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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. [image: youtubelogo.png] Setting up SendGrid mailer for NodeBB
  • NodeBB guides, how-to's and general tips and tricks

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    not sure the plugin worked for firefox. saw a-z in the sort icon. when i used it, i expected the topics in the category would be sorted a-z. they werent
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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.
  • 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?
  • Problem when installing

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    SrPeterS
    Linux version: Red Hat 4.8.5-16 Hello! I am actually trying to install NodeBB in a shared hosting, so im using the terminal. I have all the files in the correct folder, but when I try to "./nodebb setup" I get this: /usr/bin/env: node: No such file or directory I am assuming bevause i have got Node.js installed, but I cant seem to install it with any commands from https://docs.nodebb.org/installing/os/
  • Excessive Load Warning

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    This is my first day with NodeBB and I don't know how everything works. Since the site is basically new, but testing different bits here and there, I was a little bit worried getting two times an error page with Excessive Load Warning. I have a VPS with one core and 2GB of RAM.
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    Re: nodebb web setup - Configure your database - Digital Ocean
  • Configuration Error: unknown database

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    @baris Thank you so much. Caught in the installing process didn't saw that. Now I have a working NodeBB site. For the first test install used everything as is in the tutorial so database is nodebb.
  • nodebb disconnect

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    radish-angelR
    every other 5 minutes, my browser console many errors, eg: GET http://www.seenewyun.com/socket.io/?EIO=3&transport=polling&t=MOJNhdj 502 (Bad Gateway) ,but nodebb can auto connect.
  • External Links not redirecting properly

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    brian4021B
    Alright, thank you for the quick response
  • HTTPS problem, can anyone give me some advice?

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    PitaJP
    @01 "it won't open" isn't very descriptive. What is it actually doing? Screenshots are very helpful to convey that info. What is your nginx config? Where did you get your https certificates? Have you been following a guide, and if so, which one?
  • how to add HTML content in topics

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    julianJ
    Use of the Markdown composer is optional, and you can save HTML directly into the database, and this is what is used for other composers like Redactor. Still other composers (Quill composer) save content into the database in their own special format. Markdown is not meant to be activated for either of those. Alternatively you could allow HTML in the markdown settings, but I would highly advise you also install sanitizehtml plugin, otherwise anyone can post anything including malicious scripts as a post in your forum!
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    @vfssantos These settings worked for me. { "url": "http://192.168.1.1:4567", "secret": "XXXXXXXXXXXX", "database": "mongo", "mongo": { "host": "127.0.0.1", "port": "27017", "username": "nodebb", "password": "mypassword", "database": "nodebb", "uri": "" }, "port": "4567" } From the Commandline Terminal, first stop and then start nodebb ./nodebb stop ./nodebb start
  • cheap email service for nodebb

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    PitaJP
    You should be able to via the custom SMTP service. It shouldn't even require a plugin.
  • Redactor client does not display image upload errors from server

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    Hi Devs, I am running the latest nodebb master, and updated to the latest redactor-composer. I tried to upload a file using redactor, but it did not work, and no error message was posted. With further digging I found that the file was too big (higher than the predefined value in the admin page). Is there a way to catch and display errors from nodebb callback routed into the Redactor plugin? Minor issue, I see that when @media width>1000 Redactor is full page, but the topic title placeholder disappears. Further research identified that the div above it has "display = flex". Unsettling that brings back the title placeholder. Thanks, JJ.
  • Prod vs Dev mode - uglifyjs turned off

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    Thank you so much. You were right on the money as usual!
  • Error: Request Entity Too Large

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    btw the problem with the filesize is also solved
  • Undo reputations

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    julianJ
    You can recalculate the reputations by using this user script. We do not guarantee the effectiveness of our scripts, and you run them at your own risk. Always back up your database before running them. Place this in a new file in your NodeBB's root directory, and then run it with node executable: 'use strict'; /* globals require, console, process */ var nconf = require('nconf'); var async = require('async'); nconf.file({ file: 'config.json', }); var db = require('./src/database'); db.init((err) => { if (err) { console.log('Error:', err.message); process.exit(1); } var batch = require('./src/batch'); var posts = require('./src/posts'); var user = require('./src/user'); batch.processSortedSet('users:joindate', (uids, next) => { async.each(uids, (uid, next) => { // Find all posts by this uid and tally up their reputation async.waterfall([ async.apply(db.getSortedSetRange, 'uid:' + uid + ':posts', 0, -1), (pids, next) => { async.map(pids, (pid, next) => { posts.getPostFields(pid, ['upvotes', 'downvotes'], next); }, next); }, (data, next) => { // Collate result set let reputation = 0; if (data.length) { data.forEach((set) => { reputation += parseInt(set.upvotes, 10) || 0; reputation -= parseInt(set.downvotes, 10) || 0; }); } process.nextTick(next, null, { uid: uid, rep: reputation, }); }, (data, next) => { console.log('Resetting reputation for uid', data.uid, 'to', data.rep); user.setUserField('user:' + data.uid, 'reputation', parseInt(data.rep, 10) || 0, next); }, ], next); }, next); }, {}, function (err) { if (err) { console.log('Error:', err.message); } process.exit(0); }); });
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  • [SOLVED] Edit profile; losed fields

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    ramon lopezR
    @baris thank you
  • Image Uploads

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    ramon lopezR
    Same problem here: https://community.nodebb.org/topic/12785/edit-profile-image-button-didnt-appears
  • what do I have to write in these fields

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    hi guys, I want to know how do I have to complete these: RL used to access this NodeBB (http://localhost:4567) : ¿my domain or my droplet ip? ¿which port? Host IP or address of your MongoDB instance (127.0.0.1): ¿my droplet ip? Host port of your MongoDB instance (27017): ¿and here? ps. I have an ubuntu droplet in digital ocean + domain.
  • Widgets not getting container html applied

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    barisB
    It was a bug that was fixed here I believe https://github.com/NodeBB/NodeBB/commit/ea2bd33bfa10564591f2d8ca69bd5cd7d252ee1d, it will be released in 1.10.2