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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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    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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    Error when I do "npm install"

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    @Bri Yes I did. I follow this guide to install nodebb:

    https://nodebb.readthedocs.io/en/latest/installing/os/centos.html

    I installed node 7.0.0

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    This topic is deleted!

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    Fresh Install Admin Forbidden. Is 32 bit a problem?

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    Pulling from Master helped. However the webpage that starts NodeBB after setting up the DB through the webpage, doesn't restart it now. I had to kill the command line, and manually start nodeBB. But then it works fine. Just an FYI.

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    npm ERR! code ECONNRESET while installing NodeBB

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    @julian said in npm ERR! code ECONNRESET while installing NodeBB:

    @JaredBusch NodeBB should work on Node 4+... just fyi 😄

    Oh, I have a perfectly working instance that I have been using for over a year. the problem is I can not spin up a new instance in a new VM to save my life.

    I know for a fact that it is not this damned hard.

    At this point I can only assume I have missed a step or something.

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    Javascript HTML Widget

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    @julian said in Javascript HTML Widget:

    Nice site, looks a lot like our community forum

    Ha! Thanks! Just need some users now! 🙂

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    NodeBB Migration

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    PitaJP

    @hnahli you'll want to make a database dump, depending on your db it's different just search [your db] dump backup.

    You'll also want to make a backup of your uploaded files if any.

    Here's an okay resource: https://docs.nodebb.org/fr/latest/upgrading/index.html?highlight=backup#back-up-your-data

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    Fresh Install Error - Cannot Login/Register & JS Reference Error

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    @julian said in Fresh Install Error - Cannot Login/Register & JS Reference Error:

    Ah yes I see you did say that earlier. You pulled after you switched to master, too, right?

    I have made a new post with more detail on what I have done to recreate/replicate issues.
    https://community.nodebb.org/topic/9915/new-install-leaves-me-with-session-mismatch-invalid-csrf

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    Category doesnt exist on 1.2.1

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    @pichalite said in Category doesnt exist on 1.2.1:

    @exodo @torn2 v1.x.x branch is now updated with working composer. Pull again and run upgrade.

    Hey I'm having the same problem. I'm up to date on branch v1.x.x but no luck on the error.

    Also composer is on 4.2.13 for my site.

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    SendGrid Emailer - Small Issue

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    @yariplus said in SendGrid Emailer - Small Issue:

    It sounds like you have not set your url in config.json

    That fixed it! Thanks!

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    Recent Cards Plugin - Invalid Date

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    @baris said in Recent Cards Plugin - Invalid Date:

    This is fixed in the latest version of the plugin just waiting for @psychobunny to publish to npm.

    thanks 🙂

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    npm depreciation warnings with current install

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    I am spinning up a new community and found the following warnings during my install.

    Anything I should do about these?

    [root@bna-com ~]# nvm install v7.2.0 ######################################################################## 100.0% Computing checksum with sha256sum Checksums matched! Now using node v7.2.0 (npm v3.10.9) Creating default alias: default -> v7.2.0 [root@bna-com ~]# cd /opt/bnacmty/ [root@bna-com bnacmty]# git clone -b v1.x.x https://github.com/NodeBB/NodeBB nodebb Cloning into 'nodebb'... remote: Counting objects: 112796, done. remote: Compressing objects: 100% (101/101), done. remote: Total 112796 (delta 38), reused 2 (delta 2), pack-reused 112693 Receiving objects: 100% (112796/112796), 34.86 MiB | 9.87 MiB/s, done. Resolving deltas: 100% (84665/84665), done. [root@bna-com bnacmty]# cd nodebb [root@bna-com nodebb]# npm install npm WARN deprecated [email protected]: use uuid module instead npm WARN deprecated [email protected]: wrench.js is deprecated! You should check out fs-extra (https://github.com/jprichardson/node-fs-extra) for any operations you were using wrench for. Thanks for all the usage over the years. npm WARN deprecated [email protected]: Please update to minimatch 3.0.2 or higher to avoid a RegExp DoS issue npm WARN deprecated [email protected]: Please update to minimatch 3.0.2 or higher to avoid a RegExp DoS issue npm WARN deprecated [email protected]: graceful-fs v3.0.0 and before will fail on node releases >= v7.0. Please update to graceful-fs@^4.0.0 as soon as possible. Use 'npm ls graceful-fs' to find it in the tree. [email protected] /opt/bnacmty/nodebb
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    Emoji doesn't work - running "Update Files" from ACP results in "connection refused"

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    After installing NodeBB I've been trying to configure Emoji. I've installed nodebb-plugin-emoji-extended and nodebb-plugin-emoji-one through the admin interface and have also activated them. But in the front-end the smiley selection button above the messages box does not appear.

    I've tried running "Update Files" in the ACP, which doesn't seem to be working. Popping up the console, I see various errors stating "GET http://95.85.57.198:4567/socket.io/?EIO=3&transport=polling&t=LYgu_ke net::ERR_CONNECTION_REFUSED" (from acp.min.js?v=a114ca78-1b00-48b4-8cb1-6d5fb06836f3:5).

    Help would be much appreciated.

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    site logo issues

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    A mystery problem... quaint.

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    Little help with skin styles

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    @yariplus thank you, that brought the missing slash back ❤

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    Custom /sitemap/pages.xml

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    @baris damn that was fast... did you test? hahaha jk ❤

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    Updating to 1.3.0 - Issues

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    It would be great if we could fix this so I can upgrade 🙂

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    Issues with the default "Featured Topics" widget.

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    Hello, I hope this is the right place for this question.

    When I add the "Featured Topics" widget to my sidebar the links it adds are broken, and are also formatted strangely (the indentation is weird, text is always bold, etc.) which is different from all of the other widgets I've tried that display various forum topics.

    Here's an example: https://gfycat.com/FocusedHoarseCobra

    Any idea why this might be happening? We've barely changed anything from the vanilla package we installed.

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    topic editor wrong

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    I write a new topic ,and add tags ,the input field be missing,see the picture ,look out red line。

    0_1479930239050_20161124033907.png

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    Show just a reply

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    Hi,
    Is it possible to show just one reply from a topic. I know how to go to one specific answer in a topic by adding slash number of reply. But it shows all replies. What I want is to filter just the desired reply.

    Thanks.

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    Error Installing Development Tools

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    I'm trying to install NodeBB using the CentOS documentation for install and am admittedly a noob. Things seem to go well until I get to installing the Development Tools in step 3 (https://nodebb.readthedocs.io/en/latest/installing/os/centos.html).

    I get an error that says Error: Package: intltool-0.41.0-1.1.e16.noarch (base) Requires: perl(XML::Parser).

    However, I'm pretty positive I have the 2.44 version of the Perl XML Parser installed. And, my Perl version is v5.10.1 - any help would be amazing.

    Thanks in advance!

    Mike

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