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@baris awesome!
thx

@pottla woah - 60hrs is extreme...
I migrated from an old myBB forum to NOdeBB, and it took waaaaaaay less than that.

It was less than simple too, I had to set up a droplet on Digital Ocean as an intermediate forum so I could migrate my data across.

MyBB (mySQL database on my VPS) -> Mongo(Digital Ocean)
Mongo -> Postgres(Digital Ocean)

then import from DigitalOcean to my own VPS
I also needed to install postgres etc on my own server, and I themed my forum.

support.sweetpproductions.com

Yes. I don't think there is a guide right now, but it shouldn't be too hard. You just need to select postgresql in the setup step.

Oh sorry I wasn't paying attention. Those two aren't in any templates afaik. They're added by the widget system.

It looks like you've misunderstood the purpose of this forum. This is the community forum for the Node.js-based forum software known as NodeBB.

For general Node help, you might want to try StackOverflow, SpeakJS on Discord, or /r/node and /r/javascript on Reddit.

Left Y axis is page views (gray), right Y axis is unique visitors (blue). A page view is just what it say, a visitor looking at a page. A unique visitor is identified by IP. Thus it is a unique IP visiting your site. They are summarized over a day in the graph. Thus every value is per day.

The total you see below is the sum of all page views over the last seven days.

Here it is.
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yup that worked!

super easy fix, many thanks
👍

Looks like NodeBB is already running on port 4567 and 4568 try stopping it with either ./nodebb stop or killing those procs. Then start again.

@ckubs Excellent, I'm glad that went well!

Hmm looks like sharp isn't installing correctly. If you wanna try out some stuff, here's this:

https://sharp.dimens.io/en/stable/install/

It is possible on the group page itself, for example if you search users on https://community.nodebb.org/groups/gamers it will only search that groups members. The front end doesn't have that option on /search though.

Don't change loader.js. Change your config.json.

You'll want to build an exporter that will work with nodebb-plugin-import: https://github.com/akhoury/nodebb-plugin-import/blob/master/write-my-own-exporter.md

That was just what I was looking for. Thanks!

thank you

I've recently been trying to setup NodeBB on my server, but whenever i try to login or register the POST request returns a 403 forbidden response and NodeBB logs an "invalid csrf token" error.

The following software packages are used:

NodeBB 1.10.1 MongoDB 3.2.11 Node.js 8.11.4 Debian 9.3

NodeBB itself is a subfolder installation in https://endless-endeavors.theswc.net/forum/. The node server is multi-tenant and works with express.js as a router/reverse proxy. All external http requests are redirected to https, but requests to the nodeBB server are proxied internally over http. Essentially this is the flow for an incoming forum request:

main server app -> enforce https, direct request to endless-endeavors.theswc.net directory host/domain app -> Check url, if /forum, proxy to port 4567 over http (or wss if websocket) let nodeBB do its thing.

I've been googling and have found quite a few threads, but none of the suggested solutions have worked. things i have tried so far:

Check url in config.json: 'https://endless-endeavors.theswc.net/forum/' Make sure cookieDomain is '' in MongoDB Including header 'X-Forwarded-Proto: https' Including header 'X-Forwarded-SSL: on' Including header 'X-Url-Scheme: https'
I've also found that in the GET request for the login form, no X-CSRF-Token header is received. The form itself however is populated with a token.

Lastly, here are the relevant code snippets:

main server app

#!/usr/bin/env nodejs // filename: app.js const http = require('http'); const https = require('https'); const fs = require('fs'); const express = require('express'); const vhost = require('vhost'); const app = express(); const sslOptions = { cert: fs.readFileSync('./.sslcert/fullchain.pem'), key: fs.readFileSync('./.sslcert/privkey.pem') } http.createServer(function(req, res) { res.writeHead(301, { "Location": "https://" + req.headers['host'] + req.url }); res.end(); }).listen(80); app .use(require('helmet')()) .use(express.static(__dirname + '/static')) <redacted, other domains> .use(vhost('endless-endeavors.theswc.net', require('./apps/EndlessEndeavors').app)) app.get('/', function (req, res) { res.writeHead(200, {'Content-Type': 'text/plain'}); res.end(''); });

domain app

const express = require('express') const app = express(); const http = require('http'); const httpProxy = require('http-proxy'); const proxy = httpProxy.createProxyServer(); app.use('/static',express.static(__dirname + '/static')); app.use('', express.static(__dirname + '/dist/EndlessEndeavors')); app.all('/forum[/]+*', function(req, res){ if(req.url.substr(0,18).indexOf('socket.io')>-1){ console.log('got socket request'); proxy.web(req, res, {target: 'wss://endless-endeavors.theswc.net:4567', ws: true}); } else { res.header('X-Forwarded-Proto','https'); res.header('X-Forwarded-Ssl','on'); res.header('X-Url-Scheme','https'); res.header('Access-Control-Allow-Origin','endless-endeavors.theswc.net'); proxy.web(req, res, {target: 'http://endless-endeavors.theswc.net:4567'}); } }); app.all('/forum$', function(req, res) { res.writeHead(301, { "Location": "https://" + req.headers['host'] + '/forum/' }); res.end(); } ) exports.app = app;

nodeBB config.json

{ "url": "https://endless-endeavors.theswc.net/forum/", "secret": "<redacted>", "database": "mongo", "port": 4567, "mongo": { "host": "127.0.0.1", "port": 27017, "username": "<redacted>", "password": "<redacted>", "database": "<redacted>", "uri": "<redacted>" } }

Hopefully this is enough into to help find the cause of the invalid csrf token issue... i have no idea what else could be wrong at this point.

Yes, it is same. But error is still there.

I've got two questions concerning notifications.

Is it possible to display more notifications in the "notification window"? This seems to be limited to 15? I know that I can see all on the /notifications page but it would be easier to just see more in the notification window.

Is there any possibility to display the category of the topics in the notification (either notification window or notification page)? Or should I put a topic for that in feature requests?

Thanks for your help.