On which folder should I install plug ins ?

meetdilip

Currently the terminal in Ubuntu shows : root@techiewiz:~#

all my npm installs including search, smilies were not visible in the plugin listing in Admin CP. Can anyone guide me with commands to go to proper path and install these plugins + kitchen sink & youtube embed ?

a_5mith

cd path/to/nodebb/folder then do the npm install command in there. (assuming you followed the install instructions and have npm installed)

meetdilip

@a_5mith

How can I find the the path to corresponding folder ? Normally, under which name/path does it appear ?

a_5mith

Which guide did you follow to install? In the root folder you're currently in, type ls, do you see nodebb or mynodebb something like that?

meetdilip

@a_5mith said:

ls

I see this

root@techiewiz:~# ls
dotdeb.gpg nginx_signing.key node_modules tmp webmin_1.680_all.deb

meetdilip

@a_5mith Are you on Ubuntu ? Shall I give you remote access ? Will be nice if you can help.

a_5mith

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meetdilip

@julian Help please.

meetdilip

@a_5mith I could get kitchen-sink installed and activated from plug in. But the editor remains the same. Any idea why ?

kimikelku

Do you remember on what folder you installed nodebb? The folder were you install nodebb is the folder were you will install the plugins and every other stuff.

meetdilip

npm install nodebb-plugin-dbsearch

After running above command, the site is not loading at all. I used home/nodebb/nodebb . Kitchen sink got installed and I activated it from ACP. Nothing happened though. Then I tried above command now I cannot access neither front end nor ACP.

@kimikelku

a_5mith

What happens when you do cd home/nodebb/nodebb?

anton

weiss ich nicht

meetdilip

@a_5mith said:

What happens when you do cd home/nodebb/nodebb?

root@techiewiz:~# cd home/nodebb/nodebb
-bash: cd: home/nodebb/nodebb: No such file or directory

meetdilip

Getting this error log when trying to start NodeBB

root@techiewiz:~# npm start
npm ERR! Error: ENOENT, open '/root/package.json'
npm ERR! at Error (native)
npm ERR! If you need help, you may report this entire log,
npm ERR! including the npm and node versions, at:
npm ERR! http://github.com/npm/npm/issues

npm ERR! System Linux 3.2.0-4-amd64
npm ERR! command "/usr/local/bin/node" "/usr/local/bin/npm" "start"
npm ERR! cwd /root
npm ERR! node -v v0.11.13-pre
npm ERR! npm -v 1.4.6
npm ERR! path /root/package.json
npm ERR! code ENOENT
npm ERR! errno -2
npm ERR!
npm ERR! Additional logging details can be found in:
npm ERR! /root/npm-debug.log
npm ERR! not ok code 0

kimikelku

@meetdilip said:

@a_5mith said:

What happens when you do cd home/nodebb/nodebb?

root@techiewiz:~# cd home/nodebb/nodebb
-bash: cd: home/nodebb/nodebb: No such file or directory

If you do cd home/something/something he will first try to look for the folder home, so if you're not in the root it won't find that folder, you need to had this / before home so he can start looking for that folder in the root, like this: cd /home/nodebb/nodebb and then do this to disable the plugins ./nodebb reset plugins.

psychobunny

root@techiewiz:~# npm start

it's actually ./nodebb start

meetdilip

@kimikelku said:

@meetdilip said:

@a_5mith said:

What happens when you do cd home/nodebb/nodebb?

root@techiewiz:~# cd home/nodebb/nodebb
-bash: cd: home/nodebb/nodebb: No such file or directory

If you do cd home/something/something he will first try to look for the folder home, so if you're not in the root it won't find that folder, you need to had this / before home so he can start looking for that folder in the root, like this: cd /home/nodebb/nodebb and then do this to disable the plugins ./nodebb reset plugins.

Life saver. My board is back online. Thanks a lot @kimikelku and others who helped.

meetdilip

@psychobunny said:

root@techiewiz:~# npm start

it's actually ./nodebb start

Alternatively, you may use npm start and npm stop to do the same.

Found it here : https://github.com/designcreateplay/NodeBB/wiki/How-to-run-NodeBB

meetdilip

I am still at bay on installing the search add on. It is in my plugin list. But afraid whether it will kill my forum again. Any suggestions are always welcome.