403 Forbidden error when accessing the webthing ( webthing-node) via Nginx reverse proxy or from public cloud

apvenkat · December 23, 2020, 4:28am

Hi Team,
I have few custom webthings running on my local sever and my webthings gateway is running on cloud. The idea is to use Nginx as a reverse proxy to server all the custom webthings under different URL and do a port forwarding from my router and add the custom webthings to my gateway running in cloud. I am doing this for a quick demo, I can access the webthing description locally but when I try to access the proxied webthings I am getting “403 Forbidden” error and also when I try to run a webthing in public cloud , I am facing the same issue . Any way to fix it ?

mrstegeman · December 26, 2020, 7:38pm

You need to make sure you provide the right hostname argument when creating your WebThingServer instance.

github.com

WebThingsIO/webthing-node/blob/master/lib/server.ts#L683



/**
 * Initialize the WebThingServer.
 *
 * For documentation on the additional route handlers, see:
 * http://expressjs.com/en/4x/api.html#app.use
 *
 * @param {Object} things Things managed by this server -- should be of type
 *                        SingleThing or MultipleThings
 * @param {Number} port Port to listen on (defaults to 80)
 * @param {String} hostname Optional host name, i.e. mything.com
 * @param {Object} sslOptions SSL options to pass to the express server
 * @param {Object[]} additionalRoutes List of additional routes to add to
 *                                    server, i.e. [{path: '..', handler: ..}]
 * @param {String} basePath Base URL path to use, rather than '/'
 */
constructor(
  things: SingleThing|MultipleThings,
  port: number|null = null,
  hostname: string|null = null,
  sslOptions: https.ServerOptions|null = null,