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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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    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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    v0.9.3: Email "tests" display [NodeBB] and not the name of the forum

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    Thanks @Rod, I believe this is fixed in master already 😄

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    NodeBB Websocket Question

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    On Concurrent WebSockets connections...

    A Lightstreamer plugin would be interesting to see. Likely overkill in most situations though. Carving out the websockets demand on resources could be good in large deployments; lightstreamer server. With Comet functionality, one could hook into big data analytic platforms.

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    [nodebb-plugin-emailer-mailgun] installs with an error - directory missing

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    I have attempted to install the emailer-mailgun plugin and end up with an error. When I install from the ACP an ENOENT, open error is displayed, momentarily, referencing a path in the plugin that does not exist. The path error is:

    Error ENOENT, open '/path to my installation/node_modules/nodebb-plugin-emailer-mailgun/node_modules/mailgun-js/node_modules/form-data/node_modules/mime/package.json'

    The form-data directory is not there.

    I am running Nodebb v0.9.3 and the emailer-mailgun plugin is reporting itself as version 1.0.0.

    Has anyone else run into this problem and is there a work around to resolve the problem?

    Thank you.

    Edit: This is a low priority issue. I installed the nodebb-plugin-emailer-local-bobo plugin and was able to configure it to use Mailgun just fine. I am using the SMTP settings as opposed to the API call but that is fine for my usage.

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    Redirect after register/registration

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    @baris thank you very much! Much appreciated.

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    Couple of issues here...

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    Did a fresh install not working yay after I reinstalled redis server not following the guide on nodebb working great. Trying to remove nodejs+npm is messed up since the fresh install won't work with the current installation (npm install).

    I give up, errors here errors there, fuck..

    thanks for the help given... I think..

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    Add animations to certain areas?

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    Thanks @pichalite it works great. @ARC also a good idea.. I will remember that for future addons..

    I replaced your fadein animation with one from animate.css (FadeInBottom) which slides the rows up and fades in at the same time which looks great when scrolling normally but looks a bit crazy when you page jump (since they all slide up at the same time causing the scrollbar to go a bit crazy 🙂 ) so i set it back to the one you added. I will experiment with it to see if the users like it or not.. Thanks for your help.

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    theme creation + git

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    @yariplus @frissdiegurke thank you very much for these informations. Now i have to test it.

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    NodeBB composer drag bar, simple CSS tweak

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    @Arc It's great! Thank you very much for this, I included it in my forum immediately 🙂

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    [solved] Remove plugin manually and 502 error >> plugin-sso-wordpress bug

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    @a_5mith you are right but the plugin seems to work.

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    "Failed login attempt, please try again. Invalid User Data" when attempting login as admin

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    @Joykiller there is no issue setting NodeBB up as root. I always do it like that and later chown the installation to another user. Then I start NodeBB over Supervisoe from that non-root user.

    Update:
    All issues resolved. 😛
    Re-setup everything.

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    [Solved] Help getting it to work

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    JenklerJ

    @Defaultuser You can also install custom pages and other plugins to make nodebb as a webpage. Check out my page, https://www.jenkler.se (Its in swedish but you get the point i guess) 😛

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    Running NodeBB results in: "TypeError: Object #<Object> has no method 'access'"

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    @AOKP thank you, thank you, thank you! Did this and was able to run NodeBB without issue.

    @julian I was curious about that, as I had no issues with a fresh install yesterday.

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    Installing Wordpress and NodeBB on Digital Ocean

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    @AOKP nothing really to share with the site yet, but if you're asking about the issue, this is what I'm struggling with.

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    Errors Search and Email

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    @pichalite said:

    @Defaultuser do you have the plugin nodebb-plugin-dbsearch activated?

    I believe links to email confirmation expire after certain time (need to confirm). Create a new user and try to verify it right away.

    I activated the search plugin. It works.

    I made a test account and still get that error. Also my admin account gets this error. I sent receive the email as soon as I login and the pop up asking to confirm it.

    *Edit trying to replace the nodebb logo in settings ends up have my logo and nodebb, where is the is the nodebb logo so I can replace it?

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    Error when starting NodeBB (Error parsing your configuration file)

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    @pichalite Nope, use_port has been deprecated. Port usage is dictated by url from now on.

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    Where to put custom CSS file..

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    @yariplus said:

    <link rel="stylesheet" href="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/font-awesome-animation/0.0.8/font-awesome-animation.min.css">

    Perfect.. Thanks

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    Invited users can't register Error: invalid-token...

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    The 24h delay was the issue.

    Thank you.

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    NPM Timing Out on NodeBB dependencies install

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    I was having some issues with NPM a few days ago which was timing out, but was a issue with ports due to my firewall setup. So check to make sure git port is not being blocked.

    Also could be an issue with the way your cloning. Was having issues cloning from another git like gitlab vs github, turns out the git:// git:link was the issue try adding that to the front if using SSH cloning.

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    issues installing Nodebb on Debian 8

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    This might be just me, but I wouldn't be loading that under root directory. Create a new user and use that for nodebb location under home location. As to nodebb not showing up. What does your nodebb config, and nginx config look like? I don't know what you mean by debian comes with nginx already. Sure might be in the repo but shouldn't come installed, Unless a script you ran installed it for you.

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    E-mails keep sending after turning the subscription notifications off.

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    Hello guys, I'm a new member of this community, but i've already encountered a problem with my nodeBB forum

    My users have reported that there's no way to turn off the e-mail following notifications and they keep on sending, even though i turned it off globally.

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    Do you guys have any idea of what is wrong?

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