Please help me, I can't install
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Please help me, help me install, I provide the server account password.Please help me, help me install, I provide the server account password. My operating system is Ubuntu 22.04
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I'm assuming you are on a VPS?
I've only installed one site using NodeBB, but it did not seem that hard. I'm about to head off to a nap (been up for 28 hours) or I'd volunteer to help you immediately.
If you can't find anyone in the next 10-12 hours hit me up and I can probably help out as long as it is just a simple install of NodeBB and using nginx as the proxy. If you have CloudFlare in front of it that you will have to take care of yourself most likely, but there is not that much to it. -
Okay, thank you very much. I need your help.
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I need help now, can you help me now.
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No, I had to take a nap. I'm back up now and will be for a few hours if you still need help. You can start a chat with me here - or at least I assume you can.
Is there also a reason you are using 22.04 instead of 24.40LTS? 22.04LTS loses support in a few months.
So if you have no other sites set up on that server instance, you may want to do a fresh install of 24.04LTS. -
@Tracy Thats good of you to offer to help.
But as often happens, when responding to someones desperate plea for help, they then go quiet lol
I'm naming it 'Nodes Law' haha.My question is on the irony, you have a Xenforo help forum using Nodebb not Xenforo.
That must make sense in some universe!
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@eeeee said in Please help me, I can't install:
That must make sense in some universe!
For your main Astronomy website do you find Xenforo has and advantages over Nodebb?Main reason that the site admin settled on it (it was on SMF prior to now) was that the site is not that concerned with validating users for valid XF licenses. And some of the people involved have butted heads with Xenforo developers (including me) in the past and under the current XF license it gave an opening to revoking the license in that it could be claimed to violate their terms:
You undertake to ensure that the Software is not used by You or others to engage in or promote: illegal activity; any activity that would violate the rights of third parties; defamation, discrimination, harassment, hatred or harm of third parties.
If they did, that would be almost $200 flushed down the drain, so it's easier to find a solid platform to offer support on. And due to past history nobody involved in the site overly trusts them.
For your main Astronomy website do you find Xenforo has and advantages over Nodebb?
As for the Astronomy site, yes. There are several 3rd party add-ons along with 1st party in use there that have no equivalency in NodeBB and would be extremely difficult to create most likely.
Just a quick list:
Resource Manager
Gallery
Review System
Classifieds system
Link Directory
Social groups (with their own calendar and discussion areas)
Showcase (to show off your equipment)Then you have the dependence in several areas of custom fields that are used.
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Interesting. I find that on many paid sites, (over all fields), that when a company has your money then they can be unresponsive (at best) and interfering at worse. Its one reason I prefer open source things.
Because its such a big task to continually develop forum software, Im kind of impressed that Xenforo have done so well on features (like you describe). Because although they have money coming in, they must limit their development to inhouse contributions only.
I also think less is more sometimes, any extra features need more maintenance, and can introduce more bugs..
so I feel additional features have to be useful to say more than 10% of users, to be worth the overhead to have.When Nodebb v4 has ActivityPub then this (to me) will be a big bonus over other forums. Do you think Xenforo will implement this?
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@eeeee said in Please help me, I can't install:
When v4 has Activitypub then this (to me) will be a big bonus over other forums. Do you think Xenforo will implement this?
There have been requests for the revamping of their "Whats New" function for several years. The "What's New" function on XF is sorely dated.
Strangely, for some reason the XF developers seem to be stuck in a mid early 2010 design rut. Some of the stuff may require them to increase their minimum PHP version limits - but that is not something they want to do as it might drive off a noticeable segment of their license holders that are still using legacy shared hosting providers that still are not offering the newer versions of PHP. So instead of just putting their foot down and saying that the minimum will be 8.x, they work around the issues of having to keep backwards compatibility, frequently at the cost of the ability to move forward.The problem with XF (and what caused some of to be in some hot water from complaining about it) was that for the past several years they made very few QOL improvements (those that benefit the end user) and concentrated on making it easier on the Admins and developers. Granted, that is important, but it's not the admins and developers that keep a site alive, it's those end users that QOL improvements can make happy.
Im kind of impressed that Xenforo have done so well on features (like you describe)
Several of those features are not Xenforo offered. They come from 3rd party developers and are paid. One of the things you will see XF admins hoot about is the cost being only $195 compared to $499 for Invision. The thing they sadly forget is for that $195 you are only getting a forum. For that $499 from Invision you are getting an entire suite, including Pages which is a fantastic add-on.
My site cost me almost $1000 just in software purchase cost to get to where it is and runs about $400 a year to keep the licenses active.One of the things that surprises me about NodeBB is how nice it is, especially for the "cost".
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@Tracy Here's how to send a message to you
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@Tracy I can't see your private chats.
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You should be able to click on the speech bubble on the right side of the screen (if on desktop, don't know where on mobile) to see it.
As I mentioned in the chat, I'm off to bed again so need to figure out a time that we can get into chat and set it up as it does not need to be done in this area. I am in the US (Texas Central time) and will probably be back up around 3PM-4PM today. -
Do you have a discord, we discord private message
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Yeah... astro_what_04309
I'll be on for about 5 minutes then off to bed. -
@Tracy Do you have a discord, we discord private message, here it shows that I don't have permission to view your messages.
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I think it's actually astro_what_forum
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@phenomlab said in Please help me, I can't install:
@abcabc123 https://sudonix.org/topic/693/please-help-me-i-can-t-install-nodebb
They are getting help, but if they want to go there that will work also. I'm about to head off to bed after dealing with it for a few hours already and getting slow responses.
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@Tracy yes, I too have seen similar over on Sudonix. I've put myself forward but yet to have any response.
