Constant "connection lost" error

I had updated Duplicati to the most recent stable release then noticed that I was accidentally backing up the /var/lib folder, which is about 6 gigs due to docker, disabled that folder and, to stop recieving bandwidth emails from Backblaze whenever Duplicati makes a backup, tried deleting all the previous backups since I didn’t need them anyways. I attempted purging them from inside Duplicati, but that just maxed out the Backblaze bandwidth for the day, so I purged it on Backblaze’s side and decided to wait a day to have Duplicati recreate the database on it’s end. I lated restarted my server for an Ubuntu update. I didn’t check if Duplicati was working after that as nothing should’ve broken it, but now I can’t access the website. The login page functions fine, but after that nothing else does. I can’t tell what the issue is just from browser logs, but the server is completely ignoring the reconnect requests.

(Ubuntu Server VPS, using the service to start Duplicati. Apache is acting as both a reverse proxy and https support. I am using the default server variables.)

I ended up just reinstalling.

Every single time I try to set the password then restart duplicati this issue occurs again until I delete the duplicati-server.sqlite file to try again. It doesn’t seem to be a character set issue because even passwords without symbols cause this.

Apache wasn’t proxying the websocket properly. Adding ProxyPassMatch "/notifications(.*)" "ws://localhost:8200/notifications$1" to the conf file handling Duplicati fixed it.

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