Need help with domain / nodebb installation

[John Cole]

Hi all.
I want to install NodeBB forum at my site.

I have a question about this.

At installation guides all says that need install nodeBB to opt/...

But how about domain dir?
Forum will be not in domain directory (public_html) ?

How i need to install this? i want my forum to be at mydomain.com without mydomain.com:4567 or 8.8.8.8:4567

I worked with multiple forums (phpbb / xenforo / vbulletin) but i cant understand how nodeBB need to be installed.

Help me please.

I use apache and nginx. (front/backend).

[PitaJ]

NodeBB works differently from other forums. It has it's own web server, it doesn't rely on Apache + PHP.

I suggest you use our docs if possible:

https://docs.nodebb.org/installing/os/ubuntu/

[John Cole]

@pitaj but how about domain folders?they will be empty? how to bind it.

[PitaJ]

In the documentation I linked, at the end it talks about reverse proxying with nginx. I don't know what donation folders are, but if you're taking about Apache virtual servers, I'm pretty sure reverse proxying has nothing to do with that.

[John Cole]

@pitaj And i need to delete DOMAIN folder ? and do proxy?

[PitaJ]

I don't know if you need to get rid of the domain folder, but you do need to set up the reverse proxy.