Hi, I’ve installed Discourse, and generally everything is working fine. However, when I attempt to add my Yubikey as a security key, I keep getting this error: The origin of the authentication request does not match the server origin. I cannot find any particular configuration option that would …

Oh, I think I got it. Enabling the force https setting in Discourse seems to have fixed it, I’m not sure why it was off. I don’t think it was necessary in the default config before adding another reverse proxy in front of it. Thanks for your help!

Could the hostname of your forum be different from what you’re accessing it through? For instance, is your app.yml hostname the same as what you put in your browser?

The hostname matches. The only thing is, the instance is behind an nginx proxy, so it may well be that the problem is here. However the proxy configuration is effectively SSL offload, so it’s a case of: Web Browser → Nginx proxy (https) → Discourse (http) So the connection between the browser an…

We’ve also got such a report. Also using a TLS terminating nginx reverse proxy in from of discourse. The error message doesn’t help to figure out what needs to change in the server configuration. code references: config/locales/server.en.yml main distance_in_…

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