403 Forbidden Error in webui (piefed.zeromedia.vip)

submitted 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) by guynamedzero@piefed.zeromedia.vip to c/piefed_meta@piefed.social

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HI! First, I'm very sorry if this is the wrong community, if there's a better comm, please point me in their direction.

I've been running my own piefed instance for a few months now, but recently (maybe? idk how long this has been happening), if I try to open the webui from a private browser tab, or from another device, I get a 403 forbidden error code. {"code":403,"status":"Forbidden"}. Is this a common issue?

I've been trying to look this up online and it seems like it might be nginx, but I have many other things running behind nginx with that don't act like this, so I figured I'd ask here before going to a more general nginx community.

You're more than welcome to try going to my instance yourself, at piefed.zeromedia.vip

UPDATE:

Turning the "private instance" setting on and then back off seems to have fixed it. I'm not 100% yet but I can currently access piefed on all devices/browser sessions

Update 2:

That didn't quite fix it, for some reason, turning the private instance setting on does fix it, but as soon as I turn it off again, it breaks

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[-] guynamedzero@piefed.zeromedia.vip 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Either it's not correctly detecting it or I must be setting the variable wrong, going to piefed.../check_ip returns a blank page with "not found".

In my .env.docker file I've placed FLASK_DEBUG=1 , is that correct?

I would be willing to bet that this is why it's behaving this way. I have it running behind nginx and I'm not 100% sure nginx is passing the ip's

[-] rimu@piefed.social 2 points 2 weeks ago

Sorry it's /test_ip not /check_ip.

[-] guynamedzero@piefed.zeromedia.vip 1 points 2 weeks ago

Yep, definitely not the right ip, it's returning 172.21.0.1, which I think is a docker thing. Any ideas on how I can fix that?

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