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You'll need to kill the process manually. Look up how to kill node process on the search engine of your choice

Your DNS records aren't set up correctly.

You don't need to put it in public_html. It makes no difference.

I don't know if you need to get rid of the domain folder, but you do need to set up the reverse proxy.

In the documentation I linked, at the end it talks about reverse proxying with nginx. I don't know what donation folders are, but if you're taking about Apache virtual servers, I'm pretty sure reverse proxying has nothing to do with that.

NodeBB works differently from other forums. It has it's own web server, it doesn't rely on Apache + PHP.

I suggest you use our docs if possible:

Ubuntu (Recommended) - NodeBB Documentation

Please don't ping everyone like that.

Did you restart after editing config.json?

What do you mean by "transfer additional info"?

Passing @psychobunny as he's the expert

What are the privileges set for the category and globally? A screenshot would be helpful.