My site was there --- and then was gone
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It's down again. It was doing well. It made it through a restart and set itself back up.
I installed the Forever Service --
but now its down again. Forever service isnt starting it, ./nodebb start isn't starting it.
I was just about to work on getting the site onto a domain - and then it was gone
http://107.170.196.59:4567
What is causing it to drop off like that, and what can I do to stop it? -
i haven't used it much because I can't right click/paste into it.
So, I did that, went into the correct directory and did as you said and it still says servers unavailable
edit it wont recognize the commands if I log in as other than root - not sure if that is the norm. -
Yes, that would be great. ugh... have to do it again? lol this hurts my brain
I also want to install it into a domain this time. Is that able to be done while installing it? Or is there something else I have to do. I might as well just destroy the other droplet and create new.
(Digital Ocean said I should be using a larger package for the NodeBB - but I had read that the 512 would be enough, especially with not having a user base) -
The issue you're seeing is because of the emailer-mandrill plugin. It appears to be for a different version to what you're running. You can run
./nodebb reset nodebb-plugin-emailer-mandrill
Then start the forum. Also in your config.json you have supplied a password, but not put the same password into redis.conf in /etc/redis/. It doesn't matter, but if you want to secure your forum, put a password on Redis.
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@a_5mith do you have a suggestion for keeping the site online? Should I reinstall Forever Service? (which seems different than the Forever Daemon suggested here https://docs.nodebb.org/en/latest/running/ ) - right now ill deal with the mandrill - it was an optional plug in in the ACP so I thought it would be good to install it
still won't come up
wasn't sure whether to use ./nodebb start or node app - tried both.
./nodebb start seems to indicate the process went fine but still down.
node app gave me this:
I think I'll just delete the droplet again.
ill create a new user -sudo and install it in that directory.