Hi,

I'm experiencing this issue with nodeBB where after a successful login, the URL has double http addresses in it, which gives the user an error. The user can then click on "categories" and be taken to categories no problem. But the initial landing page is problematic.

Suppose my domain name is forums.mydomain.com
After a successful login, I'm taken to this URL:
https://forums.mydomain.com/https://forums.mydomain.com

I'm running NodeBB version 1.11.2

What settings would I change to fix this?

Thanks,
Wayne

I did get this working.
I moved the nodebb working directory to /home/nodebb/nodebb and changed ownership of that to nodebb:nodebb, now it starts up on boot as the nodebb user just fine.

Thank you all very much for the help.

Hi,

I have a perfectly healthy installation of nodeBB at home on Debian9, works great if I start it with ./nodebb start but I'm trying to get systemd to start it.

I've found this: https://docs.nodebb.org/configuring/running/ which was a big step in the right direction.

My nodebb directory is here: /root/nodebb
and I've made a user called nodebb

This .service file works:

[Unit]
Description=NodeBB
Documentation=https://docs.nodebb.org
After=system.slice multi-user.target mongod.service

[Service]
Type=forking
User=root

StandardOutput=syslog
StandardError=syslog
SyslogIdentifier=nodebb

WorkingDirectory=/root/nodebb
ExecStart=/usr/bin/env node loader.js
Restart=always

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

When I change the user from root to nodebb, and do a systemctl daemon-reload (or a reboot), and then try to start the service, it fails. These are the errors that appear in the system journal:

-- Unit nodebb.service has begun starting up.
Feb 25 18:55:34 debian nodebb[854]: internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:583
Feb 25 18:55:34 debian nodebb[854]:     throw err;
Feb 25 18:55:34 debian nodebb[854]:     ^
Feb 25 18:55:34 debian nodebb[854]: Error: Cannot find module '/root/nodebb/loader.js'
Feb 25 18:55:34 debian nodebb[854]:     at Function.Module._resolveFilename (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:581:15)
Feb 25 18:55:34 debian nodebb[854]:     at Function.Module._load (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:507:25)
Feb 25 18:55:34 debian nodebb[854]:     at Function.Module.runMain (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:742:12)
Feb 25 18:55:34 debian nodebb[854]:     at startup (internal/bootstrap/node.js:283:19)
Feb 25 18:55:34 debian nodebb[854]:     at bootstrapNodeJSCore (internal/bootstrap/node.js:743:3)
Feb 25 18:55:34 debian systemd[1]: nodebb.service: Control process exited, code=exited status=1
Feb 25 18:55:34 debian systemd[1]: Failed to start NodeBB.
-- Subject: Unit nodebb.service has failed
-- Defined-By: systemd
-- Support: https://www.debian.org/support
-- 
-- Unit nodebb.service has failed.
-- 
-- The result is failed.
Feb 25 18:55:34 debian systemd[1]: nodebb.service: Unit entered failed state.
Feb 25 18:55:34 debian systemd[1]: nodebb.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
Feb 25 18:55:35 debian systemd[1]: nodebb.service: Service hold-off time over, scheduling restart.
Feb 25 18:55:35 debian systemd[1]: Stopped NodeBB.
-- Subject: Unit nodebb.service has finished shutting down
-- Defined-By: systemd
-- Support: https://www.debian.org/support
-- 
-- Unit nodebb.service has finished shutting down.
Feb 25 18:55:35 debian systemd[1]: nodebb.service: Start request repeated too quickly.
Feb 25 18:55:35 debian systemd[1]: Failed to start NodeBB.
-- Subject: Unit nodebb.service has failed
-- Defined-By: systemd
-- Support: https://www.debian.org/support
-- 
-- Unit nodebb.service has failed.

I've ensured that the nodebb user owns the /root/nodebb directory with
chown -R nodebb:nodebb /root/nodebb

Any ideas?

@FrankM Thanks for your help. I did that, still not working.

Hi NodeBB people, you folks are awesome. I have a minor, not critical problem that I am asking for help with. I've made a new group called 'Officers'. There's two users in that group. One of those users's badge shows in the forums, the other users badge doesn't show.

I did do some google searching for "nodebb badge not showing" and I found some pretty old posts, like 2+ years old. So I thought I'd open a new thread. Hope that's alright.

Details:
NodeBB version: v1.12.0
Node version: v10.15.3
OS: Debian 9

Details that may or may not matter:
The user who's badge shows is not a member of administrators, the user who's badge does not show is also a member of administrators.

Steps I've taken:
Removed users and re-added them. Rebuilt & restarted forums. Refreshed browser. Deleted & recreated the group. No happiness from any of those.

For the user whose badge doesn't show - no badge shows for him at all. I've got the forums setup so that administrator badges are not shown. But I do want to display officer badges.

Please help? What to do? I have no idea.

Thanks,
Wayne

@PitaJ This solved it for me. Thank you.

@PitaJ This solved it for me. Thank you.

Hi NodeBB people, you folks are awesome. I have a minor, not critical problem that I am asking for help with. I've made a new group called 'Officers'. There's two users in that group. One of those users's badge shows in the forums, the other users badge doesn't show.

I did do some google searching for "nodebb badge not showing" and I found some pretty old posts, like 2+ years old. So I thought I'd open a new thread. Hope that's alright.

Details:
NodeBB version: v1.12.0
Node version: v10.15.3
OS: Debian 9

Details that may or may not matter:
The user who's badge shows is not a member of administrators, the user who's badge does not show is also a member of administrators.

Steps I've taken:
Removed users and re-added them. Rebuilt & restarted forums. Refreshed browser. Deleted & recreated the group. No happiness from any of those.

For the user whose badge doesn't show - no badge shows for him at all. I've got the forums setup so that administrator badges are not shown. But I do want to display officer badges.

Please help? What to do? I have no idea.

Thanks,
Wayne

@julian I found this: https://github.com/NodeBB/NodeBB/issues/4734
Using the certbot configuration, I edited /etc/nginx/sites-available/default

Leaving the certbot managed parts as they are, my custom config looks like this now:

        proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-Proto $scheme;
        location / {
                proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:4567;
        }

The special part is the x-forwarded-proto line, that's what I was needing all along.

And in /home/nodebb/nodebb/config.json I'm setting the URL with https:

{
    "url": "https://forums.mydomain.com",
    "secret": "<REDACTED>",
    "database": "mongo",
    "port": "4567",
    "mongo": {
        "host": "127.0.0.1",
        "port": "27017",
        "username": "nodebb",
        "password": "<REDACTED>",
        "database": "nodebb",
        "uri": ""
    }
}

This resolved my problem.

julianlam created this issue in NodeBB/NodeBB

closed Ensure cookie is secure even if NodeBB does not handle the SSL certificate #4734

@PitaJ Your suggestion did work - but I had a lot of problems doing it, partly because of my own fault. Here's what happened.

I went into node_modules and just did a rm -rf * in there, emptying out the dir. Then I tried to run the ./nodebb install and it failed with several dependency errors. I tried sorting them out, but decided to take a copy of the node_modules directory from my home-based POC nodebb box that is using node 10.15.3, and I shipped that up to the prod forums - and put it into place, fixing ownership, and starting nodebb - and that worked, and it appears now that I can upload images. Awesome.

I respectfully suggest you advise folks to make backups of directories when you ask them to remove directories. The better of us of course take backups before hand - and normally I do but didn't this time (I'm too trusting). The lesser of us don't think of these things - and reminders go a long ways.

Again, thanks for your help @PitaJ you can consider this one solved!

@PitaJ So this is strange. I downgraded the forums to v10.15.3 and still I'm getting errors when uploading photos.

2019-03-23T20:37:11.013Z [4567/610] - error: uncaughtException: Could not locate the bindings file. Tried:
 → /home/nodebb/NodeBB/node_modules/sharp/build/sharp.node
 → /home/nodebb/NodeBB/node_modules/sharp/build/Debug/sharp.node
 → /home/nodebb/NodeBB/node_modules/sharp/build/Release/sharp.node
 → /home/nodebb/NodeBB/node_modules/sharp/out/Debug/sharp.node
 → /home/nodebb/NodeBB/node_modules/sharp/Debug/sharp.node
 → /home/nodebb/NodeBB/node_modules/sharp/out/Release/sharp.node
 → /home/nodebb/NodeBB/node_modules/sharp/Release/sharp.node
 → /home/nodebb/NodeBB/node_modules/sharp/build/default/sharp.node
 → /home/nodebb/NodeBB/node_modules/sharp/compiled/10.15.3/linux/x64/sharp.node
 → /home/nodebb/NodeBB/node_modules/sharp/addon-build/release/install-root/sharp.node
 → /home/nodebb/NodeBB/node_modules/sharp/addon-build/debug/install-root/sharp.node
 → /home/nodebb/NodeBB/node_modules/sharp/addon-build/default/install-root/sharp.node
 → /home/nodebb/NodeBB/node_modules/sharp/lib/binding/node-v64-linux-x64/sharp.node
Error: Could not locate the bindings file. Tried:
 → /home/nodebb/NodeBB/node_modules/sharp/build/sharp.node
 → /home/nodebb/NodeBB/node_modules/sharp/build/Debug/sharp.node
 → /home/nodebb/NodeBB/node_modules/sharp/build/Release/sharp.node
 → /home/nodebb/NodeBB/node_modules/sharp/out/Debug/sharp.node
 → /home/nodebb/NodeBB/node_modules/sharp/Debug/sharp.node
 → /home/nodebb/NodeBB/node_modules/sharp/out/Release/sharp.node
 → /home/nodebb/NodeBB/node_modules/sharp/Release/sharp.node
 → /home/nodebb/NodeBB/node_modules/sharp/build/default/sharp.node
 → /home/nodebb/NodeBB/node_modules/sharp/compiled/10.15.3/linux/x64/sharp.node
 → /home/nodebb/NodeBB/node_modules/sharp/addon-build/release/install-root/sharp.node
 → /home/nodebb/NodeBB/node_modules/sharp/addon-build/debug/install-root/sharp.node
 → /home/nodebb/NodeBB/node_modules/sharp/addon-build/default/install-root/sharp.node
 → /home/nodebb/NodeBB/node_modules/sharp/lib/binding/node-v64-linux-x64/sharp.node
    at bindings (/home/nodebb/NodeBB/node_modules/bindings/bindings.js:124:9)
    at Object.<anonymous> (/home/nodebb/NodeBB/node_modules/sharp/lib/constructor.js:10:34)
    at Module._compile (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:701:30)
    at Object.Module._extensions..js (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:712:10)
    at Module.load (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:600:32)
    at tryModuleLoad (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:539:12)
    at Function.Module._load (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:531:3)
    at Module.require (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:637:17)
    at require (internal/modules/cjs/helpers.js:22:18)
    at Object.<anonymous> (/home/nodebb/NodeBB/node_modules/sharp/lib/index.js:3:15) {"error":{"tries":["/home/nodebb/NodeBB/node_modules/sharp/build/sharp.node","/home/nodebb/NodeBB/node_modules/sharp/build/Debug/sharp.node","/home/nodebb/NodeBB/node_modules/sharp/build/Release/sharp.node","/home/nodebb/NodeBB/node_modules/sharp/out/Debug/sharp.node","/home/nodebb/NodeBB/node_modules/sharp/Debug/sharp.node","/home/nodebb/NodeBB/node_modules/sharp/out/Release/sharp.node","/home/nodebb/NodeBB/node_modules/sharp/Release/sharp.node","/home/nodebb/NodeBB/node_modules/sharp/build/default/sharp.node","/home/nodebb/NodeBB/node_modules/sharp/compiled/10.15.3/linux/x64/sharp.node","/home/nodebb/NodeBB/node_modules/sharp/addon-build/release/install-root/sharp.node","/home/nodebb/NodeBB/node_modules/sharp/addon-build/debug/install-root/sharp.node","/home/nodebb/NodeBB/node_modules/sharp/addon-build/default/install-root/sharp.node","/home/nodebb/NodeBB/node_modules/sharp/lib/binding/node-v64-linux-x64/sharp.node"]},"stack":"Error: Could not locate the bindings file. Tried:\n → /home/nodebb/NodeBB/node_modules/sharp/build/sharp.node\n → /home/nodebb/NodeBB/node_modules/sharp/build/Debug/sharp.node\n → /home/nodebb/NodeBB/node_modules/sharp/build/Release/sharp.node\n → /home/nodebb/NodeBB/node_modules/sharp/out/Debug/sharp.node\n → /home/nodebb/NodeBB/node_modules/sharp/Debug/sharp.node\n → /home/nodebb/NodeBB/node_modules/sharp/out/Release/sharp.node\n → /home/nodebb/NodeBB/node_modules/sharp/Release/sharp.node\n → /home/nodebb/NodeBB/node_modules/sharp/build/default/sharp.node\n → /home/nodebb/NodeBB/node_modules/sharp/compiled/10.15.3/linux/x64/sharp.node\n → /home/nodebb/NodeBB/node_modules/sharp/addon-build/release/install-root/sharp.node\n → /home/nodebb/NodeBB/node_modules/sharp/addon-build/debug/install-root/sharp.node\n → /home/nodebb/NodeBB/node_modules/sharp/addon-build/default/install-root/sharp.node\n → /home/nodebb/NodeBB/node_modules/sharp/lib/binding/node-v64-linux-x64/sharp.node\n    at bindings (/home/nodebb/NodeBB/node_modules/bindings/bindings.js:124:9)\n    at Object.<anonymous> (/home/nodebb/NodeBB/node_modules/sharp/lib/constructor.js:10:34)\n    at Module._compile (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:701:30)\n    at Object.Module._extensions..js (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:712:10)\n    at Module.load (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:600:32)\n    at tryModuleLoad (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:539:12)\n    at Function.Module._load (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:531:3)\n    at Module.require (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:637:17)\n    at require (internal/modules/cjs/helpers.js:22:18)\n    at Object.<anonymous> (/home/nodebb/NodeBB/node_modules/sharp/lib/index.js:3:15)","exception":true,"date":"Sat Mar 23 2019 20:37:11 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)","process":{"pid":610,"uid":1001,"gid":1001,"cwd":"/home/nodebb/NodeBB","execPath":"/usr/local/bin/node","version":"v10.15.3","argv":["/usr/local/bin/node","/home/nodebb/NodeBB/app.js"],"memoryUsage":{"rss":161124352,"heapTotal":125444096,"heapUsed":99242192,"external":37354140}},"os":{"loadavg":[0.42431640625,0.14453125,0.05078125],"uptime":68},"trace":[{"column":9,"file":"/home/nodebb/NodeBB/node_modules/bindings/bindings.js","function":"bindings","line":124,"method":null,"native":false},{"column":34,"file":"/home/nodebb/NodeBB/node_modules/sharp/lib/constructor.js","function":null,"line":10,"method":null,"native":false},{"column":30,"file":"internal/modules/cjs/loader.js","function":"Module._compile","line":701,"method":"_compile","native":false},{"column":10,"file":"internal/modules/cjs/loader.js","function":"Module._extensions..js","line":712,"method":".js","native":false},{"column":32,"file":"internal/modules/cjs/loader.js","function":"Module.load","line":600,"method":"load","native":false},{"column":12,"file":"internal/modules/cjs/loader.js","function":"tryModuleLoad","line":539,"method":null,"native":false},{"column":3,"file":"internal/modules/cjs/loader.js","function":"Module._load","line":531,"method":"_load","native":false},{"column":17,"file":"internal/modules/cjs/loader.js","function":"Module.require","line":637,"method":"require","native":false},{"column":18,"file":"internal/modules/cjs/helpers.js","function":"require","line":22,"method":null,"native":false},{"column":15,"file":"/home/nodebb/NodeBB/node_modules/sharp/lib/index.js","function":null,"line":3,"method":null,"native":false}]}
2019-03-23T20:37:11.014Z [4567/610] - error: Could not locate the bindings file. Tried:
 → /home/nodebb/NodeBB/node_modules/sharp/build/sharp.node
 → /home/nodebb/NodeBB/node_modules/sharp/build/Debug/sharp.node
 → /home/nodebb/NodeBB/node_modules/sharp/build/Release/sharp.node
 → /home/nodebb/NodeBB/node_modules/sharp/out/Debug/sharp.node
 → /home/nodebb/NodeBB/node_modules/sharp/Debug/sharp.node
 → /home/nodebb/NodeBB/node_modules/sharp/out/Release/sharp.node
 → /home/nodebb/NodeBB/node_modules/sharp/Release/sharp.node
 → /home/nodebb/NodeBB/node_modules/sharp/build/default/sharp.node
 → /home/nodebb/NodeBB/node_modules/sharp/compiled/10.15.3/linux/x64/sharp.node
 → /home/nodebb/NodeBB/node_modules/sharp/addon-build/release/install-root/sharp.node
 → /home/nodebb/NodeBB/node_modules/sharp/addon-build/debug/install-root/sharp.node
 → /home/nodebb/NodeBB/node_modules/sharp/addon-build/default/install-root/sharp.node
 → /home/nodebb/NodeBB/node_modules/sharp/lib/binding/node-v64-linux-x64/sharp.node {"tries":["/home/nodebb/NodeBB/node_modules/sharp/build/sharp.node","/home/nodebb/NodeBB/node_modules/sharp/build/Debug/sharp.node","/home/nodebb/NodeBB/node_modules/sharp/build/Release/sharp.node","/home/nodebb/NodeBB/node_modules/sharp/out/Debug/sharp.node","/home/nodebb/NodeBB/node_modules/sharp/Debug/sharp.node","/home/nodebb/NodeBB/node_modules/sharp/out/Release/sharp.node","/home/nodebb/NodeBB/node_modules/sharp/Release/sharp.node","/home/nodebb/NodeBB/node_modules/sharp/build/default/sharp.node","/home/nodebb/NodeBB/node_modules/sharp/compiled/10.15.3/linux/x64/sharp.node","/home/nodebb/NodeBB/node_modules/sharp/addon-build/release/install-root/sharp.node","/home/nodebb/NodeBB/node_modules/sharp/addon-build/debug/install-root/sharp.node","/home/nodebb/NodeBB/node_modules/sharp/addon-build/default/install-root/sharp.node","/home/nodebb/NodeBB/node_modules/sharp/lib/binding/node-v64-linux-x64/sharp.node"]}

I've rebooted the system, and rebuilt/updated NodeBB and still have this issue.

@PitaJ I'm on v11.12.0 Do I really need to downgrade?

@FrankM Thanks for your help. I did that, still not working.

Hi, I'm using NodeBB v1.12.0 on Debian 9, I use an Nginx reverse proxy that also does SSL. I'm having problems uploading .jpg pictures to threads. The .jpg I'm trying to upload is 880.4 kB in size, it's dimensions are 1536x1152 pixels.

Below are the errors produced when I try to upload a .jpg, I've replaced my real domain name with mydomain.com

2019-03-18T03:51:21.602Z [4567/1193] - error: uncaughtException: Could not locate the bindings file. Tried:
 → /home/nodebb/NodeBB/node_modules/sharp/build/sharp.node
 → /home/nodebb/NodeBB/node_modules/sharp/build/Debug/sharp.node
 → /home/nodebb/NodeBB/node_modules/sharp/build/Release/sharp.node
 → /home/nodebb/NodeBB/node_modules/sharp/out/Debug/sharp.node
 → /home/nodebb/NodeBB/node_modules/sharp/Debug/sharp.node
 → /home/nodebb/NodeBB/node_modules/sharp/out/Release/sharp.node
 → /home/nodebb/NodeBB/node_modules/sharp/Release/sharp.node
 → /home/nodebb/NodeBB/node_modules/sharp/build/default/sharp.node
 → /home/nodebb/NodeBB/node_modules/sharp/compiled/11.12.0/linux/x64/sharp.node
 → /home/nodebb/NodeBB/node_modules/sharp/addon-build/release/install-root/sharp.node
 → /home/nodebb/NodeBB/node_modules/sharp/addon-build/debug/install-root/sharp.node
 → /home/nodebb/NodeBB/node_modules/sharp/addon-build/default/install-root/sharp.node
 → /home/nodebb/NodeBB/node_modules/sharp/lib/binding/node-v67-linux-x64/sharp.node
Error: Could not locate the bindings file. Tried:
 → /home/nodebb/NodeBB/node_modules/sharp/build/sharp.node
 → /home/nodebb/NodeBB/node_modules/sharp/build/Debug/sharp.node
 → /home/nodebb/NodeBB/node_modules/sharp/build/Release/sharp.node
 → /home/nodebb/NodeBB/node_modules/sharp/out/Debug/sharp.node
 → /home/nodebb/NodeBB/node_modules/sharp/Debug/sharp.node
 → /home/nodebb/NodeBB/node_modules/sharp/out/Release/sharp.node
 → /home/nodebb/NodeBB/node_modules/sharp/Release/sharp.node
 → /home/nodebb/NodeBB/node_modules/sharp/build/default/sharp.node
 → /home/nodebb/NodeBB/node_modules/sharp/compiled/11.12.0/linux/x64/sharp.node
 → /home/nodebb/NodeBB/node_modules/sharp/addon-build/release/install-root/sharp.node
 → /home/nodebb/NodeBB/node_modules/sharp/addon-build/debug/install-root/sharp.node
 → /home/nodebb/NodeBB/node_modules/sharp/addon-build/default/install-root/sharp.node
 → /home/nodebb/NodeBB/node_modules/sharp/lib/binding/node-v67-linux-x64/sharp.node
    at bindings (/home/nodebb/NodeBB/node_modules/bindings/bindings.js:124:9)
    at Object.<anonymous> (/home/nodebb/NodeBB/node_modules/sharp/lib/constructor.js:10:34)
    at Module._compile (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:799:30)
    at Object.Module._extensions..js (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:810:10)
    at Module.load (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:666:32)
    at tryModuleLoad (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:606:12)
    at Function.Module._load (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:598:3)
    at Module.require (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:705:19)
    at require (internal/modules/cjs/helpers.js:14:16)
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2019-03-18T03:51:21.602Z [4567/1193] - error: Could not locate the bindings file. Tried:
 → /home/nodebb/NodeBB/node_modules/sharp/build/sharp.node
 → /home/nodebb/NodeBB/node_modules/sharp/build/Debug/sharp.node
 → /home/nodebb/NodeBB/node_modules/sharp/build/Release/sharp.node
 → /home/nodebb/NodeBB/node_modules/sharp/out/Debug/sharp.node
 → /home/nodebb/NodeBB/node_modules/sharp/Debug/sharp.node
 → /home/nodebb/NodeBB/node_modules/sharp/out/Release/sharp.node
 → /home/nodebb/NodeBB/node_modules/sharp/Release/sharp.node
 → /home/nodebb/NodeBB/node_modules/sharp/build/default/sharp.node
 → /home/nodebb/NodeBB/node_modules/sharp/compiled/11.12.0/linux/x64/sharp.node
 → /home/nodebb/NodeBB/node_modules/sharp/addon-build/release/install-root/sharp.node
 → /home/nodebb/NodeBB/node_modules/sharp/addon-build/debug/install-root/sharp.node
 → /home/nodebb/NodeBB/node_modules/sharp/addon-build/default/install-root/sharp.node
 → /home/nodebb/NodeBB/node_modules/sharp/lib/binding/node-v67-linux-x64/sharp.node {"tries":["/home/nodebb/NodeBB/node_modules/sharp/build/sharp.node","/home/nodebb/NodeBB/node_modules/sharp/build/Debug/sharp.node","/home/nodebb/NodeBB/node_modules/sharp/build/Release/sharp.node","/home/nodebb/NodeBB/node_modules/sharp/out/Debug/sharp.node","/home/nodebb/NodeBB/node_modules/sharp/Debug/sharp.node","/home/nodebb/NodeBB/node_modules/sharp/out/Release/sharp.node","/home/nodebb/NodeBB/node_modules/sharp/Release/sharp.node","/home/nodebb/NodeBB/node_modules/sharp/build/default/sharp.node","/home/nodebb/NodeBB/node_modules/sharp/compiled/11.12.0/linux/x64/sharp.node","/home/nodebb/NodeBB/node_modules/sharp/addon-build/release/install-root/sharp.node","/home/nodebb/NodeBB/node_modules/sharp/addon-build/debug/install-root/sharp.node","/home/nodebb/NodeBB/node_modules/sharp/addon-build/default/install-root/sharp.node","/home/nodebb/NodeBB/node_modules/sharp/lib/binding/node-v67-linux-x64/sharp.node"]}
2019-03-18T03:51:21.603Z [4567/1193] - info: [app] Shutdown (SIGTERM/SIGINT) Initialised.
2019-03-18T03:51:21.606Z [4567/1193] - info: [app] Web server closed to connections.
2019-03-18T03:51:21.606Z [4567/1193] - info: [app] Live analytics saved.
2019-03-18T03:51:21.607Z [4567/1193] - info: [app] Database connection closed.
2019-03-18T03:51:21.607Z [4567/1193] - info: [app] Shutdown complete.
[cluster] Child Process (1193) has exited (code: 1, signal: null)
[cluster] Spinning up another process...
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[benchpressjs] Unable to build or find a suitable native module, falling back to JS version
2019-03-18T03:51:23.267Z [4567/1229] - info: [socket.io] Restricting access to origin: http://forums.mydomain.com:*
2019-03-18T03:51:23.490Z [4567/1229] - info: Routes added
2019-03-18T03:51:23.492Z [4567/1229] - info: NodeBB Ready
2019-03-18T03:51:23.497Z [4567/1229] - info: Enabling 'trust proxy'
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@julian The big benefit of using certbot is it sets up a cron job and that job will automatically get you a new cert when your previous one is close to expiring.

root@debian:/home/wayne# cat /etc/letsencrypt/options-ssl-nginx.conf
# This file contains important security parameters. If you modify this file
# manually, Certbot will be unable to automatically provide future security
# updates. Instead, Certbot will print and log an error message with a path to
# the up-to-date file that you will need to refer to when manually updating
# this file.

ssl_session_cache shared:le_nginx_SSL:1m;
ssl_session_timeout 1440m;

ssl_protocols TLSv1 TLSv1.1 TLSv1.2;
ssl_prefer_server_ciphers on;

ssl_ciphers "ECDHE-ECDSA-CHACHA20-POLY1305:ECDHE-RSA-CHACHA20-POLY1305:ECDHE-ECDSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256:ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256:ECDHE-ECDSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384:ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384:DHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256:DHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384:ECDHE-ECDSA-AES128-SHA256:ECDHE-RSA-AES128-SHA256:ECDHE-ECDSA-AES128-SHA:ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA384:ECDHE-RSA-AES128-SHA:ECDHE-ECDSA-AES256-SHA384:ECDHE-ECDSA-AES256-SHA:ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA:DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA256:DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA:DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA256:DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA:ECDHE-ECDSA-DES-CBC3-SHA:ECDHE-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA:EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA:AES128-GCM-SHA256:AES256-GCM-SHA384:AES128-SHA256:AES256-SHA256:AES128-SHA:AES256-SHA:DES-CBC3-SHA:!DSS";

Any other ideas on this? I think probably this is being caused by the URL field in the config.json file not being what users use - but my problem is when I set it to https it breaks the site entirely. How do I set it up so that Nginx can do SSL and this not be a problem?