Some general help with NodeBB
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Hi Guys,
I've recently installed NodeBB instance and would like to understand a few things I've seen here on the official NodeBB:
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There are links with icons on the top right corner of this website's homepage or categories page, I would like to implement that on my instance as well and was wondering if that some sort of plugin or just bare code added in the settings?
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I would like to use Facebook and Google auth and need some help settings that, maybe something i miss on the facebook end of things.
If anyone reading this have a spare minute to help out via discord it would mean a great deal to me, and much appreciated.
Thanks regardless, have a blessed day
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Those links are an html widget, you can create it in the admin page at /admin/extend/widgets
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Once you install the sso plugns (nodebb-plugin-sso-facebook & nodebb-plugin-sso-google) you fill out the details in the acp page and they should show up on the login page.
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Google is easy to do with the SSO add-in. Twitter and FaceBook now have a mountain of hoops you have to jump through to use their SSO sign ins so I and many other admins I know have gotten away from using it.
FaceBook requires you (for certain permissions) to submit business documentation. Not really worth it if your site is a hobby site and you don't have a business. Yes, you can use your home address information I am sure, but many would rather not give FaceBook even more data to sell. -
@Astro-What Thanks.
It was working at first but then it just started giving registrants message that this app is not secure and eventually stopped working claiming facebook is collecting more data.
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@baris
I've installed both and got just the Facebook Auth to work and afterwards it was disabled by google until i will give some more information.Regarding my issue with google Auth - once I put in my information from the google app i made - when i click save changes it doesn't actually save it so i can't get it to work.
Can I save that info manually and then build & restart Nodebb manually? if so - where is that attributes are stored (which file) ?Thanks
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@Developer.this I've added it manually for now but the save menu here (google-sso) and on some other plugs doesn't work.
thought you should know@baris would you mind sharing the html widget code so i can use it on my instance as well?
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@Developer.this said in Some general help with NodeBB:
I've added it manually for now but the save menu here (google-sso) and on some other plugs doesn't work.
I have had this issue recently with some plug-ins. It ended up being resolved by filtering through some new plugs-ins I had added and then removing them one by one. I don't remember which exact ones they were that were causing issues though.
I know the Google-SSO plug-in works on my site.
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@Astro-What
So the plugins are OK yet there is one specific plugin that prevents the save function?I've tried to install some iframe or embed plugins recently and still have some installed and enabled even though they didn't work so I ended up enabling HTML altogether.
the google SSO does work after i added the .env vars manually.
I will try to uninstall anything I don't use and update here once I've found that problematic plugin
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@Developer.this said in Some general help with NodeBB:
So the plugins are OK yet there is one specific plugin that prevents the save function?
That was what I ran into. It may have involved the plug-in load order, but the ones I had installed were not need to haves, but want to play withs.
@Developer.this said in Some general help with NodeBB:
the google SSO does work after i added the .env vars manually
Sounds like something is interfering then as I did not need to do the environmental variables.
