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  • User documentation for NodeBB

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    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

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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.

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    Invalid csrf token and Failed login attemp

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    N

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

  • AlexGA

    Display of Notifications

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    AlexGA

    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.

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    New AWS EC2 Install - Can't write to database (UI won't save settings or posting new topics)

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    Everything is working now after fixing Problem 4 and configuring from IP to domain name.

    I was attempting to get nodebb working on strictly the IP address. However, I was able to get the domain linked by utilizing Custome Resource Records settings of:

    Name / Type / TTL / DATA @ / A / 1h / xx.xxx.xx.xx * / A / 1h / xx.xxx.xx.xx

    Then, I simply changed my ip address to the domain and now everything is working perfectly. I am not sure why, though.

  • brian4021B

    Making a subdomain with NGINX?

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    brian4021B

    It worked, thanks for the help @PitaJ 🙂

  • udkreddyU

    Privileges for manage and edit categories

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    udkreddyU

    How to set privileges for any role to manage and edit the category

  • Dustin FalgoutD

    This topic is deleted!

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  • S

    users can't signing any more

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    julianJ

    https://github.com/NodeBB/NodeBB/issues/6805 ?

  • L

    Remove Picture icon in composer without removing the Upload Image icon

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    L

    Hi. How would I go about removing the picture icon (red) without removing the upload image icon (blue)? I'm guessing CSS, but what exactly would I target with display: none;?
    0_1538531412973_removeicon.PNG
    Thanks in advance!

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    Announcements

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    PitaJP

    It's just a sidebar widget.

  • brian4021B

    Editing Persona Theme

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    TaLocheT

    In the ACP, just put this in the Custom CSS section

    .categories-title { display: none; }
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    Can't upgrade nodebb problem

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    C

    Problem solved. For this topic to be any usefull at all:

    Run into first problem trying to point and click install 2 nodebb instances( test and the actual) on the same server and obviously, both couldn't listen on the same 4567 port.

    Second, did the second install from the old docs on readthedocs instead of the official ones from nodebb.

    Third, forgot to also add php-fpm directives to my Nginx config. And start Mongodb.

  • J

    Cloudflare, ssl ...

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    J

    Hello,

    I just try to create a new forum for a gaming community... I love nodebb and it is so fast and easy to configure... sadly I‘ve got problems with cloudflare and ssl... as soon as i activate the cloudflare clouds , my nodebb looses connection... i cant imagine that i need to change something in my conf or Nginx configuration? It‘s the same url, same port.. and also the ssl certificate doesn’t work which is free on cloudflare... do i need to change something in my config files or activate my ssl in the Nginx files? I found a cloudflare tutorial here in the forum but it seems to be outdated, because later in the answers everybody wrote something like cloudflare works now with sockets so there’s nothing to change in the config files ... hope somebody knows what I need to do...

  • Sea AnsleyS

    Google SSO error - This site can’t be reached

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    Sea AnsleyS

    OK... removing the port, :4567 - helped with the Google SSO to finally work.

    just "https://digital.nomadic.cloud" - and it's working fine.

    I know that during the set up process (tried 5 times previously), ensuring the port here made a difference with making something else work.

    When I see that bug again, I will post that separately.

    and.. thank you 🙂

  • gh0-0stG

    NPM Audit found 5 vulnerabilities (1 low, 4 moderate)

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    gh0-0stG

    Thank you for your quick answer Julian.

    I hope the update to less v3 can be so fast ☺
    At least thank you for your explanation, I'm on the lookout to be able to use nodebb

  • bonaccorsopB

    csrf token (I tried everything to fix it) [SOLVED]

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    bonaccorsopB

    Ok, I solved it by binding a different port from 80 in my config.json:

    { "url": "https://dev.myforum.com", "port": 4567, "database": "mongo", ... }

    So finally NodeBB set express.sid cookie 🙂

  • L

    Category Specific Permissions?

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    L

    Lol thanks, didn't see that!

  • D

    Few questions about NodeBB

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    D

    @julian Clear enough, thank you so much.

  • asamolionA

    Render failed for template: templateFunction is not a function

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    PitaJP

    @asamolion Here are the changes:

    Link Preview Image Precompile all templates by pitaj · Pull Request #6649 · NodeBB/NodeBB

    Benchpress compilation is 33x faster now Native module with JS fallback and pre-built binaries Dev template build is <1sec now Minified template build is ~5sec (uglify accounts for almost all)

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    GitHub (github.com)

    Just use the latest version of benchpressjs (not 1.2.3)

  • tecyT

    DB structure / connection of threads and posts ... post double displayed in different threads

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    julianJ

    Does it work if you don't put it in the error_docs/ subfolder?

  • hawmH

    service-worker request 404 not found

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    hawmH

    The service worker request not found, the url like
    https://www.example.com/service-worker-b3132ce44c958878a3dc19776072ad3861a661ca983e3c8f0269c27a439d47d2.js

    I tried to rebuild and restart nodebb but not fix. It's that a problem?

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