answering, what is the server setup like? It’s been mentioned digitalocean is serving the backend hosting needs, what distribution of Linux, memory ... does it take it from looking at DO side, to host such busy a forum?

I know other forums using nodebb might have large server setup but as far as DO, what would it roughly cost to host a forum used like the one here?

@julian thank you.

how does one change and update google site description that shows up on google search?

I fixed the issue with apache but I have another with another web socket error.

WebSocket connection to 'ws://coinassist.org/socket.io/?EIO=3&transport=websocket&sid=DyMXotjUG3Ls85LEAAAL' failed: Unexpected response code: 400

any ideas why error?

coinassist.org

@pitaj thank you

I don't know how to do that. is that something with htaccess I do? or within nodebb admin? or config file?

yes sir! okay I got it to work on regular http for now

my updated apache

***ServerName www.coinassist.org
RequestHeader set X-Forwarded-Proto "http"

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

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI}  ^/socket.io            [NC]
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} transport=websocket    [NC]
RewriteRule /(.*)           ws://127.0.0.1:4567/$1 [P,L]

ProxyPass / http://127.0.0.1:4567/
ProxyPassReverse / http://127.0.0.1:4567/***

the web socket issue is was when you hit "http://coinassist.org/" everything is good however when you do "http://www.coinassist.org/" you get web socket error like my first screenshot. try it, you'll see

here is my current config.json file.
{
"url": "https://coinassist.org",
"secret": "secret",
"database": "mongo",
"mongo": {
"host": "127.0.0.1",
"port": "27017",
"username": "nodebb",
"password": "password",
"database": "nodebb",
"uri": ""
},
"type": "literal"
}

my apache setting

ProxyPass / http://127.0.0.1:4567/
ProxyPassReverse / http://127.0.0.1:4567/

nodebb is running but I can't get it to run on https or even apache to work now. currently its running on the port.

I'm running on a cpanel/whm and yes something happened again where I have problem again

sorry I was trying something out, please access it now. you will see the web socket error. please advise!

Someone help

My config file is as this
{
"url": "https://coinassist.org",
"secret": "secret",
"database": "mongo",
"mongo": {
"host": "127.0.0.1",
"port": "27017",
"username": "nodebb",
"password": "mypassword",
"database": "nodebb",
"uri": ""
},
"type": "literal"
}

Install Nginx

$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install nginx
That’s it, Nginx is now installed and you can do the usual start, stop and restart with the following command:

$ service nginx start
$ service nginx stop
$ service nginx stop
Configure Nginx

Nginx is going to act like a reverse proxy for your domain. When a user types in your-domain, they are going to serves the pages from your-ip:4567. To do this, you will need to navigate to your configuration file.

$ cd /etc/nginx/sites-available/
Personally, I remove the configuration and create a new one.

$ rm default
$ nano default
Inside the configuration file I use the following:

server {
listen 80;

server_name domain.com;

location / {
root /var/www/nodebb;
    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";
}

}
You will need to change domain.com to your own domain name and the root path to wherever you installed NodeBB.

I know others have had this issue with the message:

• "Looks like your connection to NodeBB was lost, please wait while we try to reconnect."*

However my setup is apache and not nginx, here is a screenshot of what the web socket error looks like

the installation is on coinassist.org
my only apache setting is:

ProxyPass / http://127.0.0.1:4567/
ProxyPassReverse / http://127.0.0.1:4567/