How to completely remove NodeBB?

Henry Wright

I'd like to completely remove NodeBB (delete everything such as files, database etc). My aim is to install NodeBB again from scratch.

Does anyone know how this can be done? Or perhaps there's an article already available that you can point me to?

Thanks in advance.

Robert

Completely removing the NodeBB instalation is quite easy, you can remove NodeBB by deleting its folder its hosted in. Then going to your Redis or MongoDB location (Depending on what you use) and deleting the database, beware if you have any other databases on Redis or MongoDB,

Henry Wright

@Kowlin Thanks for this info! Removing the NodeBB folder does sound simple. I can probably work out how to do that part

Regarding deleting Redis, any idea how that can be done? I have just one Redis database on my server.

Robert

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julian

To drop a redis database, redis-cli -n {DB#} flushdn

Henry Wright

@julian Thanks, that command helps

Henry Wright

So I've now:

Deleted the NodeBB folder
Dropped the Redis database

Is there anything else I should remove?

julian

Nope, that's it.

Henry Wright

@julian Thanks, although I'm confused as to why I still see the maintenance page (X is currently undergoing maintenance. Please come back another time.) when I visit my domain example.com?

julian

Perhaps your NodeBB is still running in memory

pkill -9 node to kill all node.js processes.

Henry Wright

@julian I now get a 502 bad gateway message from Nginx (which I think is what I should be seeing). Thanks for all your help

schajuli

@julian said in How to completely remove NodeBB?:

Perhaps your NodeBB is still running in memory

pkill -9 node to kill all node.js processes.

What's the trick on windows? Can't remove the .js files as access is denied and no processes are running.

julian

Reboot your computer

Ha ha just kidding, I would imagine you can probably kill off NodeBB using the task manager, but someone else would have to confirm.