Strapi responds with 401 after some time of inactivity, works after reload

Question

After some time of inactivity, api calls return a 401, when reloading (once or twice) it works.

I call the api using useStrapi4() and find(). The Public role has permission to find and findOne of the collection type I am querying.

The request:

...
mounted() {
  this.$strapi.find("home").then(({data}) => {
    this.page = data;
  });
},
...

The response:

{
  "data": null,
  "error": {
    "status": 401,
    "name": "UnauthorizedError",
    "message": "Missing or invalid credentials",
    "details": {}
  }
}

I have a hunch that it may have something to do the the JWT token, but I don't know how to debug it.

• Strapi 4.1.9
• Nuxt 3.0.0-rc.5
• DB PostgreSQL
• Hosted on Railway.app

Answer 1

By default, Strapi kills the server when there are fewer than two connections for some time. So setting pool to 0 makes sure that the server is up even if there are zero connections.

This worked for me:

// config/database.js

module.exports = ({ env }) => ({
  connection: {
    // other config …
    pool: {
      min: 0, // ← this line is important
    }
  },
});