Install Nodebb with Apache

[Tomasz Piątek]

Hi

I can't find answer to my qustion about installation nodebb.

I would install nodebb on digitalocean server where I have run Apache. I did it with Ghost and now I have:
mainpage.com
blog.mainpage.com (Ghost)
And now I want to have:
board.mainpage.com with nodebb.

How can I do it?

(sorry for my bad english. I hope you understand me )

[ideavateravi]

This seems good .

[a_5mith]

documentation about Apache is here

[Tomasz Piątek]

Ok, I did it, nodeBB works but... I can't log in

adress: http://188.226.241.129:4567/
You can try, user: demo pw: demo123

[a_5mith]

@Tomasz-Piątek you created an admin account when you ran ./nodebb setup

Where it asked you for an admin username and an admin email address and password.

[Tomasz Piątek]

ehh... I run it but now i have error.

This is log:

info: Enabling 'trust proxy'
warn: [plugins/nodebb-plugin-mentions] This plugin may not be compatible with your version of NodeBB. This may cause unintended behaviour or crashing.
 warn: [plugins/nodebb-plugin-mentions] In the event of an unresponsive NodeBB caused by this plugin, run ./nodebb reset plugin="nodebb-plugin-mentions".

info: [meta/css] Minifying LESS/CSS
info: [sounds] Sounds OK
info: [themes] Compiling templates
info: [themes] Successfully compiled templates.
info: NodeBB attempting to listen on: 188.226.241.129:4567
info: NodeBB v0.4.3 Copyright (C) 2013-2014 NodeBB Inc.
info: This program comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
info: This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions.
info:
info: Time: Tue Jun 24 2014 09:35:16 GMT+0000 (UTC)
info: Initializing NodeBB v0.4.3
info: * using configuration stored in: /var/www/board.psds.pl/config.json
info: * using redis store at 127.0.0.1:6379
info: * using themes stored in: /var/www/board.psds.pl/node_modules
warn: You have no redis password setup!
info: [user.startJobs] Registering User Jobs
info: Enabling 'trust proxy'

warn: [plugins/nodebb-plugin-mentions] This plugin may not be compatible with your version of NodeBB. This may cause unintended behaviour or crashing.
warn: [plugins/nodebb-plugin-mentions] In the event of an unresponsive NodeBB caused by this plugin, run ./nodebb reset     plugin="nodebb-plugin-mentions".

info: [meta/css] Minifying LESS/CSS
info: [sounds] Sounds OK
info: [themes] Compiling templates
info: [themes] Successfully compiled templates.
info: NodeBB attempting to listen on: 188.226.241.129:4567

[loader] Experienced three start attempts in 10 seconds, most likely an error on startup. Halting.

Anyway I have users but i cant log in.

I just want to run this awesome script

[a_5mith]

@Tomasz-Piątek You're advised not to run NodeBB from a public folder such as var/www, it's recommended to run it in /home/user/nodebb, outside of public view.

Can you run ./nodebb dev and paste the output here.

[Tomasz Piątek]

@a_5mith I can

info: NodeBB v0.4.3 Copyright (C) 2013-2014 NodeBB Inc.
info: This program comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
info: This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions.
info:
info: Time: Tue Jun 24 2014 10:51:43 GMT+0000 (UTC)
info: Initializing NodeBB v0.4.3
info: * using configuration stored in: /var/www/board.psds.pl/config.json
info: * using redis store at 127.0.0.1:6379
info: * using themes stored in: /var/www/board.psds.pl/node_modules
info: Base Configuration OK.
warn: You have no redis password setup!
info: [notifications.init] Registering jobs.
info: [user.startJobs] Registering User Jobs
info: Enabling 'trust proxy'
info: [plugins] Initializing plugins system
info: [themes] Using theme nodebb-theme-lavender
info: Middlewares loaded.
info: [plugins] Found 1 CSS file(s) for plugin nodebb-widget-essentials
info: [plugins] Found 1 LESS file(s) for plugin nodebb-plugin-markdown
info: [plugins] Found 3 js file(s) for plugin nodebb-theme-lavender
info: [plugins] Loaded plugin: nodebb-widget-essentials
info: [plugins] Loaded plugin: nodebb-plugin-soundpack-default
info: [plugins] Loaded plugin: nodebb-plugin-markdown
info: [plugins] Loaded plugin: nodebb-theme-lavender
info: [plugins] Sorting hooks to fire in priority sequence
info: [plugins] Plugins OK
info: [meta/css] Minifying LESS/CSS
info: [sounds] Sounds OK
info: [themes] Compiling templates
info: [themes] Successfully compiled templates.
info: NodeBB attempting to listen on: 188.226.241.129:4567
error: NodeBB address in use, exiting...

Why nodeBB adress in use? it's not simple

[a_5mith]

@Tomasz-Piątek NodeBB is already running then...

./nodebb stop
./nodebb dev

I find it pretty simple, but I've installed NodeBB about 15 times through testing droplets and forgetting to create snapshots.

[Tomasz Piątek]

@a_5mith Im stupid Restart server helped.

Now it's run: http://188.226.241.129:4567 and still i cant log in (try demo demo123)

[a_5mith]

@Tomasz-Piątek

Anything in ./nodebb log?

[Tomasz Piątek]

@a_5mith said:

./nodebb log

info: Enabling 'trust proxy'
info: [meta/css] Minifying LESS/CSS
info: [sounds] Sounds OK
info: [themes] Compiling templates
info: [themes] Successfully compiled templates.
info: NodeBB attempting to listen on: 188.226.241.129:4567
info: NodeBB is now listening on: 188.226.241.129:4567
info: [meta/css] Done.
info: [meta/js] Compilation complete
info: NodeBB Ready

So, its ok?

[a_5mith]

@Tomasz-Piątek I'm not seeing any errors, and I've registered fine, not sure why admin isn't working, no immediate reason why not. :s

[Tomasz Piątek]

@a_5mith Yes, registration work fine. But try logout and log in again It doesn't work.

[a_5mith]

@Tomasz-Piątek Interesting... It locked me out as if I'd got the wrong password, however before then I was getting Post login aborted through net tools. Can you clarify where you have nodebb installed? Is it in var/www/?

[Tomasz Piątek]

@a_5mith /var/www/board.psds.pl and run it as root.

[a_5mith]

@Tomasz-Piątek I don't know if the two are related, but it could be that it's not supposed to be installed there, @julian can confirm if this would make a difference/cause your issues.

It's also better to create a non root user with sudo priveliges. As root can modify certain aspects, that could cause issues.

[Tomasz Piątek]

@a_5mith I will make new user, but now I just want to run and make good it

[a_5mith]

@Tomasz-Piątek What guide did you follow to install? I recommend the official documentation as it contains all the info you need to set up and run nodebb error free.

[Tomasz Piątek]

@a_5mith I used https://docs.nodebb.org/en/latest/installing/os/ubuntu.html I try clean install when I finish work