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I have a copy of this topic open over on the (naturally) powered-by-Discourse Ghost forum, but, in thinking about the issue, I realized I don’t actually know if the problem lies in my Ghost configuration or in my Discourse configuration. Consequently, I am opening this topic here to see if anyone is able to provide any insight.

I’ve been using WordPress for a long time and I am now considering moving some of those sites over to Ghost (yes, I’m sure this is a common story). As always, there’s a bit of a learning curve when switching from one software system to another. At present, I am attempting to integrate my Discourse-based forum with my Ghost-based test blog.

I admittedly do not (yet) have a firm grasp on all of the concepts in Ghost, which may explain (at least part of) why I am having trouble getting this embed to work. I would like to have Discourse-based comments available on all posts on my blog, but I would like to have posts on the blog appear in categories on Discourse based on the blog post’s tags (e.g., a post tagged “Philosophy” should appear in the “Philosophy” category on Discourse).

If I am not mistaken, this means that I will need a different embed/host configured for each category that will require comments. However, this raises additional questions. Here are my present questions/issues:

  1. How should posts with multiple categories, each of which allows comments, be handled? How would such a post be handled if multiple embeds/hosts apply to it?
  2. Will comments show on the main/home page or only when displayed via an endpoint (i.e., a whitelisted path in Discourse) for which comments are enabled (e.g., /philosophy/.* or /politics/.*)?
  3. Does a generic whitelist of /.* work? Would this effectively enable comment in all posts?
  4. I am currently using the following code on my blog in an attempt to enable Discourse-based comments:
<div id='discourse-comments'></div>

<script type="text/javascript">
	DiscourseEmbed = { discourseUrl: 'https://forum.coreyjmahler.com/',
		discourseEmbedUrl: '{{url absolute="true"}}' };

	(function() {
		var d = document.createElement('script'); d.type = 'text/javascript'; d.async = true;
		d.src = DiscourseEmbed.discourseUrl + 'javascripts/embed.js';
		(document.getElementsByTagName('head')[0] || document.getElementsByTagName('body')[0]).appendChild(d);
	})();
</script>

However, as can be seen from this test post, the code is clearly not working. Why?

Additional Information

  • I have already cleared all caches, and, in fact, had Cloudflare paused while I was working on this.
  • The following resource throws a 404 error in Safari:
    https://blog.coreyjmahler.com/assets/main/css/main.css.map/
    but there are no other errors reported.
  • The following error appears a number of times in the Ghost logs:
{"name":"Log","hostname":"blog-coreyjmahler-com","pid":2821,"level":50,"req":{"meta":{"requestId":"4cfbf860-0d7f-11e9-b0b9-a55cf68e3775","userId":null},"url":"/users/me/?include=roles","method":"GET","originalUrl":"/ghost/api/v2/admin/users/me/?include=roles","params":{},"headers":{"x-forwarded-for":"A.B.C.D","x-forwarded-proto":"https","x-real-ip":"A.B.C.D","host":"blog.coreyjmahler.com","connection":"close","user-agent":"Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.14; rv:64.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/64.0","accept":"application/json, text/javascript, */*; q=0.01","accept-language":"en-US,en;q=0.5","accept-encoding":"gzip, deflate, br","referer":"https://blog.coreyjmahler.com/ghost/","content-type":"application/json; charset=UTF-8","x-ghost-version":"2.9","app-pragma":"no-cache","x-requested-with":"XMLHttpRequest"},"body":{},"query":{"include":"roles"}},"res":{"_headers":{"x-powered-by":"Express","cache-control":"no-cache, private, no-store, must-revalidate, max-stale=0, post-check=0, pre-check=0","content-type":"application/json; charset=utf-8","content-length":"73","etag":"W/\"49-Htz2g1hjAoUvJ874WUMiMG0d3Z0\"","vary":"Accept-Encoding"},"statusCode":401,"responseTime":"16ms"},"err":{"id":"4cfdcd20-0d7f-11e9-b0b9-a55cf68e3775","domain":"https://blog.coreyjmahler.com","code":null,"name":"UnauthorizedError","statusCode":401,"level":"normal","message":"Access denied.","context":"empty","help":"empty","stack":"UnauthorizedError: Access denied.\n    at new UnauthorizedError (/var/www/ghost/versions/2.9.1/node_modules/ghost-ignition/lib/errors/index.js:101:23)\n    at ensureUser (/var/www/ghost/versions/2.9.1/core/server/services/auth/session/middleware.js:98:10)\n    at Layer.handle [as handle_request] (/var/www/ghost/versions/2.9.1/node_modules/express/lib/router/layer.js:95:5)\n    at next (/var/www/ghost/versions/2.9.1/node_modules/express/lib/router/route.js:137:13)\n    at getUser (/var/www/ghost/versions/2.9.1/core/server/services/auth/session/middleware.js:82:16)\n    at Layer.handle [as handle_request] (/var/www/ghost/versions/2.9.1/node_modules/express/lib/router/layer.js:95:5)\n    at next (/var/www/ghost/versions/2.9.1/node_modules/express/lib/router/route.js:137:13)\n    at cookieCsrfProtection (/var/www/ghost/versions/2.9.1/core/server/services/auth/session/middleware.js:107:16)\n    at Layer.handle [as handle_request] (/var/www/ghost/versions/2.9.1/node_modules/express/lib/router/layer.js:95:5)\n    at next (/var/www/ghost/versions/2.9.1/node_modules/express/lib/router/route.js:137:13)\n    at session (/var/www/ghost/versions/2.9.1/node_modules/express-session/index.js:454:7)\n    at getSession (/var/www/ghost/versions/2.9.1/core/server/services/auth/session/middleware.js:48:12)\n    at Layer.handle [as handle_request] (/var/www/ghost/versions/2.9.1/node_modules/express/lib/router/layer.js:95:5)\n    at next (/var/www/ghost/versions/2.9.1/node_modules/express/lib/router/route.js:137:13)\n    at Route.dispatch (/var/www/ghost/versions/2.9.1/node_modules/express/lib/router/route.js:112:3)\n    at Layer.handle [as handle_request] (/var/www/ghost/versions/2.9.1/node_modules/express/lib/router/layer.js:95:5)\n    at /var/www/ghost/versions/2.9.1/node_modules/express/lib/router/index.js:281:22\n    at param (/var/www/ghost/versions/2.9.1/node_modules/express/lib/router/index.js:354:14)\n    at param (/var/www/ghost/versions/2.9.1/node_modules/express/lib/router/index.js:365:14)\n    at Function.process_params (/var/www/ghost/versions/2.9.1/node_modules/express/lib/router/index.js:410:3)\n    at next (/var/www/ghost/versions/2.9.1/node_modules/express/lib/router/index.js:275:10)\n    at Function.handle (/var/www/ghost/versions/2.9.1/node_modules/express/lib/router/index.js:174:3)\n    at router (/var/www/ghost/versions/2.9.1/node_modules/express/lib/router/index.js:47:12)\n    at Layer.handle [as handle_request] (/var/www/ghost/versions/2.9.1/node_modules/express/lib/router/layer.js:95:5)\n    at trim_prefix (/var/www/ghost/versions/2.9.1/node_modules/express/lib/router/index.js:317:13)\n    at /var/www/ghost/versions/2.9.1/node_modules/express/lib/router/index.js:284:7\n    at Function.process_params (/var/www/ghost/versions/2.9.1/node_modules/express/lib/router/index.js:335:12)\n    at next (/var/www/ghost/versions/2.9.1/node_modules/express/lib/router/index.js:275:10)\n    at cacheControlHeaders (/var/www/ghost/versions/2.9.1/core/server/web/shared/middlewares/cache-control.js:32:9)\n    at Layer.handle [as handle_request] (/var/www/ghost/versions/2.9.1/node_modules/express/lib/router/layer.js:95:5)\n    at trim_prefix (/var/www/ghost/versions/2.9.1/node_modules/express/lib/router/index.js:317:13)\n    at /var/www/ghost/versions/2.9.1/node_modules/express/lib/router/index.js:284:7\n    at Function.process_params (/var/www/ghost/versions/2.9.1/node_modules/express/lib/router/index.js:335:12)\n    at next (/var/www/ghost/versions/2.9.1/node_modules/express/lib/router/index.js:275:10)\n    at checkVersionMatch (/var/www/ghost/versions/2.9.1/core/server/web/shared/middlewares/api/version-match.js:23:5)\n    at Layer.handle [as handle_request] (/var/www/ghost/versions/2.9.1/node_modules/express/lib/router/layer.js:95:5)\n    at trim_prefix (/var/www/ghost/versions/2.9.1/node_modules/express/lib/router/index.js:317:13)\n    at /var/www/ghost/versions/2.9.1/node_modules/express/lib/router/index.js:284:7\n    at Function.process_params (/var/www/ghost/versions/2.9.1/node_modules/express/lib/router/index.js:335:12)\n    at next (/var/www/ghost/versions/2.9.1/node_modules/express/lib/router/index.js:275:10)\n    at maintenance (/var/www/ghost/versions/2.9.1/core/server/web/shared/middlewares/maintenance.js:18:5)\n    at Layer.handle [as handle_request] (/var/www/ghost/versions/2.9.1/node_modules/express/lib/router/layer.js:95:5)\n    at trim_prefix (/var/www/ghost/versions/2.9.1/node_modules/express/lib/router/index.js:317:13)\n    at /var/www/ghost/versions/2.9.1/node_modules/express/lib/router/index.js:284:7\n    at Function.process_params (/var/www/ghost/versions/2.9.1/node_modules/express/lib/router/index.js:335:12)\n    at next (/var/www/ghost/versions/2.9.1/node_modules/express/lib/router/index.js:275:10)","errorDetails":"empty"},"msg":"Access denied.","time":"2019-01-01T04:40:01.535Z","v":0}

(IP addresses masked to A.B.C.D.)

  • What’s your URL? https://blog.coreyjmahler.com/
  • What version of Ghost are you using? Current
  • What configuration? Ubuntu 18.04 and nginx
  • What browser? Firefox and Safari
  • What errors or information do you see in the console? None in the Discourse logs; one in Safari, supra; and one in the Ghost logs, supra.
  • What steps could someone else take to reproduce the issue you’re having? See above.
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Managed to get this solved over on the Ghost forum. The issue was that the code section was commented out with {{!-- and --}} (which BBEdit did not highlight as it was treating the file as HTML).

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