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  • User documentation for NodeBB

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    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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    Code snippets or syntax highlight

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    Yes you can wrap the code with 3 backticks. ``` code here ``` code here code here
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    "leaving-subdomain" alert when connecting to a rootdomain link

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    Here is my current nginx config, problem with the warning that I'm leaving our www.domain.com board to domain.com still exist: server { listen 80; server_name domain.com; location / { proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr; proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for; proxy_set_header Host $http_host; proxy_set_header X-NginX-Proxy true; proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:4567/; proxy_redirect off; # Socket.IO Support proxy_http_version 1.1; proxy_set_header Upgrade $http_upgrade; proxy_set_header Connection "upgrade"; } } server { server_name www.domain.com; rewrite ^(.*) http://domain.com$1 permanent; } server { listen 80; server_name www.domain.com; return 301 domain.com$request_uri; }
  • Astralis LuxA

    Noticed this theme has multiple h1 tags on the same page

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    A couple of years ago there was also a lower adoption of html5 elements. Having one h1 tag per page is still a good Idea in general, but it is allowable to have one h1 tag per containing article tag as well. Since this theme does not seem to use tags like article and aside (that I've seen in my quick check) I agree that there should only be one h1 tag per page which contains the page title or headline. The theme structure is otherwise good, but could definitely use with some contextual revamping of quite a few divs.
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    Heroku setup 0.6.1 error permissions ./nodebb

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    Hi guys! I have previous 0.5.0-2 version of forum on Heroku. It works fine. When I updated NodeBB to 0.6.1 version it crashed with error. Any ideas? 2015-04-30T06:31:05.151177+00:00 heroku[web.1]: State changed from crashed to starting 2015-04-30T06:31:12.946261+00:00 heroku[web.1]: Starting process with command npm start 2015-04-30T06:31:16.159469+00:00 app[web.1]: Detected 512 MB available memory, 512 MB limit per process (WEB_MEMORY) 2015-04-30T06:31:16.159494+00:00 app[web.1]: Recommending WEB_CONCURRENCY=1 2015-04-30T06:31:16.817884+00:00 app[web.1]: 2015-04-30T06:31:16.817890+00:00 app[web.1]: > [email protected] start /app 2015-04-30T06:31:16.817892+00:00 app[web.1]: > ./nodebb start 2015-04-30T06:31:16.817893+00:00 app[web.1]: 2015-04-30T06:31:16.854535+00:00 app[web.1]: sh: 1: ./nodebb: Permission denied 2015-04-30T06:31:16.873738+00:00 app[web.1]: npm ERR! Linux 3.13.0-49-generic 2015-04-30T06:31:16.878037+00:00 app[web.1]: npm ERR! code ELIFECYCLE 2015-04-30T06:31:16.878041+00:00 app[web.1]: npm ERR! [email protected] start: ./nodebb start 2015-04-30T06:31:16.878043+00:00 app[web.1]: npm ERR! Exit status 126 2015-04-30T06:31:16.878044+00:00 app[web.1]: npm ERR! 2015-04-30T06:31:16.878046+00:00 app[web.1]: npm ERR! Failed at the [email protected] start script './nodebb start'. 2015-04-30T06:31:16.878048+00:00 app[web.1]: npm ERR! This is most likely a problem with the nodebb package, 2015-04-30T06:31:16.878049+00:00 app[web.1]: npm ERR! not with npm itself. 2015-04-30T06:31:16.878050+00:00 app[web.1]: npm ERR! Tell the author that this fails on your system: 2015-04-30T06:31:16.878052+00:00 app[web.1]: npm ERR! ./nodebb start 2015-04-30T06:31:16.878054+00:00 app[web.1]: npm ERR! You can get their info via: 2015-04-30T06:31:16.878693+00:00 app[web.1]: npm ERR! npm owner ls nodebb 2015-04-30T06:31:16.878696+00:00 app[web.1]: npm ERR! There is likely additional logging output above. 2015-04-30T06:31:16.889120+00:00 app[web.1]: 2015-04-30T06:31:16.899848+00:00 app[web.1]: npm ERR! /app/npm-debug.log 2015-04-30T06:31:16.866363+00:00 app[web.1]: 2015-04-30T06:31:16.874577+00:00 app[web.1]: npm ERR! argv "/app/.heroku/node/bin/node" "/app/.heroku/node/bin/npm" "start" 2015-04-30T06:31:16.875101+00:00 app[web.1]: npm ERR! node v0.12.2 2015-04-30T06:31:16.876089+00:00 app[web.1]: npm ERR! npm v2.7.4 2015-04-30T06:31:16.897668+00:00 app[web.1]: npm ERR! Please include the following file with any support request: 2015-04-30T06:31:17.925842+00:00 heroku[web.1]: Process exited with status 1 2015-04-30T06:31:17.938969+00:00 heroku[web.1]: State changed from starting to crashed
  • DimD

    [Nodebb-theme-Lavender] Post/Topic option problem

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    @Dim said: ".modal-backdrop { z-index: 0; } " .modal-backdrop { z-index: auto; } Would probably be preferable, since auto makes it behave like no z-index property has been specified (as is the case in the default Bootstrap theme used in lavender and persona) which makes the element inherit the z-index of its parent, whereas z-index: 0 forces the z-index to be, well, 0.
  • PopsRockerP

    DigitalOcean and ServerPilot

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    Thanks @nhl-pl I was using Ajenti V and the only reason I switched away from using it was do to the lack of documentation. I have used the traditional Apache based web server setups for many years and the Nginx server was all foreign to me so it was a challenge any time I wanted to add something or even troubleshooting issues. It reminds me of when I was evaluating blog/cms alternatives for a Coldfusion based website back when Wordpress was less than a year old. I looked at Wordpress and Drupal and decided to go with Wordpress because at the time Drupal was too complicated and didn't have very good documentation. I switched to Drupal just before Drupal 7 came out and was amazed at the progress it had made and how much simpler it was from what I remembered. It is possible however, that it seemed easier because my knowledge base was a lot bigger. That was a long winded way of saying I may revisit Ajenti eventually once I have learned more about the Nginx and Node.js way of server management. Thanks ... Pops
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    GETing posts in categories that are only accessable to certain groups?

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    I'm writing a bot that GETs a specific post from a category on my forum, and this category is only accessable by admins. Only problem is, GETting that post always returns a 401 Not Authorized response, because it's not open to users. I've tried using auth=(username, password), Authorization: Bearer, even sending it in the GET params, but they all just return 401. Any way of doing this?
  • Федор ЛевинчукФ

    ACP not responsive for mobile version

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    yep, just update theme solved in package.json is old version for 6.1.x
  • Федор ЛевинчукФ

    SSO only, how to disable simple auth

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    or how to combine difference acc in one? simple auth + sso steam + sso vk + ... = in one profile
  • Федор ЛевинчукФ

    how to change avatar? -))

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    thx, solved
  • Федор ЛевинчукФ

    mongodb repl set support

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    perfect, thx
  • Федор ЛевинчукФ

    0.7 and plugins support

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    just installed dev version 0.7, in console log that buildin plugins can cause err -) installed sso steam in 0.7, plugin unstable, sometime working, sometime not working is there compabality list for plugins? or compabality tests for plugins?
  • Федор ЛевинчукФ

    how to remove icon from category?

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    thx solved -)
  • KotoWolodK

    nodebb v0.6.1 websockets handshake error 400&502

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    Might be a separate issue then, unfortunately I'm not familiar with those plugins.
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    [solved] Don't migrated NodeBB

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    @yariplus Strangely, I tried to run this command but redis-server does not turn off.
  • Chengliang XuC

    How to set homepage to popular topics in 0.6.1

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    ok . thanks a lot
  • KotoWolodK

    How to update mongo data from 0.5.0 to 0.6.1?

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    This is the manual how to update/upgrade from v0.5.0 to v0.6.1 git checkout c9228f14837fcf2903923ebca3d90a0d1517a713 (I don't now why v0.5.1 doesn't work in cli and csrf token error) ./nodebb upgrade git checkout d341428ca1b88d56f7c7fe37d3e5e87d83bb0698 (v0.5.2 doesn`t work in cli too) ./nodebb upgrade git checkout cce076fc83e6a29c7d385ee757cce4b40c63daf2 (v0.5.3 work in cli, but I am not interesting in experiments) ./nodebb upgrade git checkout 1943f8fdfa573b40e8b0c5e23e68142a71b2cf93 (v0.5.4) ./nodebb upgrade git checkout d6c17d5cae66f2ab0d4174e1b6bdda24856eacbe (v0.5.5) ./nodebb upgrade git checkout e7ecd0f1eb81c54f33f51958b64aa937613bc99d (v0.5.6) ./nodebb upgrade git checkout 6748013c6534ed672184145ee7b5120eb07e7b47 (v0.5.7) ./nodebb upgrade git checkout accee7d05ba3f791627d439ac1c73cf5f858eebe (v0.6.0) ./nodebb upgrade git checkout 4686ae992318eeaaff1945868ee4cc094dcda17d (v0.6.1) ./nodebb upgrade git checkout c2656bf0b69ec05b1cbc123ef06ec0b14657cc8b (stable) ./nodebb upgrade npm up clear cache and cookies Is anybody knowing the better solution? Please, give me to know.
  • PopsRockerP

    Question regarding multiple instances of NodeBB on dedicated server

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    @meetdilip said: @a_5mith A few doubts, Copy files from folder to which we have installed ? The github repo, so you'd have a folder called nodebb with all of the nodebb files in, then a folder called nodebb2, which also contains all the nodebb files. Share the command to change port no. please.. ./nodebb setup, but change :4567 to something else. How to assign new folder / installation to database 2 ? You answered this in your next post, change the 0 in database to 1. Should we run ./nodebb setup after copying the files ( installed ? ) to a new folder ? You will need to yes in order to set it up, you'll also need to run npm install to get the dependencies installed in that location.
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    Invalid data /

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    Just to put this issue to bed. I trashed the old forum. Installed new. New git clone... new database. Problem solved. Rich
  • PopsRockerP

    NodeBB Setup Aborted - help with install parameters

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    @baris said: The error message is telling you that it can't access/save the file. Make sure the user you are running the commands has the proper permissions. I wondered that too, I was using a user I specifically created for this task in order to not use the root user as I thought it was not a good practice to do. Especially since the instructions indicate a sudo user. Usually I can figure out permission issues, but for some reason I have not been able to solve this one. The installation does get further when using the root user, so there is definitely a permission issue. The error I get now is related to the connection of the Redis database. I get a connection refused error when using the IP of the server. The abort error shows the IP address and default port number so I have no idea how to connect the database. Here's the latest console information ... [email protected] node_modules/connect-redis └── [email protected] ([email protected]) 25/4 19:08 [21628] - info: Populating database with default configs, if not already set... 25/4 19:08 [21628] - error: Error: Redis connection to myserverIP:6379 failed - connect ECONNREFUSED at RedisClient.flush_and_error (/mydomainpath/nodebb/node_modules/redis/index.js:142:13) at RedisClient.on_error (/mydomainpath/nodebb/node_modules/redis/index.js:180:10) at Socket.<anonymous> (/mydomainpath/nodebb/node_modules/redis/index.js:95:14) at Socket.EventEmitter.emit (events.js:95:17) at net.js:441:14 at process._tickCallback (node.js:415:13) 25/4 19:08 [21628] - warn: NodeBB Setup Aborted. Redis connection to myserverIP:6379 failed - connect ECONNREFUSED Thanks ... Pops
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