ACP parent-category picker not working
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@a_5mith I did not upgrade, but did a fresh install on my local as follows:
git clone https://github.com/NodeBB/NodeBB.git nodebb
sudo npm install
./nodebb setup
./nodebb startwhen I go to ACP to add parent-category for a category - it did popup a window show a list of categories -- however when i click on of the category (anyone) - not response..
Now I tried to install the 0.5.1 release code, here is what i did:
wget https://github.com/NodeBB/NodeBB/archive/v0.5.1.zip
unzip v0.5.1.zip
cd NodeBB-0.5.1/
sudo npm install
./nodebb setup
./nodebb starti cleaned browser cache. also I did "flushall" on redis database before I run nodebb setup.
i assume i do not need to do git pull the vanilla theme.
this time when i go to ACP category - it show a blank page, even though the home page show 12 categores.
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@miluo Looks like you've got two nodebb folders now then, one called
nodebb, and another calledNodeBB-0.5.1.The official method for pulling stable is
git clone -b v0.5.x https://github.com/NodeBB/NodeBB.git nodebbThe actual files look fine, I would imagine that when you flushed the database (not a required step), it may have deleted the categories. When you ran nodebb setup a second time, did it ask you to create an admin again?
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@a_5mith
(1)yes it did ask me to provide admin name, password. i provided it.
(2) yes I have 2 folders. but i shutted down the nodebb process from one folder ～／nodebb , and from ~/nodebb-0.5.1 i did: nodebb start.
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@miluo For a fresh install,
npm installis sufficient. I wasn't sure if you'd upgraded or if it was a new install.
I'll mention @julian into this topic as he'll have a better idea on what could have gone wrong with your install.
You could try running
git checkout v0.5.xthengit pullin your nodebb-0.5.1 folder. Then restarting nodebb with./nodebb restart. That would ensure you were actually on a stable branch. Then we can work from there with any other issues you may be encountering. -
@miluo said:
@a_5mith @a_5mith thanks. now nothing works...
do me a favour -- assuming i am new to NodeBB, and today I want to install fresh and run the stable working version of NodeBB locally. what's the exact steps i should follow? thanks.Hmm, odd, assuming you're running Ubuntu, this: https://docs.nodebb.org/en/latest/installing/os/ubuntu.html
If you're not running Ubuntu, you will find guides for other distros on the left hand side.
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@a_5mith Thank you for help. yes i am using ubuntu. I followed the exact steps.
this time everything looks good. i can login as admin, and header looks normal.
howvere when i go to ACP manage category -- i still got the same problem as before -- it's empty.... it should show those default 12 categories ,,,,,,,,
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@julian thanks for the hint- yes i resize it show up. but i still notice some issue - after i click one category from the category picker window, the chose category didn't show in the parent category field. after i refresh the page, it then show up. but not a big issue.
i have a suggestion --- instead of using a popup menu window for a list of all categories, maybe just use a auto-complete text box to allow user to type in the category name.... this will be much simple when we have many categories (i.e more than 30....).
Thanks.
I should backport that fix...