I'm very interested in using NodeBB as a commenting system for my static website. I see a Wordpress solution, but can't find generic code for use on a static site. Can anybody point me in the right direction?

@julian Where can I find the generic code for using NodeBB as a commenting system? My blog is static, and I'm looking for a commenting system -- being able to use my current install of NodeBB would be great!

In the General Use section of https://github.com/revir/nodebb-plugin-blog-comments2#readme it refers to two functions that look like they need to be written before this code can be used on my Pelican web site. They are:

nbb.articleID = <Function to get the unique article id> // To get the unique article id, see explations below.

and

nbb.articleContent = <Function to get the excerpt of the article> // Write a function to get the post content.

I am not sure what to do here, as I do not know how to create these functions. I know a bit of PHP / Python, but nothing to fit this problem. Suggestions?

Looks like a good start. I'm using Pelican (python) to generate my static site. So, the templating system is via the Jinja templating system.

I'm more familiar with PHP than Jinja, but I can not use PHP, only raw HTML (inside a Markdown document, which Pelican converts to html pages) or the Jinja system. So, I'm looking for a solution that will fit my Pelican generated site.

Links

• https://blog.getpelican.com/
• http://jinja.pocoo.org/

I'm very interested in using NodeBB as a commenting system for my static website. I see a Wordpress solution, but can't find generic code for use on a static site. Can anybody point me in the right direction?

@julian Where can I find the generic code for using NodeBB as a commenting system? My blog is static, and I'm looking for a commenting system -- being able to use my current install of NodeBB would be great!

OK. I removed nodebb foler, but didn't drop the db.

Ran:

yilm@yilm:~/$ git clone -b v1.10.x https://github.com/NodeBB/NodeBB.git nodebb
yilm@yilm:~$ ./nodebb setup

No errors. Everything is now up and running.

@pitaj It was 1.9.something and upgraded to 1.10.something.

@dravere Yes. Followed instructions here: https://docs.nodebb.org/installing/os/ubuntu/

yilm@yilm:~/nodebb$ npm -v
5.6.0
yilm@yilm:~/nodebb$ nodejs -v
v8.11.3

How do I drop the DB? I am familiar with MySQL, but not Mongo.

OK, I ran ./nodebb upgrade after deleting the above mentioned files. No dice.

Here's the output:

yilm@yilm:~/nodebb$ ./nodebb upgrade
npm WARN deprecated jade@0.26.3: Jade has been renamed to pug, please install the latest version of pug instead of jade
npm WARN deprecated connect@2.7.6: connect 2.x series is deprecated
npm WARN deprecated node-uuid@1.4.8: Use uuid module instead
npm WARN deprecated pygmentize-bundled@2.1.1: no longer maintained
npm WARN deprecated graceful-fs@3.0.11: please upgrade to graceful-fs 4 for compatibility with current and future versions of Node.js
npm WARN deprecated minimatch@1.0.0: Please update to minimatch 3.0.2 or higher to avoid a RegExp DoS issue
npm WARN deprecated npmconf@1.1.9: this package has been reintegrated into npm and is now out of date with respect to npm
npm WARN deprecated minimatch@0.2.14: Please update to minimatch 3.0.2 or higher to avoid a RegExp DoS issue
npm WARN deprecated graceful-fs@2.0.3: please upgrade to graceful-fs 4 for compatibility with current and future versions of Node.js
npm WARN deprecated minimatch@2.0.10: Please update to minimatch 3.0.2 or higher to avoid a RegExp DoS issue
npm WARN notice [SECURITY] npm has the following vulnerability: 1 high. Go here for more details: https://nodesecurity.io/advisories?search=npm&version=1.4.29 - Run npm i npm@latest -g to upgrade your npm version, and then npm audit to get more info.
npm ERR! code ETARGET
npm ERR! notarget No matching version found for nodebb-widget-essentials@~0.0.21
npm ERR! notarget In most cases you or one of your dependencies are requesting
npm ERR! notarget a package version that doesn't exist.
npm ERR! notarget
npm ERR! notarget It was specified as a dependency of 'nodebb'
npm ERR! notarget

npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in:
npm ERR! /home/yilm/.npm/_logs/2018-07-11T17_50_42_742Z-debug.log
[..................] / rollbackFailedOptional: verb npm-sessio
npm notice created a lockfile as package-lock.json. You should commit this file.
npm WARN nodebb@0.4.3 license should be a valid SPDX license expression

• nodebb-theme-vanilla@0.0.18
• nodebb-theme-lavender@0.0.25
  removed 550 packages and updated 2 packages in 8.355s
  module.js:549
  throw err;
  ^

Error: Cannot find module 'nconf'
at Function.Module._resolveFilename (module.js:547:15)
at Function.Module._load (module.js:474:25)
at Module.require (module.js:596:17)
at require (internal/module.js:11:18)
at Object.<anonymous> (/home/yilm/nodebb/app.js:23:13)
at Module._compile (module.js:652:30)
at Object.Module._extensions..js (module.js:663:10)
at Module.load (module.js:565:32)
at tryModuleLoad (module.js:505:12)
at Function.Module._load (module.js:497:3)

NodeBB Dependencies up-to-date!

Now, I'm getting a different error when I run ./nodebb start:

yilm@yilm:~/nodebb$ ./nodebb start
Starting NodeBB
"./nodebb stop" to stop the NodeBB server
"./nodebb log" to view server output
module.js:549
throw err;
^

Error: Cannot find module 'nconf'
at Function.Module._resolveFilename (module.js:547:15)
at Function.Module._load (module.js:474:25)
at Module.require (module.js:596:17)
at require (internal/module.js:11:18)
at Object.<anonymous> (/home/yilm/nodebb/loader.js:3:13)
at Module._compile (module.js:652:30)
at Object.Module._extensions..js (module.js:663:10)
at Module.load (module.js:565:32)
at tryModuleLoad (module.js:505:12)
at Function.Module._load (module.js:497:3)

Because it is a fresh install to begin with (nothing to loose), how would I remove nodebb from my server so I can try a fresh reinstall and then upgrade again? Or better yet, reinstall the latest instead so as to skip the upgrade.

I followed the Ubuntu install (https://docs.nodebb.org/installing/os/ubuntu/) - how do I just reinstall the latest version?

I am assuming I need to change 1.9.x to 1.10.x in the following command:

git clone -b v1.9.x https://github.com/NodeBB/NodeBB.git nodebb

Am I right?

OK! I'll do that in a min. First, I wanted to add the following output:

yilm@yilm:~/nodebb$ ./nodebb start
Starting NodeBB
"./nodebb stop" to stop the NodeBB server
"./nodebb log" to view server output
child_process.js:403
throw new TypeError('"cwd" must be a string');
^

TypeError: "cwd" must be a string
at normalizeSpawnArguments (child_process.js:403:11)
at Object.exports.spawn (child_process.js:496:38)
at Function.module.exports.daemon (/home/yilm/nodebb/node_modules/daemon/index.js:50:31)
at module.exports (/home/yilm/nodebb/node_modules/daemon/index.js:25:20)
at Object.<anonymous> (/home/yilm/nodebb/loader.js:93:19)
at Module._compile (module.js:652:30)
at Object.Module._extensions..js (module.js:663:10)
at Module.load (module.js:565:32)
at tryModuleLoad (module.js:505:12)
at Function.Module._load (module.js:497:3)

Installed nodebb today and had it working fine. It had a notification informing me I should upgrade. I clicked the link, and followed the instructions as seen here:

Upgrading - NodeBB Documentation

After I ran ./nodebb upgrade I got errors, and now it won't start at all.

Help!

Here's the ./nodebb upgrade output:

yilm@yilm:~/nodebb$ ./nodebb upgrade
npm WARN read-shrinkwrap This version of npm is compatible with lockfileVersion@1, but npm-shrinkwrap.json was generated for lockfileVersion@0. I'll try to do my best with it!
npm WARN deprecated connect@2.7.6: connect 2.x series is deprecated
npm WARN deprecated pygmentize-bundled@2.1.1: no longer maintained
npm ERR! code ETARGET
npm ERR! notarget No matching version found for i@0.3.2
npm ERR! notarget In most cases you or one of your dependencies are requesting
npm ERR! notarget a package version that doesn't exist.

npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in:
npm ERR! /home/yilm/.npm/_logs/2018-07-11T03_18_44_083Z-debug.log
npm WARN read-shrinkwrap This version of npm is compatible with lockfileVersion@1, but npm-shrinkwrap.json was generated for lockfileVersion@0. I'll try to do my best with it!
npm WARN deprecated connect@2.7.6: connect 2.x series is deprecated
npm WARN deprecated pygmentize-bundled@2.1.1: no longer maintained
npm ERR! code ETARGET
npm ERR! notarget No matching version found for i@0.3.2
npm ERR! notarget In most cases you or one of your dependencies are requesting
npm ERR! notarget a package version that doesn't exist.

npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in:
npm ERR! /home/yilm/.npm/logs/2018-07-11T03_18_48_110Z-debug.log
/home/yilm/nodebb/public/src/utils.js:104
invalidUnicodeChars: XRegExp('[^\p{L}\s\d\-]', 'g'),
^

TypeError: XRegExp is not a function
at undefined.module.module.exports (/home/yilm/nodebb/public/src/utils.js:104:24)
at Object.<anonymous> (/home/yilm/nodebb/public/src/utils.js:282:3)
at Module._compile (module.js:652:30)
at Object.Module._extensions..js (module.js:663:10)
at Module.load (module.js:565:32)
at tryModuleLoad (module.js:505:12)
at Function.Module._load (module.js:497:3)
at Module.require (module.js:596:17)
at require (internal/module.js:11:18)
at Object.<anonymous> (/home/yilm/nodebb/app.js:32:10)

NodeBB Dependencies up-to-date!