Alright, upgraded all the way up to 1.7.1 and it did fix the issue, thank you very much for your help, the forum is now working fine on the latest version of a Heroku hobby plan.

Alright, I am going to run upgrade scripts and keep this topic up to date; thanks

Well, it seems that providing a port in config.json will attach the process to this port, however, Heroku expects the process to be attached to a specific port provided as an environment variable, which is random.

Hi,

I can't get NodeBB v1.5.3 to work on Heroku, as it does not bind to the correct port (Binding to 4567 while Heroku exposes a PORT environment variable, changing at each deployment).

My config.json is as follow:

{
    "url": "http://xxxxx.herokuapp.com",
    "secret": "someRandomUUID",
    "database": "redis",
    "redis":  {...}
}

Thank you very much

Hey,

A great feature that would be very useful would be being able to backup / restore databases from the control panel (at least for the base forum, not considering plugin related data), it would be easier to change hosting solution and scaling up as time goes by.

Thanks a lot !

It does only rely on npm start for node applications

Has anyone managed to get it working ? Build keeps failing with latest version.

Ok, so as for now I should stay using widgets instead of merging everything

Thank you very much for your help

I mean instead of having to place the widget through the ACP, being able to place the widget template inside of the templates of the theme, by that way having a better control over what should the plugin display without overriding the default plugin.

Actually I have my template

<aside class="navigation"><div widget-area="navigation-categories"></div></aside>

As well as the widget template

<!-- BEGIN categories -->
	<ul class="categories-list">
		<li>
			<!-- IF !categories.link -->
			<h4><a href="{config.relative_path}/category/{categories.slug}">{categories.name}</a></h4>
			<!-- ELSE -->
			<h4><a href="{categories.link}">{categories.name}</a></h4>
			<!-- ENDIF !categories.link -->
			<p>{categories.descriptionParsed}</p>
		</li>
	</ul>
	<!-- END categories -->

Is there a way to concatenate those ?

<div class="navigation">
<!-- BEGIN categories -->
<ul class="categories-list">
	<li>
		<!-- IF !categories.link -->
		<h4><a href="{config.relative_path}/category/{categories.slug}">{categories.name}</a></h4>
		<!-- ELSE -->
		<h4><a href="{categories.link}">{categories.name}</a></h4>
		<!-- ENDIF !categories.link -->
		<!-- I could edit this part to add Theme specific informations such as icon of the category, ... -->
		<p>{categories.descriptionParsed}</p>
	</li>
</ul>
<!-- END categories -->
</div>

I can embedd the code but the plugin does not work anymore, and I don't know where I should put the javascript code of the widget inside my theme directory.

Actually, widgets are rendered after page load via an API call, but is there a way to embedd them and render them with the page ?

Yes, but is there any way that the plugin would be integrated seamlessly, his code being embedded into the templates of the theme or is it a current limitation ?

Is there a way to embedd this widget inside my theme or should I release it separately ? Anyway, thank your for pointing the use of widgets, didn't think about it before.

Hello,

I'm trying to create a new theme for my forum based on Vanilla, but can't figure how to list categories inside a sidebar (Pretty much like what Majestic 4.5 would do), so that users could see them wherever they are on the forum.

What would be the best way to do this, should I edit the core or create a plugin or is there any shortcut ?

Thank you very much