How to install NodeBB on Debian 8 (jessie)?
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Try to use the guide for Debian 7. Much should be the same! If you run into specific error you can ask here
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@Jenkler Okay thanks. I didn't know what to do since it says "ONLY Debian 7" and I'm kind of new to all this. So I just followed the documenation until the "clone this repository" step (which did not work, because there is no such directory ("or file"). Here the errors from the other steps:
perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
LANGUAGE = (unset),
LC_ALL = (unset),
LC_CTYPE = "UTF-8",
LANG = "de_DE.UTF-8"
are supported and installed on your system.
perl: warning: Falling back to a fallback locale ("de_DE.UTF-8").
locale: Cannot set LC_CTYPE to default locale: No such file or directorydpkg: error processing package redis-server (--configure):
subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.19-18+deb8u4) ...
Processing triggers for libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0:amd64 (2.31.1-2+deb8u5) ...
Processing triggers for systemd (215-17+deb8u4) ...
Errors were encountered while processing:
redis-server
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)cd /path/to/nodebb/install/location
-bash: cd: /path/to/nodebb/install/location: file or directory not foundI hope someone can help me here. Thank you very much! I'd love to run nodebb!
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You're actually supposed to create a directory. Assuming you are a regular user and don't need multiple nodebbs, the home directory should work fine. (that's what i use)
cd ~ git clone -b v1.x.x https://github.com/NodeBB/NodeBB.git nodebb -
I'm not really sure, never seen those errors. But it seems to only have failed on a post-installation script for redis-server. So it might still work.
tbh, you probably want to remove the redis-server package and install it from source. This is the method I see recommended the most.
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@yariplus You're right, it's running now although I got these errors.
However, I still have to use port 4567 instead of a sheer domain name. Tried to follow this tutorial: https://docs.nodebb.org/en/latest/configuring/proxies/nginx.html
Nginx in my case was installed through plesk and I can't find the config file nor do I know about possible consequences/effects on my other sites hosted on the same server via plesk. Any suggestion on how to proceed to be able to remove the port? Thanks!
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If you use NGinx for the other websites that you host, and when you want to install it to a subdomain which is not being used now, there will not be no problems using that tutorial. Make a new file (so do not use the default setup, or an alias that is already there) at
/etc/nginx/sites-availableand a softlink to/etc/nginx/sites-enabledtouch /etc/nginx/sites-available/nodebbforum ln -s /etc/nginx/sites-available/example.com /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/nodebbforumYou can use the setup of the tutorial then by changing the file
/etc/nginx/sites-available/nodebbforum. Make sure thatserver_nameis set to the correct subdomain. -
@JasperNL There are no such directories as "sites-available" or "sites-enabled" there. I forgot to mention: Plesk installed the newest version of NGinx: 1.11.1.
By the way, me being relatively new to this kind of work: How come "ls -al" is not showing me the "etc" directory in the root although I can access it via "cd"?
Thank you very much for your help!
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@Hillcow Sites-available and sites-enabed does only exist if you install the nginx from the OS repository if you install from any other repository you will only have conf.d which is a good place to put your configuration with the small change that the files in there need to end with .conf extensions.
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this should work for you, you should've mentioned you are using plesk on the server early on
since it completely changes how apache2/nginx configuration works
https://community.nodebb.org/topic/9215/running-nodebb-with-plesk-tips
