Skip to content

Technical Support

Need help with installing or configuring NodeBB? Look here.

4.7k Topics 26.1k Posts

Subcategories


  • User documentation for NodeBB

    44 Topics
    44 Posts
    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

    82 Topics
    597 Posts
    phenomlabP

    @frontendjulien Always happy to help.

  • 25 Topics
    196 Posts
    phenomlabP

    @baris updated to 3.7.2 and now just waiting for the plugin to be updated.

  • 0 Votes
    2 Posts
    41 Views
    phenomlabP

    @ursyaathi You'd be better placed using SSO for that - see https://community.nodebb.org/topic/17484/a-more-standardised-sso-implementation/2?_=1709300209014

  • Navigating to specific post

    Solved
    3
    0 Votes
    3 Posts
    78 Views
    R

    Thanks!, I was able to debug the issue.

  • Targeted Multi-User tagging

    Unsolved
    14
    0 Votes
    14 Posts
    405 Views
    crazycellsC

    @baris i know it is nothing urgent, but looking forward to having this addition 😄

    Link Preview Image Targeted Multi-User tagging · Issue #244 · julianlam/nodebb-plugin-mentions

    I suggest the usage of @everyone and @here to notify all users in the forum and on the topic respectively... please see this: https://community.nodebb.org/topic/17283/targeted-multi-user-tagging

    favicon

    GitHub (github.com)

  • Hiding a widget in a custom page

    Moved
    8
    0 Votes
    8 Posts
    178 Views
    Rui RamosR

    Thanks @baris that option worked like a charm.

  • Testing nodebb-plugin-sso-google

    Solved
    14
    0 Votes
    14 Posts
    387 Views
    ww9riversW

    @baris Thank you for the quick fix! It works now.

  • Clean Up Popular Topics

    Solved
    5
    2 Votes
    5 Posts
    79 Views
    T

    @baris gotcha, i'll give this one a shot. TY!

  • Updating meta tags in a custom topic template

    Solved
    3
    0 Votes
    3 Posts
    79 Views
    R

    Thanks, that works perfectly

  • NodeBB in inframe throws invalid csrf token

    Moved
    6
    0 Votes
    6 Posts
    552 Views
    E

    were you actually able to solve that? Running into a very related problem here (Nodebb running in an iframe, authenticated through session-sharing plugin. Users are logged in but any interaction results in an 403 / invalid csrf token... I'm running the board on a different domain than the embedding page.

  • 0 Votes
    5 Posts
    144 Views
    C

    @julian Thank you so much for getting back to me, I'll give that a shot!

  • Customize email titles

    Solved
    8
    0 Votes
    8 Posts
    253 Views
    S

    this was fixed in NodeBB v3.6.6
    🙂

  • 3.0.0 Upgrade Support Thread

    39
    1 Votes
    39 Posts
    2k Views
    barisB

    @Sebastián-Cisneros maybe you are missing this file in your composer-default plugin?

    It was added in nodebb 3.4.0 https://github.com/NodeBB/NodeBB/issues/11949

    So add that file into plugin.json of quill,

    "composer/post-queue.js": "../nodebb-plugin-composer-default/static/lib/composer/post-queue.js",
  • Error getaddrinfo EAI_AGAIN after running out of memory

    Solved
    8
    1 Votes
    8 Posts
    258 Views
    dave1904D

    Fortunately, the problem has been solved. I don't know yet if DigitalOcean has changed anything, but the last thing I did were these prompts for diagnostics:

    ping 8.8.8.8 ping google.com dig google.com dig google.com @1.1.1.1 cat /etc/resolv.conf systemd-resolve --status cat /etc/*release
  • 0 Votes
    2 Posts
    49 Views
    barisB

    Make sure you add jobsDisabled: true to all the machines except one so they don't run jobs.

    That error is usually fine since multiple machines will try to write out their analytics at the same time. The ones failing will retry and it will work on the second try.

  • 0 Votes
    7 Posts
    188 Views
    phenomlabP

    @enzo said in Displaying an image when the topic is shared on social media.:

    (btw, I'm using the S3 plugin, so all images are hosted there, not sure if this affects the behavior)

    This is a good point. Can the S3 bin be viewed publicly? If not, then this may restrict the ability to retrieve the image. On checking the URL from @baris, there is nothing wrong with this

    f38e1a48-de98-4b93-a512-a7c2bb4e138d-image.png

    The same applies to mine

    7415f46b-fa3e-4d71-b835-e5ad2781f888-image.png

    Are you using any browser plugins that could potentially alter the result?

  • Migrating existing forum from / to a subpath

    Solved
    2
    0 Votes
    2 Posts
    71 Views
    barisB

    That should be it, all the paths in template use {config.relative_path} as a prefix so things should work as normal

  • 1 Votes
    34 Posts
    4k Views
    B-738B

    @scottalanmiller

    pkg search mongodb
    mongodb-tools-100.9.4 Tools for MongoDB 4.4.x and up
    mongodb44-4.4.26 Distributed document-oriented "NoSQL" database (4.4.x Branch)
    mongodb50-5.0.23 Distributed document-oriented "NoSQL" database (5.0.x Branch)
    mongodb60-6.0.12 Distributed document-oriented "NoSQL" database (6.0.x Branch)
    mongodb70-7.0.4 Distributed document-oriented "NoSQL" data

  • This topic is deleted!

    Unsolved
    1
    0 Votes
    1 Posts
    5 Views
  • Login failing, "likely due to an expired session."

    Unsolved
    14
    0 Votes
    14 Posts
    376 Views
    M

    Are you able to make the appropriate changes in our docs?

    Yes, can do, I should have something ready to go soon-ish.

    [edit]
    https://github.com/NodeBB/docs/pull/89
    [/edit]

  • Transfer host to new server

    7
    0 Votes
    7 Posts
    617 Views
    catC

    @julian Yeah I was wondering why my default avatars, default headers, etc were broken. Other than that, zipping the nodebb folder on old server, then deploying on Heroku git should just work ☺

  • Modifying manifest.webmanifest

    Solved
    6
    0 Votes
    6 Posts
    114 Views
    barisB

    Oh if you don't have access then build a plugin that serves the file. You can use any url you want that way.

    app.get('/some/custom/url', function (req, res) { res.sendFile('path/to/hello.txt'); });