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I have upgraded my nodebb to v1.12.2 and I am using apache2 as a proxy (https://docs.nodebb.org/configuring/proxies/apache/) but there is an error in the console saying that translations are missing. I just can see the placeholder strings in my forum (remember_me etc.).

The translation files are there, inside the public directory of my nodebb installation.

The problem is that the directory assets does not exist. I tried to set a rewrite condition in the apache2 config file for my forum, in order to rewrite assets for public, but no success. Any help would be very much appreciated.

UPDATE: ./nodebb log shows me the same Missing translation errors, so I guess it has nothing to do with Apache

Update 2: I can also view the source of the translation files from the link prefetch.

Update 3: it seems like it is only an issue when I am logged in as a user in my nodebb installation

Update 4: the issue with only with the current admin user, and for some reason the language setting for this user, after updating nodebb, was set to a language which was not installed on my system. I set it to en-US and all is good now.

Here is a screenshot:

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What version of mongodb? Try downgrading to mongo 3.x

Q: Is it possible for Logged in users to post also posts as guests?

Reason this would be useful is to allow guest posting, that can only be viewed when logged in.

Currently guest post would be wide to the world.

Sometimes existing users and newbies on certain types of forums would like to be able to revert to guest posting where anonymity is important, "asking for a friend..." type questions! 😉

I also have a vague sense this might have already been covered before but I didn't find the exact thread - Please point me in the right direction id this is duplication! Tx!

@julian said in Search options for 2019 NodeBB:

Dbsearch is the recommendation

This is what we are using now. We used to use Solr but it had issues and we came back.

here the main config for the vhost:

#ATTENTION! # #DO NOT MODIFY THIS FILE BECAUSE IT WAS GENERATED AUTOMATICALLY, #SO ALL YOUR CHANGES WILL BE LOST THE NEXT TIME THE FILE IS GENERATED. server { listen 212.227.91.81:443 ssl http2; server_name community.hypercube-evolution.de; server_name www.community.hypercube-evolution.de; server_name ipv4.community.hypercube-evolution.de; server_name "community.hypercube-evolution.de.212-227-91-81.siam-net.de"; ssl_certificate /usr/local/psa/var/certificates/scfbHTbkW; ssl_certificate_key /usr/local/psa/var/certificates/scfbHTbkW; ssl_client_certificate /usr/local/psa/var/certificates/scfLt0HmX; client_max_body_size 128m; root "/var/www/vhosts/hypercube-evolution.de/community.hypercube-evolution.de"; access_log "/var/www/vhosts/system/community.hypercube-evolution.de/logs/proxy_access_ssl_log"; error_log "/var/www/vhosts/system/community.hypercube-evolution.de/logs/proxy_error_log"; #extension letsencrypt begin location ^~ /.well-known/acme-challenge/ { root /var/www/vhosts/default/htdocs; types { } default_type text/plain; satisfy any; auth_basic off; allow all; location ~ ^/\.well-known/acme-challenge.*/\. { deny all; } } #extension letsencrypt end location / { proxy_pass https://212.227.91.81:7081; proxy_set_header Host $host; proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr; proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for; proxy_set_header X-Accel-Internal /internal-nginx-static-location; access_log off; } location /internal-nginx-static-location/ { alias /var/www/vhosts/hypercube-evolution.de/community.hypercube-evolution.de/; internal; } location ~ ^/(plesk-stat|awstats-icon|webstat|webstat-ssl|ftpstat|anon_ftpstat) { proxy_pass https://212.227.91.81:7081; proxy_set_header Host $host; proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr; proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for; proxy_set_header X-Accel-Internal /internal-nginx-static-location; access_log off; } location ~ ^/~(.+?)(/.*?\.php)(/.*)?$ { alias /var/www/vhosts/hypercube-evolution.de/web_users/$1/$2; fastcgi_split_path_info ^((?U).+\.php)(/?.+)$; fastcgi_param PATH_INFO $fastcgi_path_info; fastcgi_pass "unix:///var/www/vhosts/system/community.hypercube-evolution.de/php-fpm.sock"; include /etc/nginx/fastcgi.conf; } location ~ ^/~(.+?)(/.*)?$ { proxy_pass https://212.227.91.81:7081; proxy_set_header Host $host; proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr; proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for; proxy_set_header X-Accel-Internal /internal-nginx-static-location; access_log off; } location ~ \.php(/.*)?$ { fastcgi_split_path_info ^((?U).+\.php)(/?.+)$; fastcgi_param PATH_INFO $fastcgi_path_info; fastcgi_pass "unix:///var/www/vhosts/system/community.hypercube-evolution.de/php-fpm.sock"; include /etc/nginx/fastcgi.conf; } location ~ /$ { index "index.html" "index.cgi" "index.pl" "index.php" "index.xhtml" "index.htm" "index.shtml"; } add_header X-Powered-By PleskLin; include "/var/www/vhosts/system/community.hypercube-evolution.de/conf/vhost_nginx.conf"; }

and here the include

location ~ / { proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr; proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for; proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-Proto $scheme; 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"; }

That plugin is a fork of the sso-oauth plugin. You are supposed to modify mine (not this fork) for your specific installation.

Looks like the built files are not committed into the repo, so it keeps rebuilding and timing out.

sorry this problem is solved the problem was the local firewall ☠

Is there a way enable to search "all" as default for db-search in the forum search bar.

searchbar.jpg

"All" , in context of Titles and Post, Users, Tags and especially post content, which means
the keyword will be retrieved as long as it exist within the post. Currently, keyword search are only limited to post titles.

filter_choices1.jpg

On the other note: Will there be a possibility of having nodebb plugin for Algolia Search?

Thank you so much. I highly appreciate your help.

Thank you so much for your response.

Submitted an issue for this: https://github.com/NodeBB/NodeBB/issues/7601

I want to edit the default settings for mail subscriptions for all users in my forum.
But I can‘t find it out.
Who can help me.
Thanks.

@julian I guess so, I Manually edit the configuration file finally, and it works.

Thanks a million！

My goal is to connect NodeBB to MongoDB only with unix socket.
Found here that is possible to use unix socket with mongodb, also this link was helpfull but can't figure out how to solve this error.

Why "error: failed to connect to server [%2Ftmp%2Fmongodb-1033.sock:27017]" there is default 27017 port, whats missing in this config?

{ "url": "http://www.example.net/forum", "secret": "secret", "database": "mongo", "port": [ "/home/forum/webapps/nodebb.sock" ], "mongo": { "uri": "mongodb://user:pass@%2Ftmp%2Fmongodb-1033.sock/db_name", } } 2019-05-24T20:31:32.180Z [/home/forum/webapps//nodebb.sock/10753] - error: uncaughtException: failed to connect to server [%2Ftmp%2Fmongodb-1033.sock:27017] on first connect [Error: getaddrinfo ENOTFOUND %2Ftmp%2Fmongodb-1033.sock at GetAddrInfoReqWrap.onlookup [as oncomplete] (dns.js:60:26) { name: 'MongoError', message: 'getaddrinfo ENOTFOUND %2Ftmp%2Fmongodb-1033.sock' }] MongoError: failed to connect to server [%2Ftmp%2Fmongodb-1033.sock:27017] on first connect [Error: getaddrinfo ENOTFOUND %2Ftmp%2Fmongodb-1033.sock at GetAddrInfoReqWrap.onlookup [as oncomplete] (dns.js:60:26) { name: 'MongoError', message: 'getaddrinfo ENOTFOUND %2Ftmp%2Fmongodb-1033.sock' }] at Pool.<anonymous> (/home/forum/webapps/nodebb/node_modules/mongodb-core/lib/topologies/server.js:336:35) at Pool.emit (events.js:196:13) at Connection.<anonymous> (/home/forum/webapps/nodebb/node_modules/mongodb-core/lib/connection/pool.js:280:12) at Object.onceWrapper (events.js:284:20) at Connection.emit (events.js:196:13) at Socket.<anonymous> (/home/forum/webapps/nodebb/node_modules/mongodb-core/lib/connection/connection.js:189:49) at Object.onceWrapper (events.js:284:20) at Socket.emit (events.js:196:13) at emitErrorNT (internal/streams/destroy.js:91:8) at emitErrorAndCloseNT (internal/streams/destroy.js:59:3) {"error":{"name":"MongoError","message":"failed to connect to server [%2Ftmp%2Fmongodb-1033.sock:27017] on first connect [Error: getaddrinfo ENOTFOUND %2Ftmp%2Fmongodb-1033.sock\n at GetAddrInfoReqWrap.onlookup [as oncomplete] (dns.js:60:26) {\n name: 'MongoError',\n message: 'getaddrinfo ENOTFOUND %2Ftmp%2Fmongodb-1033.sock'\n}]"},"stack":"MongoError: failed to connect to server [%2Ftmp%2Fmongodb-1033.sock:27017] on first connect [Error: getaddrinfo ENOTFOUND %2Ftmp%2Fmongodb-1033.sock\n at GetAddrInfoReqWrap.onlookup [as oncomplete] (dns.js:60:26) {\n name: 'MongoError',\n message: 'getaddrinfo ENOTFOUND %2Ftmp%2Fmongodb-1033.sock'\n}]\n at Pool.<anonymous> (/home/forum/webapps/nodebb/node_modules/mongodb-core/lib/topologies/server.js:336:35)\n at Pool.emit (events.js:196:13)\n at Connection.<anonymous> (/home/forum/webapps/nodebb/node_modules/mongodb-core/lib/connection/pool.js:280:12)\n at Object.onceWrapper (events.js:284:20)\n at Connection.emit (events.js:196:13)\n at Socket.<anonymous> (/home/forum/webapps/nodebb/node_modules/mongodb-core/lib/connection/connection.js:189:49)\n at Object.onceWrapper (events.js:284:20)\n at Socket.emit (events.js:196:13)\n at emitErrorNT (internal/streams/destroy.js:91:8)\n at emitErrorAndCloseNT (internal/streams/destroy.js:59:3)","exception":true,"date":"Fri May 24 2019 22:31:32 GMT+0200 (Central European Summer Time)","process":{"pid":10753,"uid":1003,"gid":100,"cwd":"/home/forum/webapps/nodebb","execPath":"/usr/local/bin/node","version":"v12.1.0","argv":["/usr/local/bin/node","/home/forum/webapps/nodebb/app.js"],"memoryUsage":{"rss":145326080,"heapTotal":101863424,"heapUsed":67882440,"external":37486265}},"os":{"loadavg":[0.060546875,0.142578125,0.166015625],"uptime":33249},"trace":[{"column":26,"file":"dns.js","function":"GetAddrInfoReqWrap.onlookup [as oncomplete]","line":60,"method":"onlookup [as oncomplete]","native":false},{"column":35,"file":"/home/forum/webapps/nodebb/node_modules/mongodb-core/lib/topologies/server.js","function":null,"line":336,"method":null,"native":false},{"column":13,"file":"events.js","function":"Pool.emit","line":196,"method":"emit","native":false},{"column":12,"file":"/home/forum/webapps/nodebb/node_modules/mongodb-core/lib/connection/pool.js","function":null,"line":280,"method":null,"native":false},{"column":20,"file":"events.js","function":"Object.onceWrapper","line":284,"method":"onceWrapper","native":false},{"column":13,"file":"events.js","function":"Connection.emit","line":196,"method":"emit","native":false},{"column":49,"file":"/home/forum/webapps/nodebb/node_modules/mongodb-core/lib/connection/connection.js","function":null,"line":189,"method":null,"native":false},{"column":20,"file":"events.js","function":"Object.onceWrapper","line":284,"method":"onceWrapper","native":false},{"column":13,"file":"events.js","function":"Socket.emit","line":196,"method":"emit","native":false},{"column":8,"file":"internal/streams/destroy.js","function":"emitErrorNT","line":91,"method":null,"native":false},{"column":3,"file":"internal/streams/destroy.js","function":"emitErrorAndCloseNT","line":59,"method":null,"native":false}]} 2019-05-24T20:31:32.180Z [/home/forum/webapps//nodebb.sock/10753] - error: failed to connect to server [%2Ftmp%2Fmongodb-1033.sock:27017] on first connect [Error: getaddrinfo ENOTFOUND %2Ftmp%2Fmongodb-1033.sock at GetAddrInfoReqWrap.onlookup [as oncomplete] (dns.js:60:26) { name: 'MongoError', message: 'getaddrinfo ENOTFOUND %2Ftmp%2Fmongodb-1033.sock' }] {"name":"MongoError"} 2019-05-24T20:31:32.181Z [/home/forum/webapps//nodebb.sock/10753] - info: [app] Shutdown (SIGTERM/SIGINT) Initialised. 2019-05-24T20:31:32.182Z [/home/forum/webapps//nodebb.sock/10753] - error: Server is not running.

The error suggests a 404 page may be getting served, try going to that url, what do you see?

Perhaps you need to rebuild NodeBB?

It's possible, but not easy. There are a few options:

create a theme for NodeBB, render NodeBB in an iframe and embed that in your page render NodeBB templates in an angular component and embed that in your page interface directly with the NodeBB rest API, creating a frontend in angular

@scottalanmiller said in MongoDB crashes sometimes:

I know it has been a while, but what did your investigation find?

Ha! I was just about to necro bump this thread to query same 😉

@julian Cool thanks, yea poor ns-embed is not happy in 1.12.2 - I and others already flagged in that thread, still, A Great plugin!

👌 Ok SMTP/EMAIL is fixed!

Some deeper DNS/MX work seems to have made the difference and using "encrypted" setting - initially I was using StartTLS as per email provider SMTP guide, which specified TLS - tested it again and StartTLS broke it.

Encrypted works.

Hope your backups are good 😄

I'd recommend setting up static file serving on nginx, but I bet you do that already.

It's a little difficult to explain, but at a high level, we're a single page app, which means when you click on an anchor, we request the JSON for the new page, render the html on the user browser, empty everything in #content, and inject it into #content. The overlay is a transition that makes this process a little smoother.

We use a templating engine called Benchpress to render templates on both server and client-side.

Got me scared there for a sec 😄