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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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    Z
    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.
  • GeraldG

    Unable to post, reply or make thread

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    GeraldG
    Title basically says it all, I installed a plugin, then when I went try and post on my forum, I wasn't able to. So I uninstalled the plugins using this thread - https://community.nodebb.org/topic/1270/disable-plugin-from-cli/5 Checked if the plugins were on the site and they were, event checked on root. Any ideas?
  • lulzdevL

    Maximum password length: DOS Potential

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    @bentael said: @psychobunny what about showing a captcha after 2 or 3 failed logins? Yup that works
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    CDN for External Files

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    yariplusY
    You need a plugin that uses the filter:uploadFile hook to do that. It doesn't look like any exist yet. What CDN did you want to use?
  • thuanpq.ioT

    How to fetch more data for Categories page

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    done, I can call a function when this hook is fired filter:categories.build
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    Persona Theme issue after updating to 0.9.3

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    BriB
    +1 on keeping it in English. It's hard enough to keep one language of the doc portal in sync.
  • GeraldG

    This topic is deleted!

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    Hooks help

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    @Whiplash174 don't think it's a problem with the hook. The warning on the startup is just an indication that the hook will be removed in the future but it works now. Looks like the problem is with the plugin when it tries to delete the awards for the deleted user. Create an issue on the plugin github page.
  • GeraldG

    Problem terminal

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    ?
    @Gerald you put a password into your config.json, even though Redis is not using one. Also try running: npm i [email protected]
  • GeraldG

    Changing names votes?

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    KowlinK
    After digging into this is appears that there's actually no language strings for like and dislike, however there's a alternative to the default reputation system, and that is @Nicolas his likes plugin. This will work with the latest version of NodeBB.
  • PappmannP

    can´t upgrade -> Unable to initialize MongoDB

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    PappmannP
    i treid some things now i have folowing error error: Unable to initialize MongoDB! Is MongoDB installed? Error :Cannot find module 'connect-mongo' 9/1 03:56 [23336] - error: Error: Cannot find module 'connect-mongo' i tried npm i connect-mongo but that does not help i had to run ./nodebb setup before i can start nodebb again.
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    Domain Not Updating

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    KowlinK
    Issue is solved, seemed to be a wrongly set Allowed-from setting under Settings->Advanced->Headers
  • W

    Templating question: users.lastonlineISO?

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    It works great @pichalite
  • L

    Unable to upload images using NodeBB Plugin Imgur plug in

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    Hi guys. I receive the following error after follow the instruction to install the plug in. It seems like there are some people also not able to fix it. However I saw in this post it is being solved. Can anyone that experience this share their solutions? [image: wH1da1L.png] It also came with the following error in log 8/1 04:13 [204] - error: /api/admin/uploadlogo Error: invalid-refresh-token at refreshToken (/app/node_modules/nodebb-plugin-imgur/index.js:102:20) at Request._callback (/app/node_modules/nodebb-plugin-imgur/index.js:216:13) at Request.self.callback (/app/node_modules/request/request.js:198:22) at emitTwo (events.js:87:13) at Request.emit (events.js:172:7) at Request.<anonymous> (/app/node_modules/request/request.js:1035:10) at emitOne (events.js:82:20) at Request.emit (events.js:169:7) at IncomingMessage.<anonymous> (/app/node_modules/request/request.js:962:12) at emitNone (events.js:72:20) at IncomingMessage.emit (events.js:166:7)
  • GeraldG

    Global plugins - help

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    @Gerald sent a PM P.S: I am not one of the "GUYS". Just a fellow user helping.
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    Image loss issue

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    @linan2332 after you install and activate imgur plugin, site logo and category image upload also uploads to imgur.
  • DakoomD

    Create a NodeBB installation test on localhost

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    DakoomD
    Ok, I installed Git, now the command works. Currently cloning... and finally installing dependencises... and I received these erros: It also ask me now for a redis database name. What should I write for it? npm WARN deprecated [email protected]: lodash@<2.0.0 is no longer maintained. Upgrade to lodash@^3.0.0 npm WARN deprecated [email protected]: lodash@<2.0.0 is no longer maintained. Upgrade to lodash@^3.0.0 [email protected] install /Users/Dakoom/NodeBB/node_modules/bufferutil node-gyp rebuild xcode-select: error: tool 'xcodebuild' requires Xcode, but active developer directory '/Library/Developer/CommandLineTools' is a command line tools instance xcode-select: error: tool 'xcodebuild' requires Xcode, but active developer directory '/Library/Developer/CommandLineTools' is a command line tools instance CXX(target) Release/obj.target/bufferutil/src/bufferutil.o SOLINK_MODULE(target) Release/bufferutil.node [email protected] install /Users/Dakoom/NodeBB/node_modules/utf-8-validate node-gyp rebuild xcode-select: error: tool 'xcodebuild' requires Xcode, but active developer directory '/Library/Developer/CommandLineTools' is a command line tools instance xcode-select: error: tool 'xcodebuild' requires Xcode, but active developer directory '/Library/Developer/CommandLineTools' is a command line tools instance CXX(target) Release/obj.target/validation/src/validation.o SOLINK_MODULE(target) Release/validation.node [email protected] install /Users/Dakoom/NodeBB/node_modules/heapdump node-gyp rebuild xcode-select: error: tool 'xcodebuild' requires Xcode, but active developer directory '/Library/Developer/CommandLineTools' is a command line tools instance xcode-select: error: tool 'xcodebuild' requires Xcode, but active developer directory '/Library/Developer/CommandLineTools' is a command line tools instance CXX(target) Release/obj.target/addon/src/heapdump.o SOLINK_MODULE(target) Release/addon.node EDIT: Ok, installed. Then I suppose that when I entered the db name it automatically created it. Ok, I have it installed and I'll try it a little bit! Thank you all for your suggestions!
  • W

    Topic Errors in logs, crashing app

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    Yes master branch (accidentally but dont want to have to downgrade) Thanks
  • S

    Problem with upload image

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    okay, just a problem with the format : i convert my jpg on png and all is ok (with or without redactor)
  • danielflippanceD

    Selecting Custom Theme in Heroku

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    danielflippanceD
    Or perhaps there is some way to specify which theme to use when starting the NodeBB server? I can't see a way to do this in the config.json file. Can it be changed on the command line? I'm starting it on Heroku by just running the app.js: node app.js
  • ShardS

    Distinct Forum/Subforum templating

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    ShardS
    Aside from building some pretty if/else blocks, is there any way to specify a distinct template for a particular forum or subforum?
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