Can anyone help here? I've not been able to figure anything out past this point.

We are attempting to move our MongoDB install to a different server. I set that up and used mongorestore to restore a mongodump from the previous server. After that I changed the config.json to point to the new host, and I tried to connect.

When running node app.js I get:

27/4 16:31 [8274] - info: NodeBB v1.4.0 Copyright (C) 2013-2017 NodeBB Inc.
27/4 16:31 [8274] - info: This program comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
27/4 16:31 [8274] - info: This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions.
27/4 16:31 [8274] - info:  
27/4 16:31 [8274] - info: Time: Thu Apr 27 2017 16:31:42 GMT-0400 (EDT)
27/4 16:31 [8274] - info: Initializing NodeBB v1.4.0
27/4 16:31 [8274] - error: NodeBB could not connect to your Mongo database. Mongo returned the following error: undefined
27/4 16:31 [8274] - error:  err=socketHandler, trace=, bin=undefined, sizeOfMessage=1347703880, bytesRead=undefined, stubBuffer=undefined

What am I missing here?

@julian I found this after re-reading the NodeBB NGINX configuration docs

nginx must be on version 1.4.x to properly support websockets. Debian/Ubuntu uses 1.2, although it will work there will be a reduction in functionality.

Previously, in the same doc:

NGINX version v1.3.13 or greater

I'm not sure if that is just a sign of an outdated doc, or if there is actually some type of incompatibility (which apparently doesn't surface everywhere). All I know is that by reverting to 1.4.x, all functionality was restored.

This is resolved. For anyone who comes across this later, the solution was to downgrade nginx to 1.4.x. This is due to issues with websockets in later versions.

I forgot to add something that could be important. I had upgraded nginx to 1.10.1. I believe it was 1.4.x before.

I received reports that our NodeBB forum was not working properly. When I checked, clicking the New Topic button does nothing. Clicking Login to enter the admin console opens a new tab saying "forbidden".
I checked the browser console and see two errors:

GET http://forum.server.com/nodebb.min.js?519f041b-2879-4a4d-9da5-5babe9232ee7 net::ERR_INCOMPLETE_CHUNKED_ENCODING

Uncaught ReferenceError: require is not defined at login:439

I'm not sure why nodebb.min.js is not loading. If I try to open that url in the browser, it does not work, but does work if I remove the query string.

I upgraded to latest NodeBB and it still doesn't work.

For more context, I had been doing some server maintenance last night and may have caused a problem. I changed nothing in the nginx config for NodeBB. I did reboot the server and had to manually start NodeBB.

Is it possible that there is a service that I also need to start manually? Help!

I guess that could work. I was hoping that NodeBB could somehow be set up as an oauth2 provider. Any guidance on if that is possible would be appreciated.

We originally thought that NodeBB was going to be all that we need, but discovered a need for a wiki or knowledge base. We would need that service to be restricted to users of our forum, but don't want to force users to create a second account.

I've been looking around and haven't had any luck. Is there anything that would allow NodeBB to act as an SSO provider for other services?