I had a program built, and am running XAMPP on windows. I am unable to get it to work externally. I tried changing the port, and have windows firewall disabled and the port forwarded. Wondering if someone can help take a look at it.
it runs locally fine from what I can tell by running php artisan serve --host {ip} --port {port}
help 
@JaredBusch said in Nginx setup:
@smartkid808 said in Nginx setup:
@thwr said in Nginx setup:
I prefer nginx over everything else when it comes to reverse proxies. There are special purpose proxies like Traefik, but nginx is the ultimate general purpose swiss army knife.
Nice. That's what I gathered from what I read. Now to work on getting it setup. Tried once a while ago and gave up. Now to try again ^_^
https://www.mangolassi.it/topic/16651/install-nginx-as-a-reverse-proxy-on-fedora-27
@JaredBusch said in Nginx setup:
@smartkid808 said in Nginx setup:
@thwr said in Nginx setup:
I prefer nginx over everything else when it comes to reverse proxies. There are special purpose proxies like Traefik, but nginx is the ultimate general purpose swiss army knife.
Nice. That's what I gathered from what I read. Now to work on getting it setup. Tried once a while ago and gave up. Now to try again ^_^
https://www.mangolassi.it/topic/16651/install-nginx-as-a-reverse-proxy-on-fedora-27
Thanks Jared, I'll take a look at that.. I'll follow your CentOS7 steps in the link. Hopefully I can figure out the conf file. Looks confusing. My brain hasn't been really working lately. lol
@thwr said in Nginx setup:
I prefer nginx over everything else when it comes to reverse proxies. There are special purpose proxies like Traefik, but nginx is the ultimate general purpose swiss army knife.
Nice. That's what I gathered from what I read. Now to work on getting it setup. Tried once a while ago and gave up. Now to try again ^_^
@scottalanmiller said in Nginx setup:
Depends, if you are copying configs, yes. If you are trying to customize, no. It's a solid "medium" on the difficulty level. Not hard, for sure, but it's not a set and forget kind of thing. There are multiple settings and lots of ways to break it. Once you have a working config, copying it to do again is pretty easy.
Copying configs? I'll have to look more into it.. Interesting. Kind of scary on the "medium level" lol
@scottalanmiller said in Nginx setup:
Not possible. But as long as links are https you have nothing to worry about and I think all browser default to https now when not specified.
Thats cool.. Did not know that. That would prob work. It's really only going to be me 99% of the time accessing stuff.
Is it pretty easy for a newb to setup nginx?
@Pete-S said in Nginx setup:
Can't be done because DNS will only resolve the host name to ip address.
That's what I figured, but was hoping for some magical unicorn. lol.
I am looking at setting up Ngnix in my home lab. Not sure how to do it yet, and not good with Linux, so wondering if there is anything I should look for or know, or any tips to make it easy :-).
I have port 80 blocked by ISP, but will be passing all via 443. Anyone know a way to have either GoDaddy or no-ip force 80 to 443 when resolving host name?
@Ylian Awesome, THanks Yilan, I knew I saw somewhere about that.. Thanks again. Have a nice week
@Ylian said in Comparing MeshCentral 2 to ScreenConnect:
. The "port" setting in config.json will change the port used by MeshCentral, "aliasport" will change the port MeshCentral tells the agents to connect to. So, if you have a port map in front of MeshCentral, use "aliasport" to indicate the "real" port that will be used. Hope it makes sense.
Hi Yilan,
Sorry for the late reply. Thanks, yea I know I will have to reinstall agents.. Not a big deal. Do I need the aliasport? or can I just set the port to say 4430?
and one more question. If I get a real (not private) cert will I have to redeploy agents? I was thinking about getting a cert later thats why. thanks
Is there a way to change the port of MC after install to something other than 443?
If I remember right I could change it in the config file, but wanted to double-check before I play with it.
I don't have many clients so can always reinstall or change the port in the config file, so no issue there.
@JaredBusch said in Comparing MeshCentral 2 to ScreenConnect:
@smartkid808 said in Comparing MeshCentral 2 to ScreenConnect:
One thing that would be nice would be to have the remote machine automatically lock when you press disconnect. Prob best to set it per-machine.
Per machine is a horrible idea for anything with a tool like this.
Per group is where this type of setting should be.As for your thought. Make an issue. I don't see one for this feature request.
https://github.com/Ylianst/MeshCentral/issues
Yea, group sounds better.. Will do.. tnx
One thing that would be nice would be to have the remote machine automatically lock when you press disconnect. Prob best to set it per-machine.
@Scott said in Comparing MeshCentral 2 to ScreenConnect:
@smartkid808 said in Comparing MeshCentral 2 to ScreenConnect:
@Scott said in Comparing MeshCentral 2 to ScreenConnect:
Is anyone else running into an issue whereby running the installer on Windows causes two entries to be made in list of machines? One shows agent is connected, other does not.
Identically named machines show up in nodes listing: Owner-HP, or User-Laptop, etc.
This does not happen with all installs, but has on last several.I have never seen it, but I did see that when I installed it (unattended) and also ran it (ad-hoc connection). I was just curious what would happen if I did that. Hopefully Ylian has some insight.
Did one show up as connected and the other not?
Both showed as online
@Scott said in Comparing MeshCentral 2 to ScreenConnect:
Is anyone else running into an issue whereby running the installer on Windows causes two entries to be made in list of machines? One shows agent is connected, other does not.
Identically named machines show up in nodes listing: Owner-HP, or User-Laptop, etc.
This does not happen with all installs, but has on last several.
I have never seen it, but I did see that when I installed it (unattended) and also ran it (ad-hoc connection). I was just curious what would happen if I did that. Hopefully Ylian has some insight.
@Ylian said in Comparing MeshCentral 2 to ScreenConnect:
On the power timeline... yes yes... I need to fix this. One thing that would help is to download the power timeline raw data (The "Download Power Events" button on the top right of the power lines display) and make sure the raw data is correct. If it is, it's just me drawing it wrong. If it's not, I need to go fix something deeper in the server. Feedback on this would be appreciated.
Hi Ylian
Not a big issue for me, but please let me know what I can do to help you out!. Here is a screenshot. Its been off since the 17th, but showing on 24/7. I can email you or whatever you need. Any additional files/exports/logs.
Time State Previous State
Fri May 17 2019 17:53:28 GMT+0000 (UTC) 1
Sun May 19 2019 04:53:31 GMT+0000 (UTC) 0
@Scott said in Comparing MeshCentral 2 to ScreenConnect:
How does the Power State graph work?
I have several clients that show "Device is powered from 12:00:00 AM to 3:50:00 PM" for today May, 22; however, the agent is not connected and the machine icon shows "Last seen: 5/22/2019, 12:57:30 PM" or "Last seen: 5/21/2019, 7:59:00 PM"
Looking at the graph, the machine has been connected all day, however elsewhere it indicates the machine was last seen last night.
Edit: To follow up, another computer has full bars on the 7 Day Power State: "Device is powered from 12:00:00 AM to 12:00:00 AM" For 5/16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21 and for today 5/22, it says, "Device is powered from 12:00:00 AM to 9:26:43 AM." yet the device icon says last seen 5/17/2019, 11:12:22 AM.
I have the same issue. Been meaning to ask but kept forgetting.
@Ylian said in Comparing MeshCentral 2 to ScreenConnect:
What is the "correct" alternative to MongoDB on Fedora? Maybe I can build a different database binding...
By the way, I just added auto-backup into MeshCentral 0.3.4-t, add this to the "settings" section:
"AutoBackup": { "backupInvervalHours": 24, "keepLastDaysBackup": 15, "zippassword": "test" }This will zip a new backup every 24 hours and place the result in "meshcentral-backup". You can optionally say how many days before removing old backups and if you want to password protect the backup zip file, you can set a password. If you use MongoDB, it will call "mongodump" to backup the database and include it in the .zip file.
will you be adding this to the gui? or should I just add this to the config.json?
Also just updated to 0.3.5-a Thanks for keeping the releases coming
@smartkid808 said in Comparing MeshCentral 2 to ScreenConnect:
@Ylian said in Comparing MeshCentral 2 to ScreenConnect:
@smartkid808 If you see this error:
Error: ENOENT: no such file or directory, open '/home/wscheele/views/layouts/main.handlebars'This was due to a new version of express-handlebars 3.1.0 that broke MeshCentral. I released a new version of MeshCentral last night v0.3.4-k with a fix for this.
Thanks Ylin, anyway to fix without complete wipe and reload? or would you recommend a wipe reload? I do have a backup from 2 weeks ago, and would only loose 1 client that was attached (if they are lost when restore is done).
ok, I got it back up some how.. I updated linux by finding this (might not be right command)... Usually I just run apt-get update then upgrade every so often.
I think this is what I did
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
cd /home/wscheele/node_modules/
sudo npm install meshcentral
Still got odd errors, but tried to start it manually, and it started (it wasn't starting after server updates for some reason)
cd /home/wscheele/node_modules/
node meshcentral
Now to redo the auto start thing.. Hope I can figure this out again.. I prob did part of this if not all of this wrong. But I have no clue what I was doing and it's not production, so wasn't too worried.
I do also want to disable the create account thing.. I will look into that to I guess
@Ylian said in Comparing MeshCentral 2 to ScreenConnect:
@smartkid808 If you see this error:
Error: ENOENT: no such file or directory, open '/home/wscheele/views/layouts/main.handlebars'This was due to a new version of express-handlebars 3.1.0 that broke MeshCentral. I released a new version of MeshCentral last night v0.3.4-k with a fix for this.
Thanks Ylin, anyway to fix without complete wipe and reload? or would you recommend a wipe reload? I do have a backup from 2 weeks ago, and would only loose 1 client that was attached (if they are lost when restore is done).
@scottalanmiller said in Comparing MeshCentral 2 to ScreenConnect:
Honestly, I'd start over with a good install. You really don't want this running out of your home directory or as an end user. You want it installed by root under /opt.
I have a backup from the other week. I think I just put the user account since thats what the setup put me thru. Can't exactly remember.
do the above command after I reload Ubuntu?