Questions tagged [parse-server]
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Nginx with SSL - Refresh page give me 404
I recently install Nginx for my parse server with SSL support. Works fine when I type the base https url but when I try to refresh the page I got an 404 error. Maybe a misconfigured Ngix conf. Here is ...
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My Node.js droplet can't connect to DigitalOcean Managed redis
I have a Parse Server (which is a Node.js server basically) and I'm trying to connect to a redis database, which is hosted on DigitalOcean Managed Databases. Both servers are on the same VPC network ...
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Why doesn’t my DigitalOcean load balancer forward traffic to Parse Servers?
Today I created a load balancer and assigned to it 3 droplets (all 3 host parse servers), but it doesn't transfer the traffic to them. It doesn’t even pass the health checks! All 3 of my parse servers,...
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"CORS Multiple Origin Not Allowed" - using parse-server and apache2
I am using apache2 as a reverse proxy for my parse-server. In order to allow Cross Origin Requests I originally tried setting: Header always set Access-Control-Allow-Origin "*" in the ...
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Can this inbound & outbound bandwidth of my server cause issues?
I have a social app where users do the usual stuff of other social apps; upload multiple text and photo posts every hour, like & comment (a notification is created for each action), view custom/...
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SSL on a Parse Server
I have a production mobile app running on Parse Server, hosted on DigitalOcean. This is my setup: Droplet no1: Parse Server and Dashboard Droplet no2: MongoDB And this is how the client connects to ...
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Interpolate values as integers in HLC files
I am writing the template for a parametrized HashiCorp Nomad job. One of its parameters is priority, which is supposed to be an integer between 0 and 100. Like other tools, Nomad supports variable ...
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mongo: /data/db not found on AWS ec2 t2.micro after launching an AMI image of the instance
S.O.S!! I had my t2.micro with Bitnami Parse image running for a good while. everything was fun and games until I needed to upgrade to t2.medium. In order to do so I cloned my server to an AMI ...
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Unable to upload .p12 certificate from local Mac to remote parse server on AWS ec2 - bitnami
I am well aware of how to upload .p12 cert for iOS push notifications - via Heroku or Back4App. However my Parse server is hosted on AWS ec2 instance with Bitnami image. Hence I can only interact with ...
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Receiving i/o failure on parse server
I am using parse server as a BAAS for my android app. Everything Is working like a charm, except, when I use the app as a single user intensely I.E. if I send several requests in a very small span of ...
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Parsing Command Output in Bash Script
I need a bash script that takes the output of a shell command and parses that output to pull out the id, and website url for each line in the table that can then be used to execute additional bash ...
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Parse server - File not found
Parse server version: 2.8.4 Parse dashboard version: 1.2.0 MongoDB version: 4.0.2 Hosting service: DigitalOcean ======================================= I'm transferring my app to a new Parse ...
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Caching with Redis on a Parse Server
I'm on a 2.6.3 Parse Server and I need to cache the results of queries, to speed things up! I understand that Parse Server offers a Redis adapter. What exactly do I have to do, in order to start ...
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disable default user authentication in parse server
How can we prevent user from signing up with username and password? we want our users to only login with account kit and don't want someone try to sign up with email address or other login methods. ...
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Parse-server/Heroku email account verification not working
I am trying to implement the email verification system on Parse-Server (/Heroku), when a user account is created; so that the user can confirm his/her account creation. Things are working well for ...
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How to scale horizontally a Parse Server?
My current setup is: 1 Parse Server - 2.6.3 1 MongoDB Server - 3.4.9 Both running on Ubuntu VMs. In a few weeks, we are expecting our user base to grow significantly! We are currently using 2 VMs ...
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MongoDB - Efficient backup
I have an application running on a Parse Server and another server where MongoDB runs. Both VMs are under Azure (Ubuntu VMs). A few weeks back, I wrote a db backup bash script which is run by crontab ...
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Hosting reactjs app with parse server
I am trying to host a reactjs app in thesame site as a parse server. I'm using the following // Serve static assets app.use(express.static(path.resolve(__dirname, '..', 'build'))); // Always return ...
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How to generate JWT tokens with Parse
Im using Parse. By default, on auth, it generate tokens like r:806398efc339d133ff9c2fe52a3f6229. Is there a way to generate JWT tokens?
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Parse Server - Image files' path returns localhost
I have deployed 2 Ubuntu servers on Azure. First, I have installed the Parse Server and the second, I installed MongoDB. (I have also put a ready db there from my previous server via mongorestore) ...
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Parse Dashboard - Server not reachable: unable to connect to server
I have deployed 2 Ubuntu servers on Azure. First, I have installed the Parse Server and the second, I installed MongoDB. (I have also put a ready db there) Everything works fine! Both Parse Server ...
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Azure data disk for Parse Server
I already have deployed an Ubuntu VM from Azure and I want to install Parse Server on it. Yesterday, I saw this: screenshot from azure docs This is what I have on "Disks" of my server now: ...
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Cannot GET /parse/functions/
I am quite new to maintaining Parse, but already I am about to go insane ;) We have a parse server setup on a debian machine. It runs nginx and uses pm2 for the deployment of Parse. Parse-Dashboard ...
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Parse server cloud code suddenly crashes with no logging
I have a cloud code function that was working for a few weeks and then started crashing yesterday. It causes the whole parse server to shut down and doesn't produce any logging, making it very ...
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how to redirects HTTP to HTTPs using iptables and parse-server (Parse Server)
I'm dealing with SSL/https on my server. I configured two ports, one for HTTP (4000) and another for HTTPS (9080) using iptables: $ sudo iptables -t natL -n --line-number 1 REDIRECT tcp -- 0....
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Parse as multi-tenant SaaS service
I would like to build task system (kind of github). I want to organize my data as following: organization -> project -> task This is a multi-tenant application (each node should be able to handle ...
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Advice on sharding the Parse Server _User collection?
The out-of-the-box _User collection in Mongo for Parse Server has a unique index on both username and email. Given that, what's the ideal strategy for sharding this collection? My initial plan was ...
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Google App Engine keeps creating 4 instances when I want it to limit to 1
My Parse App running on google app engine is configured in its app.yaml to use a minimum and maximum of 1 instance in the flexible environment, yet I keep seeing it create 4 instances. Because of this,...
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Can't request data with web client from parse server
I have an iOS app and a javascript web client. The iOS app is working as expected but with the web client I always get this error message: Failed to load resource: the server responded with a status ...
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Cannot connect to MongoDb over SSL
I am trying to follow these instructions to connect to MongoDB over SSL: https://gist.github.com/leommoore/1e773a7d230ca4bbe1c2 A minor change I made was to use certbot certonly instead of ...
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Configuring Parse-Server with HTTPS in Express
Running Express.js + Parse Server and trying to configure HTTPS on the Parse API route with the 'https' JS library. Code snippet var https = require('https'); .... https.createServer(config....
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Deploying Parse server with Parse Live Query on AWS elasticbeanstalk
I have deployed NodeJs Parse server with Parse LiveQuery on AWS elasticbeanstalk but it seems like LiveQuery is not working. When i try to subscribe from my iOS client app it gives me error. Error: ...
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Force requests to application server by default with Nginx
Noobie question here. I've setted up Parse-Server in my Ubuntu droplet and i'm currently dealing with an issue here. My ssl is from letsencrypt In this file /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/default I have ...
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Horizontally Scaling Parse Server?
Are separate instances of Parse Server independent? IOW, do they coordinate through the MongoDB backend? I suspect so. If so, then I can run multiple systems behind a load balancer and synthesize ...
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High response times Parse Server
I just set up a Heroku Standard Dyno connected to Mlab M1 dedicated cluster and am seeing high response times in New Relic for some calls. Digging a bit into New Relic's transaction trace I notice a ...
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How you running more than one instance of parse on multi core servers?
I'm wondering if anyone is running something like pm2, forever or what ever to run more than one parse instance on servers that more than a few cores? If so can you provide any suggestions on ...
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how to tunnel two url's (different ports) through https?
I have one one http server running on 1337. and another http server running on 4040. Requirment: I am trying to tunnel them both through https on port 443 using apache2 I have already succeeded (I ...
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parse-server push for multiple apps?
We are trying to implement push to applications, using parse-server-push-adapter over parse-server. We migrated our apps from parse.com. Our problem is that we have multiple apps using the same ...
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Implement 'expire inactive session' feature in parse server?
The "Expire Inactive Session" feature is available in parse.com as per (http://blog.parse.com/announcements/announcing-new-enhanced-sessions/) Apparently, it didn't make it into the open source parse ...
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How to view Parse Server logs in Parse Dashboard?
I'm using parse-server 2.2.14, with parse-dashboard 1.0.14. According to this merged pull request, logs can be viewed from the dashboard. But my dashboard just show "No logs in the last 30 days" ...
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parse-server upload size limit , more than 100MB?
I am trying to upload a file to my parse server(using javascript sdk), but I need to make sure i can upload up to 500MB (for example). Is it possoible to be done in parse-server ? Can it be edited in ...
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Parse server on AWS ElasticBeanStalk does not stream .mp4 PFFile to iOS AVPlayer and Safari?
Parse server hosted on AWS ElasticBeanStalk(deployed with AWS button) cannot stream .mp4 PFFile saved in mongodb on AWS EC2 (EBS) to iOS AVPlayer and Safari browser. Video plays on Chrome browser but ...
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BIND cache dump file format parsing
I'm trying to analyze the contents of BIND's cache by looking into dump files, the ones generated by rndc dumpdb -cachedb. ; ; Start view _default ; ; ; Cache dump of view '_default' (cache _default) ...
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404 Not Found error after Parse migration
0 down vote favorite I've followed the migration guide and setup the Mongodb, NodeJS and Parse server locally on our Linux server. I'm able use the REST API to login to the game and download game-...
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Node.js app on ElasticBeanstalk cannot access private key file on server
I have a node.js application running on ElasticBeanstalk. Part of it's configuration is a path to a .p12 key file. When the application attempts to use the key file, a permission denied exception is ...
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How to run a Parse Live Query Server (Web Sockets) behind an AWS Load Balancer?
ParseLiveQuery depends on Websockets. More generically this question could be about getting web sockets to work behind an AWS ELB. I'm using the new Parse Server configured in AWS using Elastic ...
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"MongoError write EPIPE" in Parse-Server Installation
I'm helping a friend with migrating a Parse app to a dedicated server as opposed to a hosting provider, and I've gotten stuck trying to resolve an error that I THINK is happening in the Parse Server ...
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How migrate Parse Web App to my own Server
There are a lot of manuals for migrating Parse servers to different platforms but none of them say which kind of plugins and packages are needed for those web applications which work with Expressjs on ...
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parse server file upload
I've created an instance of parse server. I can get data from the collection no problem, but I'm stuck as to how to upload text files. I'm running curl from windows to upload a simple backup log. ...
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Problems on migrating Parse.com app to AWS EC2 Ubuntu
I have an EC2 machine with Ubuntu installed on it. On the machine, I have installed Node.js, MongoDB, and Github version of Parse Server. I have created a database called euro. In this database, I've ...