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Hello fellow Noders. I'm brand new to NodeBB and trying to get it up and running on an Openshift instance however... I cannot get past the stage in the guide where I have to push the install files to the server via a Git push. The thing times out after 5-10 minutes because it's trying to build at the same time. I've also tried setting an Openshift to clone the repository itself as part of the creation process but... the just results in it disappearing from my console about 10 minutes later with the last status being 'building'.

Anyone had any luck. I've been around the interwebs looking for solution but most of the timeout issues are pointing at SSH and not Git. 😕

The guide is this one here. https://docs.nodebb.org/en/latest/installing/cloud/openshift.html

Yeah, might need to just clear cache.

Also made a couple changes to the chat styling this morning for vanilla, might help.

Same problem for me actually. Many missing dependencies. This is sad 😞

Okay, so I fixed it.

Put the tags in the header as usual, then upload the smallest (16x16 as ico) to the general section. This will be the one that nodebb overrides the others with.

The others will still work for other systems like android and such.

@julian perhaps it should not be? I dont know.

@scottalanmiller try npm i express

oh fixed. np

Jut started to notice weird behavior on our forum. When someone creates a new Topic it pulls in posts from older topics and sometimes it pulls in posts from topics from other categories. So, you would expect a new Topic to have just one post, but now it may start out with multiple posts.

I have two sites running. A production and test site. Same behavior on each. I've reverted each to known working versions, but still no luck.

Running 0.7.0 with mongo.

This screen shot shows the new post with multiple topics.

Thanks for your help.

Screen Shot 2015-08-01 at 9.05.01 AM.png

@psychobunny @julian been a while since I played with NodeBB. But now that my Centmin Mod LEMP .08 stable release is out, I decided to play with NodeBB v0.7.2 + Centmin Mod Nginx server setup 🙂

Posted a full how to install guide at https://community.centminmod.com/threads/centmin-mod-nginx-nodebb-forum-install.4009/

Only issue I have right now is forever restart or ./nodebb restart commands don't seem to work ? Stop and start work fine.

Comments and suggestions are welcome 🙂

never mind been a while since i installed nodedbb, that prompt was for database = redis not the redis db number which came later on 🙂

./nodebb setup 1/8 09:58 [5915] - info: NodeBB Setup Triggered via Command Line Welcome to NodeBB! This looks like a new installation, so you'll have to answer a few questions about your environment before we can proceed. Press enter to accept the default setting (shown in brackets). URL used to access this NodeBB (http://localhost:4567) Please enter a NodeBB secret (09df113d-0255-48b7-8e21-c2d0eba3be54) Which database to use (redis) 1/8 09:58 [5915] - info: Now configuring redis database: Host IP or address of your Redis instance (127.0.0.1) Host port of your Redis instance (6379) Password of your Redis database Which database to use (0..n) (0) 3 Configuration Saved OK [email protected] node_modules/redis [email protected] node_modules/connect-redis └── [email protected] ([email protected]) Populating database with default configs, if not already set... Enabling default theme: Persona No categories found, populating instance with default categories 1/8 09:59 [5915] - warn: No administrators have been detected, running initial user setup

I noticed that whenever I reload nodebb, I get error messages like this one in the log:

31/7 23:47 [12036] - error: Error: Failed to lookup view "500" in views directory "/var/www/node/nodebb/public/templates" at EventEmitter.render (/var/www/node/nodebb/node_modules/express/lib/application.js:579:17) at ServerResponse.render (/var/www/node/nodebb/node_modules/express/lib/response.js:961:7) at ServerResponse.res.render (/var/www/node/nodebb/src/middleware/middleware.js:337:10) at /var/www/node/nodebb/src/routes/index.js:223:9 at /var/www/node/nodebb/src/middleware/middleware.js:192:12 at /var/www/node/nodebb/node_modules/async/lib/async.js:589:17 at done (/var/www/node/nodebb/node_modules/async/lib/async.js:126:15) at /var/www/node/nodebb/node_modules/async/lib/async.js:32:16 at /var/www/node/nodebb/node_modules/async/lib/async.js:586:21 at /var/www/node/nodebb/node_modules/templates.js/lib/templates.js:160:12 Error: Failed to lookup view "500" in views directory "/var/www/node/nodebb/public/templates" at EventEmitter.render (/var/www/node/nodebb/node_modules/express/lib/application.js:579:17) at ServerResponse.render (/var/www/node/nodebb/node_modules/express/lib/response.js:961:7) at ServerResponse.res.render (/var/www/node/nodebb/src/middleware/middleware.js:337:10) at /var/www/node/nodebb/src/routes/index.js:223:9 at /var/www/node/nodebb/src/middleware/middleware.js:192:12 at /var/www/node/nodebb/node_modules/async/lib/async.js:589:17 at done (/var/www/node/nodebb/node_modules/async/lib/async.js:126:15) at /var/www/node/nodebb/node_modules/async/lib/async.js:32:16 at /var/www/node/nodebb/node_modules/async/lib/async.js:586:21 at /var/www/node/nodebb/node_modules/templates.js/lib/templates.js:160:12

I think it is users trying to access the page while reloading, but it made me wonder if there is a way to prevent this from happening? Also, I have currently three worker threads enabled. Shouldn't they be restarted successively so every request can be handled?

@Ziggy glad you got it working 😃

@kps - I suspect that is the issue. I don't have an active nodebb instance right now. In the middle of a few things. HOpefully resolve those issues and get back to nodebb over the weekend. 🙂

Fix'd, was something with the plugin, Not sure exactly.

I've uninstalled and install the composer. But not sure why but once I rebooted Unbuntu itself it seemed to kick something free.

Thanks guys

Hhhmm interesting... many thanks, guess i better start learning how to do plugins!

Hi guys,
I think after release of every version / tarball you must hand it over to QA, now I understand this will be messy for you guys to handle so lets form a group for people who want to volunteer on the same.

I would love to volunteer, I'm gonna use code created by you, consider it as a thank you 🙂

And yes @julian I want to write an aerospike connector for nodebb, its way faster than mongo and more reliable than redis

We also require a better way to upgrade the forum (maybe a script that has to be run - for copying attachments and stuff and taking db dumps , then after installations reloading from the dumps and in case of errors falling back to the prev version)

upload-3e2e4d8c-f9f5-4d63-84b9-adda0250ff8d

Thanks. It is resolved now.

Thanks! gh#3370