Widget pages missing after NodeBB migration

PitaJ

What theme are you using, and what version? What version of NodeBB and Node.js? Were there any errors when running those commands I gave?

On a fresh install of NodeBB 1.18.6 with Persona 11.2.22, I see all of the expected templates:

phenomlab

@kurulumu-net have you installed the extended NodeBB widgets plugin ?

kurulumu.Net

@phenomlab yes I installed the widget plugin. @PitaJ I am using NodeJS 14 and MongoDB 5. I'm guessing that the latest updated data is being loaded from the nodebb repository because I have zero installation.

PitaJ

@kurulumu-net what do you mean by "zero installation"?

We need to know what theme you're using and what version of NodeBB. Please provide the output of

./nodebb info
./nodebb plugins

kurulumu.Net

@pitaj

./nodebb info
2021-11-23T06:58:20.188Z [4567/111870] - verbose: [minifier] utilizing a maximum of 0 additional threads


version:  1.18.6
Node ver: v14.18.1
git hash: 22e74dc0bb9cf296f548ad3b67ba1d297e4a7dc1

database: mongo
      version: 5.0.4
      engine:  wiredTiger

Active plugins:
        * [email protected] (installed, enabled)
        * [email protected] (installed, disabled)
        * [email protected] (installed, disabled)
        * [email protected] (installed, enabled)
        * [email protected] (installed, enabled)
        * [email protected] (installed, enabled)
        * [email protected] (installed, disabled)
        * [email protected] (installed, enabled)
        * [email protected] (installed, disabled)
        * [email protected] (installed, disabled)
        * [email protected] (installed, disabled)
        * [email protected] (installed, disabled)
        * [email protected] (installed, enabled)

persona themes appear disabled. I run the ./nodebb activate nodebb-theme-personacommand to activate it, but it does not activate.

By fresh install I mean this: I have the database and assets files. I have installed the necessary components like mongo db nodejs npm, nginx on the new server. I imported the database and reinstalled nodebb. I entered the information of the database I imported in the Nodebb installation steps.

Nodebb LOG:

Hit Ctrl-C to exit


    at processTicksAndRejections (internal/process/task_queues.js:83:21)
2021-11-23T06:57:49.955Z [4567/111807] - info: [app] Shutdown (SIGTERM/SIGINT) Initialised.
2021-11-23T06:57:49.960Z [4567/111807] - error: Error [ERR_SERVER_NOT_RUNNING]: Server is not running.
    at new NodeError (internal/errors.js:322:7)
    at Server.close (net.js:1624:12)
    at Object.onceWrapper (events.js:519:28)
    at Server.emit (events.js:412:35)
    at emitCloseNT (net.js:1677:8)
    at processTicksAndRejections (internal/process/task_queues.js:81:21)
3 restarts in 10 seconds, most likely an error on startup. Halting.

kurulumu.Net

I finally solved it. But I had to re-install with root user. I couldn't get results with normal user. Thread can be marked as solved.

PitaJ

You shouldn't need to install as root, and installing as root can cause problems down the line.

I can't think of any reason root would make a difference unless the directory you're installing to had some weird permissions or you used sudo or root for some of the installation.

Have you tried a fresh installation without an existing database and assets files?

What are you referring to by assets files? What are you doing to restore them?

gotwf

@kurulumu-net said in Widget pages missing after NodeBB migration:

But I had to re-install with root user.

Ill advised. Have you tried recursively chown'ing all the nodebb files?

chown -R nodebb:nodebb /opt/nodebb

kurulumu.Net

@pitaj said in Widget pages missing after NodeBB migration:

Varlık dosyalarıyla

tar -czf ~/nodebb_assets.tar.gz ./uploads

the files you get when you run the above command.

What I have are: the database with mongodump and the contents of the uploads folder.

Now I will try to change the owner of the site with NodeBB installed. I have no idea if this would be a problem with the root user being moved to a different user after installation.

kurulumu.Net

I discovered that the failed restore was due to the persona theme not showing up as active in the database. In the example I installed with the root user, since the persona theme is now active, I have now re-installed with the normal user and everything is fine.

phenomlab

@kurulumu-net Welcome back sir