Hi @yariplus ,

the forum runs on a subdomain, because there is a Wordpress-Site on the "normal" domain, which is by a different hoster, who is the DNS-Host (http://checkdomain.de), too. The nodeBB installation is hosted by http://uberspace.de and the SSL certificate is providec by letsencrypt. As a proxy I have to use Apache 2.2. This is the reason for the private Port, because Apache 2.2 can not handle websockets. Everything worked fine till i tried to switch to https. Here is the .htaccess of the Apache:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://localhost:63542/$1 [NC,P,L]

When I to switch zu https, there is a http an a https (socket.io) to the same Port. That is the reason why i want to use a separate port for socket.io, if this is possible.

Hope there is enough information now, if not, please tell me what you need.

thanks for your help!
best,
chris

@PitaJ I have exactly the same Problem. Custom Javascript is gone after updating to 1.7.3. Custom JS und header tab are empty. Is there a possibility to recover that code?

Hi nodeBB-Community,

I want to provide my forum via https. In my hosting environment I have to use a direct connetion to a private opened port (e.g. 63542) for socket io to establish stable websocket-connection. I did this in the nodebb config.json in this way:

"socket.io": {
    "address": "subdomain.tld.com:63542"
}

Everything works fine and fast with http. When I switch to https I get for all requests to /socket.io/ net::ERR_CONNECTION_CLOSED
I still can use the forum and do a login but I always have the notification visible that the connection was lost and the forum is trying to re-establish the connection.

Has anybody a idea what I can do for a consistent SSL-Connection?

Thanks,
Chris

Great Idea! I took your solution and added a few lines of CSS to hide the downvote arrow and remove the whitespace.

// Change the icon for votes
span.votes {
    // not voted is outline heart
    .fa-chevron-up:before {
        content: "\f08a";        
    }
    // upvoted is solid heart
    .upvoted .fa-chevron-up:before {
        content: "\f004";
    }
}
// hide the downvote element to remove whitespace
a[component="post/downvote"] {
    display: none;
}
// reduce margin of post-submenue for alignment 
.topic .moderator-tools {
    margin-left: 0px;
}