@Telokis True. But the conditional as written is how I want it to behave, because the behavior is for the user, not the admin.

It's as simple as this: if only admins can post to the category, don't show the "Log in to post" button. Show, instead, "Log in to view" or somesuch.

If(only_admins) { "Log in to read" } else { "Log in to post" };

In fact, if you'll tell me where the code is to draw that button, I can probably do this myself.

Or maybe make it say, "Login to view..."

It looks like if a guest is viewing a category that CANNOT be posted to by even registered members, that the button shows, "Log in to post." How do I get rid of that button for categories that registered users can't post to?

I mean, it would be stupid to show that button and have my user click it, log in, then realize they can't post to the category.

The highlighted message below the button doesn't need to show either ("There are no topics in this category. Why don't you try posting one?").

Is the answer obvious, and you're just ignoring the dumb question, or does nobody really know?

@julian I get the "Congrats! So far so good -- please see server log for details" message, but when I comment out the two lines (as suggested), I get this error:

EXECABORT Transaction discarded because of previous errors.

I have no idea what that means.

After further research, it seems to be an error caused by redis running out of memory.

After increasing the available RAM for my server to 1GB, I'm still getting this error.

After increasing swapfile size to 4GB, I'm still getting this error.

If my user is on our main site, what does the URL look like for them to enter the community/forum already logged in?

https://community.mysite.com/[what-goes-here-so-nodebb-automatically-logs-the-user-in?]

@PitaJ Your suggested solution has worked for me. So, now NodeBB is running with the sso-oauth plugin activated. Thank you!

On the login screen, I get a prompt for "Alternative Logins," but I want to set it up so that any login happens on the MAIN site. I'm assuming it will work like this:

1. User is on community site.
2. User clicks "Login"
3. User redirected to main site for login.
4. User logs in.
5. User redirected back to community site, with credentials.
6. User is logged in to community site.

Is that how it's going to work at this point?

@PitaJ said in Error: Cannot find module 'passport-oauth':

@c.k.-lester run npm ls passport-oauth. Try running rm -rf node_modules/nodebb-plugin-sso-oauth then running npm install nodebb-plugin-sso-oauth.

What is your distribution method? You shouldn't be committing the node_modules folder to your distribution repo if that's what you're doing.

The only repo in node_modules/ is nodebb-plugin-sso-oauth. I'm pulling it from my forked repo, which the NodeBB docs tell me to do. I probably misunderstood something.

I will attempt to fix it with your instructions above.

Thank you!

OK, I've attempted to install "passport-oauth" and encounter this error:

$ npm install passport-oauth
npm ERR! Linux 4.4.0-66-generic
npm ERR! argv "/usr/bin/nodejs" "/usr/bin/npm" "install" "passport-oauth"
npm ERR! node v6.10.1
npm ERR! npm  v3.10.10
npm ERR! path /home/forge/community.ttgn.com/public/node_modules/nodebb-plugin-sso-oauth
npm ERR! code EISGIT

npm ERR! git /home/forge/community.ttgn.com/public/node_modules/nodebb-plugin-sso-oauth: Appears to be a git repo or submodule.
npm ERR! git     /home/forge/community.ttgn.com/public/node_modules/nodebb-plugin-sso-oauth
npm ERR! git Refusing to remove it. Update manually,
npm ERR! git or move it out of the way first.

npm ERR! Please include the following file with any support request:
npm ERR!     /home/forge/community.ttgn.com/public/node_modules/npm-debug.log
forge@breezy-waterfall:~/community.ttgn.com/public/node_modules$

Can anybody help me with this?

I'm trying to node app, but getting the error

Error: Cannot find module 'passport-oauth'

First, why is it missing? Everything else works. Is that module required by the sso-oauth plugin?

How would I go about installing that module? Something like, npm install passport-oauth?

I'm trying to activate the SSO-OAUTH plugin and running into errors. One of them occurs because of this line in the plugin source, library.js:

var authenticationController = module.parent.require('./controllers/authentication');

The ./controllers/authentication file is being referenced in library.js, which is in ~/mysite/public/node_modules/nodebb-plugin-sso-oauth, so... NOT at that path! It's actually at ~/mysite/public/src/.

So, do I need to modify any and all references to files/folders in the plugin? I expected most of them to be relatively accurate.

Thank you!

I'm trying to do some Oauth2 integration, and I need to know what a few of these variables are expecting in this part of the code:

oauth2: {
authorizationURL: 'https://mywebsite.com/oauth/authorize', <-- Does that look right?
tokenURL: '[WHAT GOES HERE?]',
clientID: 'CLIENT-ID',
clientSecret: 'THE-SECRET'
},

// what might userRoute look like?!
userRoute: ''	// This is the address to your app's "user profile" API endpoint (expects JSON)

Thank you!

I increased the size of my swap file. Solved.

Oh. It's saying Killed after an npm install. I bet that's a clue.

I thought it just meant it was finished. heh.

It can't finish the install...?

@pichalite Hmmm. You might be right. But I would have sworn on a sacred text that I had done that!

OK, but I did it now. And it gets further after I do the node app --setup

And now I'm getting the error message below. Should I start over with a clean install? I haven't messed things up beyond saving, have I?!

>> community$ node app --setup
22/3 02:08:59 [13955] - info: NodeBB v1.4.5 Copyright (C) 2013-2017 NodeBB Inc.
22/3 02:08:59 [13955] - info: This program comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
22/3 02:08:59 [13955] - info: This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions.
22/3 02:08:59 [13955] - info:
22/3 02:08:59 [13955] - info: NodeBB Setup Triggered via Command Line

Welcome to NodeBB!

This looks like a new installation, so you'll have to answer a few questions about your environment before we can proceed.
Press enter to accept the default setting (shown in brackets).
module.js:328
    throw err;
    ^

Error: Cannot find module 'express-session'
    at Function.Module._resolveFilename (module.js:326:15)
    at Function.Module._load (module.js:277:25)
    at Module.require (module.js:354:17)
    at require (internal/module.js:12:17)
    at /var/www/nodebb/community/src/database/redis.js:7:16
    at Object.<anonymous> (/var/www/nodebb/community/src/database/redis.js:169:2)
    at Module._compile (module.js:410:26)
    at Object.Module._extensions..js (module.js:417:10)
    at Module.load (module.js:344:32)
    at Function.Module._load (module.js:301:12)

I've done a few "npm install ..." for nconf, then winston, and now it's asking for jimp.

How many of these things am I going to have to install? Is there a step I missed that installed all these already?

Attempting to install according to the instructions here: https://www.blogsynthesis.com/install-nodebb-on-digitalocean/

Having run

node app --setup

I get this error:

module.js:328
    throw err;
    ^

Error: Cannot find module 'nconf'
    at Function.Module._resolveFilename (module.js:326:15)
    at Function.Module._load (module.js:277:25)
    at Module.require (module.js:354:17)
    at require (internal/module.js:12:17)
    at Object.<anonymous> (/var/www/nodebb/community/app.js:22:13)
    at Module._compile (module.js:410:26)
    at Object.Module._extensions..js (module.js:417:10)
    at Module.load (module.js:344:32)
    at Function.Module._load (module.js:301:12)
    at Function.Module.runMain (module.js:442:10)

Can someone please help me finish this install? Thank you!

@rod Yeah, the request is appropriate. In fact, people will be invited to groups. There won't be a lot of requesting to join at first...

I figure this is the functionality I want:

1. When a user signs up on my site, create the forum (NodeBB) account. (Is that necessary?) This will give the user on-site messaging with other users.
2. When the user creates a group on my site, create the associated group forum. Set user as owner/admin.
3. Allow other users to join that group by invitation from the owner.
4. When a user closes his account, close the forum group and archive all material.
5. When a user leaves a group on my site, disconnect them from the associated forum as well.

I'm wondering if Muut would be better for this kind of functionality...

Any and all opinions requested and appreciated!