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Hi,
We have successfully deployed NodeBB on 1 machine with 3 NodeBB processes on the same machine at different and using nginx to load balance between the 3. We are using MongoDB as the database, and have also setup redis for inter-process communication.

Now we plan to add another machine to further increase user capacity. Both machines will have 3 NodeBB processes each. We have the following questions:

Do we start the NodeBB processes on the machine 2 and have the same redis server in the config so the processes can communicate? Do we set isCluster to true? How do we make a MongoDB replica? Do we add the IPs of both mongo instances in the config file of nodebb on both machines?

Any help will be appreciated. Thanks!

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@omega well I do pride myself on a well stocked fridge but maybe not that well stocked :rofl:

@[email protected] hello! Unfortunately I'm busy this coming Tuesday but would be interested to chat about doing something in the future. Something I should be clear about first though is that I'm not involved in Podcamp Toronto or really in the podcasting community at all these days. I ended my last podcast around 2010, so most of my direct experience really is "historical" lol.

You're welcome. Please spread the word about NodeBB in your country. Thank you.

Just as an update, (incase anyone else has this problem), chatgtp was quite good sorting out, and removing older versions, and said:

The naming difference between node and nodejs primarily stems from historical reasons and package management conventions.
In some Linux distributions, including Debian and its derivatives like Ubuntu, the package for Node.js is named nodejs to avoid a conflict with another package called node. This node package is unrelated to Node.js and is used for a different purpose.
The naming convention was introduced to prevent potential conflicts between Node.js and the unrelated node package. However, this led to confusion for users accustomed to using the node command to execute Node.js scripts. To address this confusion, symbolic links or alternatives are often used to allow the node command to point to the nodejs executable.
While the naming convention can indeed be confusing, it's a result of the need to avoid conflicts and maintain compatibility with existing packages. Efforts have been made to streamline this naming difference in newer versions of Node.js, but it may still persist in certain distributions and setups.

@Rajeev-Kumar

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Are you sure you want to use Apache web server? Even lightweight nginx working as reverse proxy can be easily overloaded with normal traffic. And you will see a result like this. Similar to attacking php-based forum with ddos-bots traffic.

Bluescreen rate-limiting high traffic will help to reduce server load so you want to leave it as it is.

A better idea is to install firewall or similar software to deny traffic from problematic IPs/countries/etc.

@Mia-smith said in Need suggestion: Experiencing Persistent API Error:

I also check this : https://community.nodebb.org/topic/17758/error-permission-for-opt-config-nodebb-in-installing-with-dockerlooker But I have not found any solution.

Do you have any other problems with your Docker install? For example NodeBB can show all users IPs as localhost if server ports are blocked (communication between Docker app and host machine).

It worked OK and stopped working?

After searching and reading documentation, I found that, csrf token not created in my situation.

Hi,

I'm wondering if it is possible (maybe by Plugin) to add special "Labels" to posts, like these ...

Good/Bad Shape of Post Good/Bad Spelling of Post Excellent Post Impolite Disrespectful Missing Basic Post Requirements Escalating / De-Escalating Post

Connected with every such label is a detailed description what this Label is meaning.

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Missing Basic Post Requirements

If you came here because someone flagged your post with this label, you are asked to do the following:

Read this text carefully Fix your post in all stated attributes Be aware that your reputation score may suffer, if you do not fix this If you fixed your post, you may ask a moderator for feedback and finally to remove the label, if resolved.

For a post in a technical forum like this one here, please take care of the following:

Spelling: Use correct spelling and grammar. Write in full sentences. Shape: Create your post, so one can easily read it. Use paragraphs, clear language, maybe use headers. Informations: Supply concrete Informations about your problem Facts: Supply entered commands and output given by those commands. Supply Screenshots only if text based information is not available or Screenshots are more useful in your case than text Politeness: Uphold Politeness at all times. No abusive words. Request: Phrase a request, how others can help you here. What do you want?

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Starting from 5 own posts flagged with this label, every further post with this label reduces reputation score by 1

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@julian I look forward to the day when this part of NodeBB is released.

@julian Yes, I have a lot of examples. I was thinking I would work through Harmony and submit PRs to it. Seems like the right thing to do. However, if you want to see for yourself, I think you should run this forum through the sitechecker.pro, it is very illuminating. In the last few weeks, I have learned a lot about how pages are viewed and processed by analytics platforms. For now, I have turned off analysis of my forum so I can hit my target score for the rest of my site. When I spin it up again, I will provide more details. I am also learning what portions of the forum I should hide from analyis/spiders.

@baris addressed one issue I found last week.

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@baris is this update to Harmony published already? And, do I just run an upgrade with npm or ./nodebb?

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The other thing, front of mind, is there are some "category" links somewhere, and it appears to be a partial "/category/" which is a 404; my guess is that it receives context on click.

Canonical URLs are having some issues pretty broadly.

Page meta-tag descriptions are the same for almost every page.

Social Graph data has overlapping issues with the above two issues.

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@frontendjulien It's this one:

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It's been awhile, and it only imports a forum to an older version of NodeBB, but upgrading afterwards is pretty straightforward.

Otherwise I would still recommend contacting Lincoln Russell to see if he's interested in helping you out.

It is published you can get it with npm i nodebb-theme-harmony@latest then rebuild & restart.

TIL pressing F5 in notepad will insert the Time & Date stamp. Which is nice, so probably I'll just write a script for myself to automate the timestamp insertion as it should not be dynamically on site loading/refreshing - also performance wise it might lead to issues. Don't know if there is a way to add this functionality to the composer though - similiar like for the emojis. If there is a comprehensive guide to do so or at least to get started with it I'll add it to my todo-if-too-much-time list. 😉

@schajuli no issues.

@baris Last warning or error message from output log is - Failed to fetch latest version error - rate limit exceeded
Community works well when users at least 10. If more CPU rises up to 100 and very slow loading or 503 error

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