[Solved] Cannot change settings
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Hi!
I have followed NodeBB for some time now (it's an awesome project!) and currently I am in need for some good and modern forum software. I choose NodeBB. So I installed a fresh copy of 0.4.3 and wanted to go ahead and configure it.
But unfortunately, I cannot change the settings or upload anything, just like the other admins here. Since you said it might be a theme related problem, I changed the theme to lavender in ACP (it said I should restart NodeBB). I restarted NodeBB (./nodebb restart
), but the theme did not change.Is there a workaround for now or will I need to wait for a hotfix?
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In
node_modules/your-theme-name/package.json
Make sure the theme's name matches the directory that you have it in. If it's set to
nodebb-theme-vanilla
, I could see there being a problem@psychobunny Good morning, no that's not the problem. The theme is properly configured. I also have the same problem on a new install in which I haven't modified anything yet. It looks like the buttons in the admin don't trigger anything.
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Hi!
I have followed NodeBB for some time now (it's an awesome project!) and currently I am in need for some good and modern forum software. I choose NodeBB. So I installed a fresh copy of 0.4.3 and wanted to go ahead and configure it.
But unfortunately, I cannot change the settings or upload anything, just like the other admins here. Since you said it might be a theme related problem, I changed the theme to lavender in ACP (it said I should restart NodeBB). I restarted NodeBB (./nodebb restart
), but the theme did not change.Is there a workaround for now or will I need to wait for a hotfix?
@Marco any luck?
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@Marco any luck?
@Giorgio-Chiodi no, unfortunately I only found more things which don't work. I did not change anything. I just installed it. Even without plugins, I cannot make it work. It's really frustrating.
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@Giorgio-Chiodi no, unfortunately I only found more things which don't work. I did not change anything. I just installed it. Even without plugins, I cannot make it work. It's really frustrating.
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@Giorgio-Chiodi A bug would effect everyone, the ACP works fine for me, it's not a bug when it only effects you.
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@Giorgio-Chiodi A bug would effect everyone, the ACP works fine for me, it's not a bug when it only effects you.
@a_5mith A bug might not effect everyone. It might depend on certain configurations or combinations of other software. For example @Giorgio-Chiodi might have MongoDB, like I do, while you have Redis (I dunno, this is just an example). This difference alone might be enough to trigger a serious bug!
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@Giorgio-Chiodi A bug would effect everyone, the ACP works fine for me, it's not a bug when it only effects you.
@a_5mith it's a brand new install. No plugins. It's a bug.
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@Giorgio-Chiodi no, unfortunately I only found more things which don't work. I did not change anything. I just installed it. Even without plugins, I cannot make it work. It's really frustrating.
@Marco Ciao, are you using redis as a database?
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@Marco Ciao, are you using redis as a database?
@Giorgio-Chiodi nope, I had a problem with Redis, so I use MongoDB. I also use a proxy (NGINX) which I configured according to the wiki so that I can use Port 80 for all incoming traffic to the server (PHP, Node,...)
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@julian @baris @psychobunny @Giorgio-Chiodi Problem solved. I updated the themes
npm i nodebb-theme-vanilla@latest nodebb-theme-lavender@latest
(julian's proposal) and now I can change my settings again, disable categories, etc.
So I would suggest that you add up2date themes to the current installation of nodebb or - even better - have nodebb check if all used themes and plugins are up2date and warn the user about it (will make feature proposal for this)As I said, I installed a clean new copy of nodebb (as described in the docs) and I could not use it at all. This problem might scare away admins, so it would help everyone if it got fixed
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@julian @baris @psychobunny @Giorgio-Chiodi Problem solved. I updated the themes
npm i nodebb-theme-vanilla@latest nodebb-theme-lavender@latest
(julian's proposal) and now I can change my settings again, disable categories, etc.
So I would suggest that you add up2date themes to the current installation of nodebb or - even better - have nodebb check if all used themes and plugins are up2date and warn the user about it (will make feature proposal for this)As I said, I installed a clean new copy of nodebb (as described in the docs) and I could not use it at all. This problem might scare away admins, so it would help everyone if it got fixed
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@Giorgio-Chiodi In my case it is fixed. Still doing some testing, but it looks good
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@Giorgio-Chiodi In my case it is fixed. Still doing some testing, but it looks good
@Marco did you just do this command?
npm i nodebb-theme-vanilla@latest nodebb-theme-lavender@latest
I think I'm missing something. Did you also do another
./nodebb upgrade
?
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@Marco did you just do this command?
npm i nodebb-theme-vanilla@latest nodebb-theme-lavender@latest
I think I'm missing something. Did you also do another
./nodebb upgrade
?
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The themes are downloaded separately, when you do
npm install
the first time. Problem is it seems sometimes npm doesn't install the latest theme files.Ok, I just made a new AWS install, and the bug is not there anymore.
npm i nodebb-theme-vanilla@latest nodebb-theme-lavender@latest
also fixes the problem