Faye Troubleshooting

[johnjelinek]

I'm using Phusion Passenger + nginx instead of thin. Almost everything works right out of the box, except I need to add therubyracer gem and faye constantly has to reconnect. Do you have any recommendations on getting faye to work?

Comm link is up! application.js?body=1:29
XHR finished loading: POST "http://localhost:3000/remote/faye". faye.js:2
XHR finished loading: POST "http://localhost:3000/remote/faye". faye.js:2
Comm link to Cybertron is down! application.js?body=1:29
XHR finished loading: POST "http://localhost:3000/remote/faye". faye.js:2
Comm link is up! application.js?body=1:29

I see a lot of this repeated in the console.

[alexhulbert]

Could this be linked to issue #327? I know faye was freaking out there.

[johnjelinek]

It's different though, in the issue you referenced, faye is returning 404s,
in mine it successfully connects and dies. It seems like maybe Passenger or
nginx aren't handling the websockets so well perhaps. Any suggestions?
On May 9, 2014 8:54 AM, "Taconut" [email protected] wrote:

Could this be linked to issue #327#327?
I know faye was freaking out there.

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[scouttyg]

I notice Cybertron goes down a bit in the console, but it usually comes right back up. Are you experiencing dropped messages? IE If you post a message are you still seeing things like:

XHR finished loading: POST "https:/yourapp.com/channels/1/activities". 

[scouttyg]

What version of Phusion Passenger + nginx are you using for the app? From faye-websocket's documentation:

(supported environments)

Phusion Passenger >= 4.0 with nginx >= 1.4

[johnjelinek]

I'm not noticing dropped messages, but the account menu in the top right
isn't responding to clicks. POSTs are successful. I'm using the latest
passenger/nginx mentioned in this docker container:
https://github.com/phusion/passenger-docker.

I created a kandan dockerfile to spin up kandan instances on demand, I
wanted to depend on the phusion ruby container because the default kandan
install instructions weren't working for me (had problems with building the
json native gem) and their container had that fixed.
On May 10, 2014 10:39 AM, "scouttyg" [email protected] wrote:

What version of Phusion Passenger + nginx are you using for the app? From
faye-websocket's documentation:

(supported environments)

Phusion Passenger >= 4.0 with nginx >= 1.4

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[johnjelinek]

I now have both nginx serving through passenger on port 8080 and thin serving simultaneously on port 3000. I'm noticing that the thin server is having the loading messages problem and the passenger server is getting a popup after I login saying it cannot connect (but it does seem to send messages and load previous messages).

[johnjelinek]

This is the message through phusion passenger:

[johnjelinek]

lol, I have no idea how to debug this ... it's intermittent. After a few reloads, both load previous messages ... even though passenger is still saying that message on page refresh.

[johnjelinek]

Perhaps I need to upgrade the connection to support websockets in nginx 1.6, but it's not proxying the connection to passenger, it's running passenger through custom nginx commands.

[johnjelinek]

currently, only in the 3000 (thin) server do multiple users display in the chat list.

[johnjelinek]

I'm using vagrant/docker for all this ... so please let me know if you'd like a copy of my files to spin this up yourself for further analysis.

[johnjelinek]

Note: you can see an on-going discussion here phusion/passenger-docker#22 as well.

[miurahr]

Here is my (partially) working snippet for nginx/faye configuration for nginx-1.9.2.

        map $http_upgrade $connection_upgrade {
            default Upgrade;
            ''      close;
        }

    location /remote/ {
                proxy_pass http://kandanserver;
                proxy_http_version 1.1;
                proxy_set_header Upgrade $http_upgrade;
                proxy_set_header Connection $connection_upgrade;
                proxy_set_header Host $host;
                proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr;
                proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
                proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-Proto $scheme;
                add_header Front-End-Https on;
                proxy_connect_timeout 90;
                proxy_read_timeout 86400;
                proxy_send_timeout 90;
                proxy_buffering off;
                proxy_redirect off;
        }
    location / {
                proxy_pass http://kandanserver;
                proxy_set_header Host $host;
                proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr;
                proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
                proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-Proto https;
     }

One big point is http protocol upgrade option to support WebSocket. It has an issue not to make desktop notification working. I've used kandan with https, it may be an issue with https support.