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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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    Facebook SSO Plugin - Email Issue

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    @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.
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    New Topic Button not working.

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    tfraleyT
    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
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    Security Groups?

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

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    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)
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    BUG. Incorrect display of links in chat

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  • Zig.gyZ

    Finished the installation but can't see NodeBB in a web browser

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    Zig.gyZ
    Thanks. It is resolved now.
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    BUG. Notifications are read during the transition to the profile

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    julianJ
    Thanks! gh#3370
  • Theodore PhamT

    Invalid CSRF token on 0.7.1

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    Theodore PhamT
    It seems that some users had to clear cookies (and maybe html5 localstorage) to get pass the Forbidden error, even after it was fixed for me. When I was having the problem initially, clearing cookies didn't seem to help, but at least one form of the error is due to having outdated cookies. This may have been caused by changing the secret key in config.json.
  • codejetC

    Widget area's Persona and wide button

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    @julian how can I add other area to Persona ? I just want some in the Home, other in the Detail.
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    Problem installing NodeBB

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    BriB
    Also it looks like the redis version is a little old, you might want to upgrade that too: https://community.nodebb.org/topic/5935/problem-with-redis-upgrade
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    Setting up a new instance of NodeBB with old database?

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    @Juxtapo What do the MongoDB logs suggest is the problem?
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    I am stuck on Step 5 through 7 of Installation using MongoDB

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    Thank you @markkus and @jarey for your replies. I did what you suggested about re-installation and the problem persisted. I then discovered something... ...the installation manual may be outdated. The file in question on Step 7 is mongod.conf instead of mongodb.conf. [image: VsINljc.png] [image: CC74IQ7.png] Can @psychobunny or whoever in charge of the Doc double check this and make the proper correction?
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    Broke everything trying to mess with persona

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    As I am a irreparable idiot, in the pursuit of messing with my Lavender/Persona hibrid theme I in some likely unrelated way totally destroyed everything. I was messing around with CSS, hit restart, and the server went down, hard. And hasnt come back since. I've tried restarting the server, running nodebb resets for widgets, themes, and plugins, restarting nodebb what must be 50 times. The log output I'm getting is: Clustering enabled: Spinning up 1 process(es). 26/7 19:57 [1252] - info: Time: Sun Jul 26 2015 19:57:53 GMT-0400 (EDT) 26/7 19:57 [1252] - info: Initializing NodeBB v0.7.1 26/7 19:57 [1252] - error: [meta.dependencies] Could not read: nodebb-plugin-spam-be-gone [cluster] Child Process (1252) has exited (code: 0, signal: null) and when I try to access the page, I get a: This webpage is not available ERR_CONNECTION_REFUSED I assumed this was a redis issue, so I tried restarting redis to no efffect, I know I disabled the emoji plugin so tried to reinstall it via SSH but it didnt help. Any suggestions for getting this back up and running? Edit 1: Tried running npm install to see if it could be some update issue, will update with results. Edit 2: running npm install appears to have fixed it. Future people with this issue, use NPM install and dont be an idiot like me resetting everything.
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    Lavender theme masonry on Persona

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    yariplusY
    Hmm, That should work, as long as you changed all the identifiers. I've done the same thing with my own themes.
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    Quit admin group when I am the only user

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    barisB
    Try removing vanilla theme with npm r nodebb-theme-vanilla then try again.
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    This topic is deleted!

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  • drewD

    baseTheme causing issues?

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    drewD
    @julian the inherited themes didn't work before, but is it possible that now you've made this commit: https://github.com/NodeBB/nodebb-theme-lavender/commit/7f8e9e4df0f0d20e8b83ab096c1443544df9bd4c There is scope for the template inheritance to be used there instead of the hardcoded rule 'nodebb-theme-vanilla/templates'? Right now I'm maintaining an entire theme that's a fork of lavender just so I can restyle one or two pages.
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    Cant setup Nodebb on my Website that uses centos vpn

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    Yea now mongo cant connect to my databse god 4th day i reinstalled my vps 5 times..
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    nodebb web setup - Configure your database - Digital Ocean

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    Thanks for all the help! For anyone else with this issue, the end solution was setting up the server via SSH not using the web console, shutting down nodebb with ./nodebb stop running: sudo apt-add-repository ppa:chris-lea/redis-server sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install redis-server to update redis, then starting nodebb back up using ./nodebb start
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    Have a background while content has a different background

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    Will take a look when I get home. Or just use firebug inspect element for the topic li.
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