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  • User documentation for NodeBB

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    Jay MoonahJ

    One of the first important things to do after setting up NodeBB is to set up an emailer plugin. While NodeBB does include a local emailer, if your forum is particularly active we recommend using an third-party emailer such as SendGrid which provides better deliverability for sites that send a high volume of email. Setting up SendGrid in NodeBB is very easy.

    Open the administrative dashboard using the 'gear' icon on your forum. Open the Extend > Plugins menu, and select the Find Plugins tab. Use the search on the right. Type 'SendGrid' and the plugin should appear -- select Install when you see it. From Installed tab on the Plugins menu, search again for 'SendGrid' and select Activate. Activating the plugin will require a restart of your forum. To restart, select the Dashboard menu and press the Restart button to the right. After NodeBB restarts, the SendGrid plugin will be active.

    After you restart, there should be a item called Emailer (SendGrid) under the Plugins menu -- if you don't see this right away, try refreshing your browser.

    Sign up to SendGrid

    Go to the SendGrid website, open the pricing page and scroll to the bottom. Click on the link and create your free account. Once you've confirmed your SendGrid account via email, you should be able to login to the SendGrid website. On the left side of your SendGrid dashboard, open Settings and click on API Keys. Click the button in the top right to create a new key. Make sure that the key has Full Access for Send Mail and Alerts.  When you are done, the new key to your clipboard.

    Now, return to the SendGrid menu on your NodeBB admin panel. Paste the API key into the field, and save your changes. Now go back to the Dashboard to restart your forum one more time.

    SendGrid should now be working for your forum.

    YouTube Setting up SendGrid mailer for NodeBB

  • NodeBB guides, how-to's and general tips and tricks

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    barisB

    Quick start plugin has an example on how to add a new api route https://github.com/NodeBB/nodebb-plugin-quickstart/blob/master/library.js#L40-L76.

    The hooks that are fired client side are for client side code in plugins. If you want to pass data from the client to the server you have two options.

    Create an api route like in quick start plugin Create a new socket event listener on the server side and use socket.emit() client side. Example here

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    eeeeeE

    I think you answered my point, by agreeing there are issues.
    I didn't even attempt to deploy nodebb, I had problems with much smaller projects!
    Nextjs routing was going through a change of design at the time, so perhaps that is less confusing now, but there were multiple other headaches. I would get build errors and issues with package management.

  • Vamsi KrishnaV

    Understanding the dashboard in ACP

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    Vamsi KrishnaV

    Hi everyone,
    I have a few questions regarding the dashboards in the admin control panel

    Does the unique visitors count include unregistered users too? Where can I see the average session duration of the users on a day-by-day basis? Where can I see the breakdown of users who are logging in atleast once a day/week/month (DAU, WAU, MAU)

    Thanks in advance

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    403 forbidden - Permission denied

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    julianJ

    @worp1900 At least 1.3.13 is required due to this changelog: http://nginx.org/en/CHANGES

    The websocket changes in there are required. Not quite sure why your install didn't with with 1.11, though NodeBB has worked fine with Nginx ever since then with no problems 😸

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    Notification Only? WHY?

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    barisB

    @jimmyc2018 You can manually change the code to set it to notification & email. Change it here and here from notification to notificationemail.

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    Multiple NodeBB in cluster

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    PitaJP

    Oh sorry are you talking about running a cluster of processes for a single forum, or running multiple forums on the same server?

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    Votes not being calculated

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    barisB

    Not without a plugin. You would have to increase the vote count on every upvote/downvote that happens in the topic, instead of just the main post. And gotto write a script to run through all posts and update the values.

  • Tommy DonbavandT

    Timeline for Nodebb?

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    Tommy DonbavandT

    I am planning to start a new forum but I don't like using its traditional layout that I want to use a layout like social networks out there (Facebook, Linkedin..) I found this forum https://smartphones.best/ matched my requirement to have a timeline on my forum homepage. I prefer its layout because comments can display below each topic.

    The problem is my friend recommended me to use nodebb but I searched and not found any addons to do that. Does anyone knows how to create timeline for a forum? Please suggest me!

    Thanks in advance.

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    Issue naming the root of NodeBB install

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    @jimmyc2018 said in Issue naming the root of NodeBB install:

    @pitaj I did, I could see it live at http://myipaddress:4567

    Is your domain set to resolve to that IP address?

    Your nginx config also looks like it is missing a lot. The documentation has a lot of info. A full example block with all the recommendations lives here: https://docs.nodebb.org/configuring/scaling/ but at a minimum you should follow the guide on this page: https://docs.nodebb.org/configuring/proxies/nginx/

  • HARIOM VASHISTHH

    Free HTTPS for NodeBB

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    @jimmyc2018 said in Free HTTPS for NodeBB:

    I just setup "Let's Encrypt" yesterday but today noticed "Secure" doesn't always show up beside my URL as I'm browsing back and forth through my NodeBB forum.

    There's even one forum Topic/Page that always shows up without the "Secure" sign. Even if I repeatedly refresh the page and clear my browser out and come back to it.

    Has anyone else experienced this?

    On top of changing the URL to HTTPS, you should setup forwarding so people always hit your https page.

    With CloudFlare I have these setup:
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    For good measure, I have the following in my nginx config too:

    server { listen 80; server_name gamingexodus.com www.gamingexodus.com; return 301 https://$host$request_uri; }

    Though looking at my nginx block now, I probably need to say return 301 https://gamingexodus.com$request_uri; to ensure www is not used.

  • jaybone26J

    [UPDATE] Moving from localhost to ip.

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    jaybone26J

    Hello. I just installed Nodebb on to my server and I'm not sure which conf files I need to edit so i can have outside connections come in. right now socket io and restricted to localhost as well as Nodebb. I am able to navigate the site but not able to save and changes i made. mongod database is connected to Nodebb.

    Any help would be amazing. Thank you

    UPDATE

    Just letting yall know that i have figured it out and got my site up and running.

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    NodeBB and IIS as reverse-proxy

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    barisB

    Hi guys, sorry I can't be of any help. I don't have any experience with IIS, but you seem to be on the right track, the client's IP should be forwarded to the node backend by your webserver.

  • HARIOM VASHISTHH

    production setup with nginx

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    HARIOM VASHISTHH

    Just a moment...

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  • HARIOM VASHISTHH

    NodeJS, MongoDB, PM2 and NgInx installation for NodeBB

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    HARIOM VASHISTHH

    All in One, Easy to understand – production ready guide for beginners and professionals.

    NodeJS, MongoDB, PM2 and NGINX installation and configuration for production server — ubuntu 16.04

    https://blog.cloudboost.io/nodejs-mongodb-pm2-and-nginx-installation-and-configuration-for-production-server-ubuntu-16-04-e2b65d82f5df

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    External link in category not working

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    @radek
    nvm fixed

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    NodeBB Upgrade caused issues

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    I've found the cause, the Wordpress SSO plugin was causing issues.

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    Disable New Sign Ups?

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    PitaJP

    You can disable local registration in the ACP. Relevant thread here: https://community.nodebb.org/topic/11810/how-do-you-disable-default-login-registration-and-enable-on-login-registration-through-sso-plugin

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    "Looks like your connection to NodeBB was lost, please wait while we try to reconnect."

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    @taloche Thank you! I will try this out.

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    How do you disable default login/registration and enable on login/registration through SSO plugin.

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    PitaJP

    You should be able to disable registration in the ACP. That will still allow SSO.

    Edit: previous discussion

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    Hi everyone, Quick question, is it possible to disable the registration form, in order to allow registration by SSO only? Thanks for your help Christian

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    Problem with accents in Composer

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    Thanks @PitaJ. Your reply helped me. My problem was corrected with nodebb-plugin-markdown plugin activation and nodebb-plugin-emoji plugin desactivation. Problem solved. Thanks again.

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    @julian Thank you!

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    Mass delete of one user's messages by administrator.

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    Hi, does it possible to delete selected messages posted by custom user? I saw - it possible to delete multiple post in selected topic, and in users profile there is no checkboxes for delete what I want - only view of user posts or topics. How can I do it softly - I don't want to delete user with content. I can do it only by DB query? thanks in advance!

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