Technical Support

If you want, feel free to share the config above - works with redis - not mongo - which is fine with me bc I prefer redis all day anyhow. it's 30 times quicker and smarter in my limited experience with mongo - you know it picked up the data i already had in mongo and I didn't even do anything :-). This could have been the forever logs - but I have no idea - node is new to me - but i'm starting to really like it.

Would you happen to have your upstart script that you use to keep your forums going on reboot? Or method that you use? Like specific - that will be the icing on the cake for me.

@BDHarrington7 No idea, and wouldn't know how to check it. Anyway, I already destroyed the Droplet so I can't answer that question. In a bit I will rebuild a new CentOS droplet and start from scratch.

I think my biggest issue is simply not understanding file and directory paths. I am likely in the wrong folder running commands that expect me to be in another folder, etc.

If I had hair on my head it would be gone by now.

I'm not looking for a fully automated process, but a process that generates a list of spam users, where the admin can ban or delete these users with just one click.

There are several ways to identify spam users.

What I see is, that users register and either place a spam post directly or wait several days and then post spam.
So in our forum a user with one post and negative reputation is a spammer with a 99.5% hit rate.

I really would appreciate a plugin for that, or better a broader one, where based on user parameters different actions like 'ban' or 'delete' can be taken on admin' s decision. One admin could prefer 'ban' another one could prefer 'delete'.

Also there could be different triggers for actions like 1 post and negative reputation
registered long (= month or years) ago, but no post,....

Unfortunately I'm pretty new to nodebb and not able to code a plugin myself.

How much memory does the local installation running on redis consumes?

GitHub (github.com)

I am up and running! I am pretty sure I figured out what the issue was. Oh man, this is embarrassing...

So, I used the Terminal on my Mac to ssh into the server. However, what I didn't know is that I must have somehow lost the connection either from being away from the computer for too long and/or letting the computer go to sleep. So, when I would go back to continue with the tutorial I was no longer connected to the server, and thus when I was running the command I would see the error. I dunno, I think that's what happened. Anyway, that's my story and I'm sticking to it!

@pitaj said:

npm install

It works now. Thanks a lot for your help. Would have never figured out by myself:)

Awesome idea with this API btw, i almost gave up because i'm not familiar with nodejs, but when i found this plugin i realised that this is no longer an issue:)

Great work guys

I run the VPS SSD plan on OVH for my forum with Ubuntu 14.04 and everything is working very well 🙂

That means you're running on development mode, try running on production? That string doesn't change until you update NodeBB in prod

Thanks @baris , seems the same issue indeed. 🙂

With 0.2.1 it works. Thank you very much!

@Gryphon00 said:

PLEASE HELP!!!!!!!
Please fix it ASAP and keep me informed about the results. this forum is very important to me.

Demanding we fix it will get you nowhere. You can ask for help though. 502 Bad Gateway means it's not running. Try running ./nodebb dev in your NodeBB folder and seeing if it either crashes and supplies an error, or loads as it should.

Also Refer to the documentation, it'll likely be in there. Link to Documentation

pinging @pitaj & @julian

You can find it in the theme you are using. The file is called login.tpl. For example for persona its here. https://github.com/NodeBB/nodebb-theme-persona/blob/master/templates/login.tpl#L15

The server sends in the value depending on what the ACP setting is set to. If you only allow login by username that value changes to Username etc.

Alternatively post it here in case others run into the same issue.

For anyone struggling with this...

Refer to the documentation, it'll likely be in there. Link to Documentation

Its a pretty outdated comment, I should remove it. A lot of major stuff that I was planning in the first place for persona's account pages is already done, mostly by @baris actually 🙂

A most recent example is his password confirmation for editing important account fields.

I just switched to 0.8.2 today and was able to dismiss notifications on my Macbook.

@pitaj I did some testing today with /categories 404'd. Seems as though things continued to work fine. I'm not disabling the functionality, just access to the page.

This would be useful. I used to take a daily & weekly screenshot and post them in a thread in a moderators forum.

Thanks a lot people 😉