Hmm guess we'll have to wait for someone who knows their stuff to show up

I don't think I have. If you don't mind, please do show me how.

@AOKP Thanks so much. I was able to do both, and I don't think I'll need the AV software. This is a small private forum for <200 users with no real valuable (personal) info, just stuff that we don't want to be on Facebook and whatnot, so I doubt the added security is worth the trouble.

The only issue I had was with the service commands to restart the services, both fail with the same error: "Failed to restart xxxx.service: The name org.freedesktop.PolicyKit1 was not provided by any .service files". I believe this may be because that verbage is for Upstart, and since I'm using Ubuntu 15.04 I should be using systemd? In fact, that's the next thing I wanted to fix with my forum, getting a reliable autostart/autorestart solution going. I tried to configure systemd but it won't work.

Here's what currently happens after booting the server and running nodebb log (no other commands):

29/6 01:42 [1006] - info: Time: Mon Jun 29 2015 01:42:44 GMT-0400 (EDT)
29/6 01:42 [1006] - info: Initializing NodeBB v0.7.0
29/6 01:42 [1006] - error: Error: Redis connection to 127.0.0.1:6379 failed - co nnect ECONNREFUSED
at RedisClient.on_error (/home/campadmin/nodebb/node_modules/redis/index.js: 185:24)
at Socket.<anonymous> (/home/campadmin/nodebb/node_modules/redis/index.js:95 :14)
at Socket.EventEmitter.emit (events.js:95:17)
at net.js:441:14
at process._tickCallback (node.js:415:13)
3 restarts in 10 seconds, most likely an error on startup. Halting.

And if I run campadmin@camp-friendship:~/nodebb$ ./nodebb start
I get:

Starting NodeBB
"./nodebb stop" to stop the NodeBB server
"./nodebb log" to view server output
campadmin@camp-friendship:~/nodebb$ ./nodebb log
NodeBB v0.7.0 Copyright (C) 2013-2014 NodeBB Inc.
Clustering enabled: Spinning up 1 process(es).
29/6 01:43 [781] - info: Time: Mon Jun 29 2015 01:43:42 GMT-0400 (EDT)
29/6 01:43 [781] - info: Initializing NodeBB v0.7.0
29/6 01:43 [781] - warn: [plugins/nodebb-plugin-calendar] This plugin may not be compatible with your version of NodeBB. This may cause unintended behaviour or crashing.
29/6 01:43 [781] - warn: [plugins/nodebb-plugin-calendar] In the event of an unr esponsive NodeBB caused by this plugin, run ./nodebb reset plugin="nodebb-plugin -calendar".
29/6 01:43 [781] - warn: [plugins/nodebb-plugin-soundpack-default] This plugin m ay not be compatible with your version of NodeBB. This may cause unintended beha viour or crashing.
29/6 01:43 [781] - warn: [plugins/nodebb-plugin-soundpack-default] In the event of an unresponsive NodeBB caused by this plugin, run ./nodebb reset plugin="node bb-plugin-soundpack-default".
29/6 01:43 [781] - warn: [plugins/nodebb-plugin-assign-newuser-to-group] This pl ugin may not be compatible with your version of NodeBB. This may cause unintende d behaviour or crashing.
29/6 01:43 [781] - warn: [plugins/nodebb-plugin-assign-newuser-to-group] In the event of an unresponsive NodeBB caused by this plugin, run ./nodebb reset plugin ="nodebb-plugin-assign-newuser-to-group".
29/6 01:43 [781] - warn: [plugins/nodebb-plugin-dbsearch] This plugin may not be compatible with your version of NodeBB. This may cause unintended behaviour or crashing.
29/6 01:43 [781] - warn: [plugins/nodebb-plugin-dbsearch] In the event of an unr esponsive NodeBB caused by this plugin, run ./nodebb reset plugin="nodebb-plugin -dbsearch".
29/6 01:43 [781] - warn: [plugins/nodebb-plugin-mentions] This plugin may not be compatible with your version of NodeBB. This may cause unintended behaviour or crashing.
29/6 01:43 [781] - warn: [plugins/nodebb-plugin-mentions] In the event of an unr esponsive NodeBB caused by this plugin, run ./nodebb reset plugin="nodebb-plugin -mentions".
29/6 01:43 [781] - warn: [plugins/nodebb-widget-essentials] This plugin may not be compatible with your version of NodeBB. This may cause unintended behaviour o r crashing.
29/6 01:43 [781] - warn: [plugins/nodebb-widget-essentials] In the event of an u nresponsive NodeBB caused by this plugin, run ./nodebb reset plugin="nodebb-widg et-essentials".
29/6 01:43 [781] - warn: [plugins/nodebb-plugin-buttons-galore] This plugin may not be compatible with your version of NodeBB. This may cause unintended behavio ur or crashing.
29/6 01:43 [781] - warn: [plugins/nodebb-plugin-buttons-galore] In the event of an unresponsive NodeBB caused by this plugin, run ./nodebb reset plugin="nodebb- plugin-buttons-galore".
29/6 01:43 [781] - warn: [plugins/nodebb-plugin-markdown] This plugin may not be compatible with your version of NodeBB. This may cause unintended behaviour or crashing.
29/6 01:43 [781] - warn: [plugins/nodebb-plugin-markdown] In the event of an unr esponsive NodeBB caused by this plugin, run ./nodebb reset plugin="nodebb-plugin -markdown".
29/6 01:43 [781] - warn: [plugins/nodebb-plugin-emoji-extended] This plugin may not be compatible with your version of NodeBB. This may cause unintended behavio ur or crashing.
29/6 01:43 [781] - warn: [plugins/nodebb-plugin-emoji-extended] In the event of an unresponsive NodeBB caused by this plugin, run ./nodebb reset plugin="nodebb- plugin-emoji-extended".
29/6 01:43 [781] - warn: [plugins/nodebb-theme-persona] This plugin may not be c ompatible with your version of NodeBB. This may cause unintended behaviour or cr ashing.
29/6 01:43 [781] - warn: [plugins/nodebb-theme-persona] In the event of an unres ponsive NodeBB caused by this plugin, run ./nodebb reset plugin="nodebb-theme-pe rsona".
29/6 01:43 [781] - warn: [plugins.reload] Library not found for plugin: nodebb-t heme-persona
29/6 01:43 [781] - info: NodeBB Ready
29/6 01:43 [781] - info: Enabling 'trust proxy'
29/6 01:43 [781] - info: NodeBB is now listening on: 0.0.0.0:3000

@BDHarrington7 said:

Can you run anything on nodejs as a non-root user? it might be how you installed node...

You'll have to give me a little more detail on how to test this or fix it, since I'm not 100% sure what you mean. I followed the Wiki's guide for Ubuntu Server I believe.

And can someone give me 3 reputation points please? I have a 10 minute limit between posts, and with my lack of knowledge, I won't be able to help people enough to actually earn them anytime soon haha.