Recording shows nginx 403 error

OpenVidu v2 Issues with deployment
1

I’m getting a strange issue with recording mp4 files, i have just moved servers and the config isn’t really any different but when the recording is saved on the server all i see is an nginx message saying 403 as per screenshot below.

This is directly opening the saved mp4

image

UPDATE

It seems when i set ALLOWED_ACCESS_TO_DASHBOARD= to prevent dashboard access to anyone other than people connected to our vpn the recording doesn’t work! Why would blocking the dashboard cause a 403 image to be in the video?

2

Because the dashboard itself is used as a frontend to record the sessions.

You have two possible solutions:

  1. You need to add the public IP of the server to ALLOWED_ACCESS_TO_DASHBOARD.

  2. Another possibility is to use OPENVIDU_RECORDING_COMPOSED_URL to:

    OpenVidu CE

    OPENVIDU_RECORDING_COMPOSED_URL=https://localhost/dashboard/

    OpenVidu PRO

    OPENVIDU_RECORDING_COMPOSED_URL=https://localhost/inspector/

Regards.

3

Ok I didn’t expect the dashboard to be used for that.

So is the CE version the free one I’m currently using? I’ll be upgrading to pro at some point.

One thing that I don’t like as well is, if someone accesses the vidu server url in the browser it shows an open vidu screen, can I get rid of that? I don’t want any access to the public to anything like that, maybe have it redirect to the website instead?

UPDATE

Ok so i tried adding this OPENVIDU_RECORDING_COMPOSED_URL=https://localhost/dashboard/ to .env and it didn’t work!

I have also tried adding the server public ip to the allowed list and that also doesn’t work, i am using cloudflare would that cause an issue?

UPDATE 2

So i ran a curl request to the dashboard on the server and this is what i get:

curl https://localhost/dashboard

curl: (60) SSL: no alternative certificate subject name matches target host name ‘localhost’

More details here: curl - SSL CA Certificates

curl failed to verify the legitimacy of the server and therefore could not

establish a secure connection to it. To learn more about this situation and

how to fix it, please visit the web page mentioned above.

UPDATE 3

Ok so i added all of cloudflare’s ip ranges and that seemed to work!