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This is expected behavior. After installing and activating a plugin, you are supposed to Rebuild & Restart. There's a special button in the ACP to perform this.

Okay here's how I've interpreted the sequence of events:

1. You install plugin from ACP
2. You restart NodeBB
3. You try to access plugin page but it doesn't work
4. You perform a rebuild
5. Then you can access the plugin page

Is that correct? You only have to rebuild once for each time you install a plugin?

Please share more about your setup.

Installing plugins and themes doesn't work the same on heroku as it does on other servers. You can't just use the ACP to install them because of the way heroku resets. Instead you must install the plugins and themes before pushing the code up to heroku.

This is why it shows that your theme is activated. The database is persisted across resets of your heroku server. But since the built assets directory in the git repository were created under persona, it resets to that.

Have you tried a rebuild and restart?

Please share more about your setup. Are you running multiple instances?

Try clearing your browser cache or trying a different browser.

It's ./nodebb, not nodebb. The ./ is necessary.

What you're going to want is two server blocks. One with only server_name mywebsite.com;, with your normal site and NodeBB stuff, with SSL. The other with server_name www.mywebsite.com; that only has a return 301 https://mywebsite.com$request_uri;