Persona login error via pagekite reverse tunnel

[jasonkgreen]

I have a node.js instance of SFW running in a debian VM which is also running pagekite to reverse tunnel to the wider world.

I can access the instance as localhost:3000 on the VM and successfully log in via Persona, but I get a "Login failure: unable to log you in" error popup when I try to do the same thing via the pagekite reverse tunnel. Pagekite support says that pagekite is just tunneling and I should get the same thing I would on localhost, but I'm not getting that.

[ozten]

Is the protocol, hostname or port number different when you are using Pagekite?

The Persona config values must match what is in your address bar, otherwise an "audience mismatch" will happen.

[jasonkgreen]

Aha, The port 3000 of the original instance is shifted to port 80 (I think) when it goes through pagekite. It may cause a hostname change as well. Is there a way to get SFW to run over port 80?

[paul90]

The server port is set using --port or -p

The Persona audience is set using --url, which you will need to set as this defaults to http://localhost

[jasonkgreen]

I had to use pm2 to start it b/c of some node flakiness. Would you end up with something like

pm2 start something.js -p 80 --url http://site.i.want.example.com

?

[paul90]

Not sure, as I don't use pm2, but I think you will want something like

pm2 start path_to_fedwiki/index.js -- -p 80 --url http://site.i.want.example.com

pm2 parameters will need to come before the --

[almereyda]

What about wiki farms (--farm) here?

I'm running one locally serving ~6 local wikis which are occasionally synced (either by file system/db sync, in this setup supposedly even by forking between the LAN and WAN instances run by a farm, or sooner or later mediated via browser) to public facing wikis.

[jasonkgreen]

Paul -- It didn't throw an error when I passed the parameters, but I still couldn't get Persona login to work. Not sure why

Jon -- It's only login and editing that won't work remotely. I can fork from it without problem. My Persona difficulties mean that I have to be logged in from the VM localhost to make changes. This is a smaller problem in the grand scheme of things,

I'm now getting an error about alternate addresses, which is more than I was getting. The --port flag doesn't seem to affect the port SFW is running on.

[paul90]

Just tried pm2, as far as I can see you need to remove the app from the process list before starting it with different parameters, using pm2 delete, but it appears to work as expected.

[jasonkgreen]

Got it. Actually it's
pm2 stop [id of wiki process]
pm2 delete [id of wiki process]
pm2 start ./index.js -- -p 3000 --url http://mysubdomain.pagekite.me

You need to tell persona what port SFW is running on, rather than the port it's forwarded to via pagekite.

Thanks for all the help.

[WardCunningham]

@jasonkgreen summarizes what works with pagekite here:
http://blog.jasongreen.net/2014/08/personal-wikis-a-how-to-including-better-icons/