<![CDATA[Static Images Randomly Disappear]]>I have a very odd problem with my new NodeBB forum.
All static images (such as profile pictures and the favicon) will randomly disappear from time-to-time, only for all of it to come back a few hours or days later.
Nobody in this first image has a profile picture. This is from the first disappearance of all static images. Manually uploading new profile pictures or a new favicon asset simply does nothing and keeps the default NodeBB placeholders.
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This second image is from when it all came back a few days later (including the favicon).
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The logs in the admin dashboard reveal nothing other than an error related to the Harmony theme (which I am not using).
Any ideas for what may be the cause as well as the solution? All feedback is greatly appreciated, because I'm at a loss.

Thanks in advance.

]]>https://community.darkscribes.com/topic/d7a74e78-b494-4023-98aa-63a38aa5da51/static-images-randomly-disappearRSS for NodeTue, 11 Aug 2026 10:08:28 GMTSun, 13 Jul 2025 23:01:05 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to Static Images Randomly Disappear on Mon, 14 Jul 2025 14:03:11 GMT]]>@julian I'm using Cloudflare's free tier

]]>https://community.darkscribes.com/post/https://community.nodebb.org/post/105170https://community.darkscribes.com/post/https://community.nodebb.org/post/105170Mon, 14 Jul 2025 14:03:11 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Static Images Randomly Disappear on Mon, 14 Jul 2025 12:52:02 GMT]]>@Onii what are you using as your reverse proxy?

]]>https://community.darkscribes.com/post/https://community.nodebb.org/post/105169https://community.darkscribes.com/post/https://community.nodebb.org/post/105169Mon, 14 Jul 2025 12:52:02 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Static Images Randomly Disappear on Mon, 14 Jul 2025 12:02:28 GMT]]>@julian Doesn't look like I can.
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Chrome is reporting a load error, and going to the direct image URL just shows text saying "Not found."
Any way I can debug this further? Permissions for the forum aren't being changed by anyone each time the assets become available/unavailable.

Thanks.

]]>https://community.darkscribes.com/post/https://community.nodebb.org/post/105167https://community.darkscribes.com/post/https://community.nodebb.org/post/105167Mon, 14 Jul 2025 12:02:28 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Static Images Randomly Disappear on Mon, 14 Jul 2025 11:42:59 GMT]]>@Onii I'm not sure about Docker because that is something I am less familiar with, but the same issue remains, that the files seem to be inaccessible. When the images go away, are you able to directly access them?

]]>https://community.darkscribes.com/post/https://community.nodebb.org/post/105166https://community.darkscribes.com/post/https://community.nodebb.org/post/105166Mon, 14 Jul 2025 11:42:59 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Static Images Randomly Disappear on Mon, 14 Jul 2025 04:36:40 GMT]]>@julian I'm not using a separate volume, no.
It's all contained within a single Ubuntu server.
I have my forum running through a Docker instance, however. I'm not very experienced with Linux, but I doubt that being run in a Docker instance would be the cause for any problems like what I'm experiencing.

]]>https://community.darkscribes.com/post/https://community.nodebb.org/post/105165https://community.darkscribes.com/post/https://community.nodebb.org/post/105165Mon, 14 Jul 2025 04:36:40 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Static Images Randomly Disappear on Mon, 14 Jul 2025 00:49:39 GMT]]>@Onii are you using a separate volume for your uploaded images?

If you are, then check that you can still access that volume. It sounds like there are some intermittent access issues.

]]>https://community.darkscribes.com/post/https://community.nodebb.org/post/105163https://community.darkscribes.com/post/https://community.nodebb.org/post/105163Mon, 14 Jul 2025 00:49:39 GMT