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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.
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    nodebb doesnt work on windows

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    PitaJP
    @avii try disabling all plugins. Make sure you have node v5+ installed.
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    Problem getting NodeBB to work on a subfolder rather than a subdomain

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    I updated to v1.3.0 and now I'm getting a different error when trying to visit the forum TypeError: Cannot read property 'loggedIn' of undefined at helpers.displayMenuItem (/home/myuser/nodebb/public/src/modules/helpers.js:20:44) at checkConditionalHelpers (/home/myuser/nodebb/node_modules/templates.js/lib/templates.js:269:76) at parse (/home/myuser/nodebb/node_modules/templates.js/lib/templates.js:424:15) at parseTemplate (/home/myuser/nodebb/node_modules/templates.js/lib/templates.js:133:14) at Object.templates.parse (/home/myuser/nodebb/node_modules/templates.js/lib/templates.js:119:11) at /home/myuser/nodebb/node_modules/templates.js/lib/templates.js:169:30 at FSReqWrap.readFileAfterClose [as oncomplete] (fs.js:445:3)
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    Blank Login Page

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    julianJ
    Paste your startup log.
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    E-Mail confirmation?

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    PitaJP
    @noob you have to have an email on your user account. You have to have an emailer plugin installed, or whitelist your server.
  • Bruce LeeB

    Admin timeout

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    @Bruce-Lee don't think that's an option in ACP. It's in the code.
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    pre approved topics

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    @hnahli create a plugin to listen for filter:topic.create hook to pass in a flag to identify which topics need to be approved. Listen to filter:topics.get hook to filter out topics that need to be approved.
  • ClausC

    How to get user data in partials/topic/post.tpl ?

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    I think to do this, you'd better hook "filter:post.upvote", check user's reputation, then return error info if not satisfied. This hook source code is at file socket.io/posts/helpers.js. See NodeBB how to do this for not-enough-reputation-to-downvote in src/posts/votes.js: if (command === 'downvote' && parseInt(results.reputation) < parseInt(meta.config['privileges:downvote'], 10)) { return callback(new Error('[[error:not-enough-reputation-to-downvote]]')); }
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    How to install nodebb on Windows XP vps

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    PitaJP
    @Hsm909 you either need to run setup with a different database name, or delete the admin credentials from your existing database.
  • Lucas SeverynL

    Is it possible to change the url in the email notifications?

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    Lucas SeverynL
    For the sake of completeness, here is how I solved it. I'm not very proud of the solution but it works. In the emailer plugin, I added this bit to mailOptions variable. Now I need to be very careful not to update the plugin and overwrite the index.js file var mailOptions = { from: data.from, to: data.to, html: data.html.replaceAll ('src="/nodebb/','src="http://dash/nodebb/'), text: data.plaintext, // subject: data.subject subject: combinedTopic };
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    Documents upload

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    @yariplus Thanks so much, I had the permissions allowed in the categories but not in the uploads Working now!
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    I got this error after v1.3.0 upgrade.

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    PitaJP
    @humanmadeaccount turn off nodebb-plugin-custom-pages
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    nginx error (solved)

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    feroomF
    said in nginx error: comman for shell journalctl -xe And post last log from /etc/nginx/error.log Problem in webserver config files
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    How to include the reputation of the user in welcoming widget ?

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    โทนี่ ไทยโ
    How can I show something like : "Hello xxxxx, you have xxxx reputation" on a welcoming html widget. Is it possible to use these variables to do something else ? For example : if(reputation>50){ //SHOW SOMETHING } else{ //SHOW SOMETHING ELSE }
  • GuraxG

    Global widget area in theme

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    GuraxG
    No any error in console. It may be a bug? In src/widgets/admin.js the Global parameter is used { name: 'Global Sidebar', template: 'global', location: 'sidebar' }, { name: 'Global Header', template: 'global', location: 'header' }, { name: 'Global Footer', template: 'global', location: 'footer' }, { name: 'Group Page (Left)', template: 'groups/details.tpl', location: 'left'}, { name: 'Group Page (Right)', template: 'groups/details.tpl', location: 'right'}
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    How change loadbar color and hr in topics

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    @yariplus thank you!
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    This topic is deleted!

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  • Lucas SeverynL

    Is there any way to edit users category subscriptions by Admin?

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    Lucas SeverynL
    Hi Guys, Is there any way to make all users within a group to subscribe to certain categories?
  • jheisenJ

    nodeBB setup {windows}

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    @PitaJ said in nodeBB setup {windows}: @jheisen try installing Node6 instead of the old version in the docs. Then try using cmd instead of PowerShell. Shall do, I will post results later.
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    Help - Configuring Apache v2.2.15 as a reverse proxy to NodeBB

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    Re: Apache 2.2.15 with websocket not working...already backported mod_proxy_wstunnel So far I have installed and configured nodebb successfully and it is running on port 4567. But I am struck with the last step which is configuring web server as proxy. My server is running on CentOS 6.8 and I am struck with Apache 2.2.15 . I can see that I need to follow below procedure . https://docs.nodebb.org/en/latest/configuring/proxies/apache2.2.html The problem is I am very new to linux and couldn't understand the steps mentioned there. Searched online but couldn't find any article with detailed steps. Can some one who did this already help me with steps / instructions. Thanks in advance.
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