fix: #8474

make isPrimary and isCluster always booleans
they were strings when using ./nodebb start and boolean if they were in config.json and started with node app.js

src/database/postgres.js

@@ -308,7 +308,7 @@ postgresModule.createSessionStore = function (options, callback) {
 		const store = new sessionStore({
 			pool: db,
 			ttl: meta.getSessionTTLSeconds(),
-			pruneSessionInterval: nconf.get('isPrimary') === 'true' ? 60 : false,
+			pruneSessionInterval: nconf.get('isPrimary') ? 60 : false,
 		});
 		callback(null, store);
 	}
@@ -317,7 +317,7 @@ postgresModule.createSessionStore = function (options, callback) {
 		if (err) {
 			return callback(err);
 		}
-		if (nconf.get('isPrimary') !== 'true') {
+		if (!nconf.get('isPrimary')) {
 			return done(db);
 		}
 		db.query(`

src/meta/index.js

@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ Meta.userOrGroupExists = async function (slug) {
 	return userExists || groupExists;
 };
 
-if (nconf.get('isPrimary') === 'true') {
+if (nconf.get('isPrimary')) {
 	pubsub.on('meta:restart', function (data) {
 		if (data.hostname !== os.hostname()) {
 			restart();

src/plugins/index.js

@@ -116,7 +116,7 @@ Plugins.reload = async function () {
 	}
 
 	// If some plugins are incompatible, throw the warning here
-	if (Plugins.versionWarning.length && nconf.get('isPrimary') === 'true') {
+	if (Plugins.versionWarning.length && nconf.get('isPrimary')) {
 		console.log('');
 		winston.warn('[plugins/load] The following plugins may not be compatible with your version of NodeBB. This may cause unintended behaviour or crashing. In the event of an unresponsive NodeBB caused by this plugin, run `./nodebb reset -p PLUGINNAME` to disable it.');
 		for (var x = 0, numPlugins = Plugins.versionWarning.length; x < numPlugins; x += 1) {

src/plugins/install.js

@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ if (process.platform === 'win32') {
 }
 
 module.exports = function (Plugins) {
-	if (nconf.get('isPrimary') === 'true') {
+	if (nconf.get('isPrimary')) {
 		pubsub.on('plugins:toggleInstall', function (data) {
 			if (data.hostname !== os.hostname()) {
 				toggleInstall(data.id, data.version);

src/prestart.js

@@ -54,14 +54,22 @@ function loadConfig(configFile) {
 		upload_path: 'public/uploads',
 		views_dir: path.join(dirname, 'build/public/templates'),
 		version: pkg.version,
+		isCluster: false,
+		isPrimary: true,
+		jobsDisabled: false,
 	});
 
-	if (!nconf.get('isCluster')) {
-		nconf.set('isPrimary', 'true');
-		nconf.set('isCluster', 'false');
+	// Explicitly cast as Bool, loader.js passes in isCluster as string 'true'/'false'
+	var castAsBool = ['isCluster', 'isPrimary', 'jobsDisabled'];
+	nconf.stores.env.readOnly = false;
+	castAsBool.forEach(function (prop) {
+		var value = nconf.get(prop);
+		if (value !== undefined) {
+			nconf.set(prop, typeof value === 'boolean' ? value : String(value).toLowerCase() === 'true');
 		}
-	var isPrimary = nconf.get('isPrimary');
-	nconf.set('isPrimary', isPrimary === undefined ? 'true' : isPrimary);
+	});
+	nconf.stores.env.readOnly = true;
+	nconf.set('runJobs', nconf.get('isPrimary') && !nconf.get('jobsDisabled'));
 
 	// Ensure themes_path is a full filepath
 	nconf.set('themes_path', path.resolve(dirname, nconf.get('themes_path')));
@@ -71,18 +79,6 @@ function loadConfig(configFile) {
 	nconf.set('upload_path', path.resolve(nconf.get('base_dir'), nconf.get('upload_path')));
 	nconf.set('upload_url', '/assets/uploads');
 
-	// Explicitly cast 'jobsDisabled' as Bool
-	var castAsBool = ['jobsDisabled'];
-	nconf.stores.env.readOnly = false;
-	castAsBool.forEach(function (prop) {
-		var value = nconf.get(prop);
-		if (value) {
-			nconf.set(prop, typeof value === 'boolean' ? value : String(value).toLowerCase() === 'true');
-		}
-	});
-	nconf.stores.env.readOnly = true;
-
-	nconf.set('runJobs', nconf.get('isPrimary') === 'true' && !nconf.get('jobsDisabled'));
 
 	// nconf defaults, if not set in config
 	if (!nconf.get('sessionKey')) {

src/pubsub.js

@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ function get() {
 
 	var pubsub;
 
-	if (nconf.get('isCluster') === 'false') {
+	if (!nconf.get('isCluster')) {
 		if (noCluster) {
 			real = noCluster;
 			return real;

src/socket.io/index.js

@@ -27,6 +27,7 @@ Sockets.init = function (server) {
 		path: nconf.get('relative_path') + '/socket.io',
 	});
 
+	if (nconf.get('isCluster')) {
 		if (nconf.get('singleHostCluster')) {
 			io.adapter(require('./single-host-cluster'));
 		} else if (nconf.get('redis')) {
@@ -34,6 +35,7 @@ Sockets.init = function (server) {
 		} else {
 			io.adapter(db.socketAdapter());
 		}
+	}
 
 	io.use(socketioWildcard);
 	io.use(authorize);

src/start.js

@@ -79,7 +79,7 @@ async function runUpgrades() {
 }
 
 function printStartupInfo() {
-	if (nconf.get('isPrimary') === 'true') {
+	if (nconf.get('isPrimary')) {
 		winston.info('Initializing NodeBB v%s %s', nconf.get('version'), nconf.get('url'));
 
 		const host = nconf.get(nconf.get('database') + ':host');

test/mocks/databasemock.js

@@ -39,9 +39,9 @@ const urlObject = url.parse(nconf.get('url'));
 const relativePath = urlObject.pathname !== '/' ? urlObject.pathname : '';
 nconf.set('relative_path', relativePath);
 
-if (!nconf.get('isCluster')) {
-	nconf.set('isPrimary', 'true');
-	nconf.set('isCluster', 'true');
+if (nconf.get('isCluster') === undefined) {
+	nconf.set('isPrimary', true);
+	nconf.set('isCluster', true);
 }
 
 const dbType = nconf.get('database');

test/pubsub.js

@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ var pubsub = require('../src/pubsub');
 
 describe('pubsub', function () {
 	it('should use the plain event emitter', function (done) {
-		nconf.set('isCluster', 'false');
+		nconf.set('isCluster', false);
 		pubsub.reset();
 		pubsub.on('testEvent', function (message) {
 			assert.equal(message.foo, 1);
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ describe('pubsub', function () {
 	it('should use same event emitter', function (done) {
 		pubsub.on('dummyEvent', function (message) {
 			assert.equal(message.foo, 2);
-			nconf.set('isCluster', 'true');
+			nconf.set('isCluster', true);
 			pubsub.removeAllListeners('dummyEvent');
 			pubsub.reset();
 			done();