I would like to block it from everyone. I don't want scrappers to have it be that easy i want them to have a bit of a challenge. ideally this would work on a token basis as the write api does. if i can't have that i would like to just be turned off

Is there a way to turn off the GET API without a token?

you have the web installer and the command line install ./nodebb install? what else were thinking?

@PitaJ

node = 6.11.2
npm = 5.5.1

@pitaj

I restarted and now when I
from the command line installer "./nodebb install" I get this error

26/10 12:20:12 [41716] - warn: NodeBB Setup Aborted.
MongoError: Syntax error, incorrect syntax near '12'.
at Function.MongoError.create (C:\dev\source\nodebb\10-26\NodeBB\node_modules\mongodb-core\lib\error.js:31:11)
at queryCallback (C:\dev\source\nodebb\10-26\NodeBB\node_modules\mongodb-core\lib\cursor.js:197:34)
at C:\dev\source\nodebb\10-26\NodeBB\node_modules\mongodb-core\lib\connection\pool.js:469:18
at _combinedTickCallback (internal/process/next_tick.js:73:7)
at process._tickCallback (internal/process/next_tick.js:104:9)

this is the function throwing the error

/**

• Creates a new MongoError object
• @method
• @param {object} options The error options
• @return {MongoError} A MongoError instance
  */
  MongoError.create = function(options) {
  var err = null;

if(options instanceof Error) {
err = new MongoError(options.message);
err.stack = options.stack;
} else if(typeof options == 'string') {
err = new MongoError(options);
} else {
err = new MongoError(options.message || options.errmsg || options.$err || "n/a");
// Other options
for(var name in options) {
err[name] = options[name];
}
}

return err;
}

this is the mongo connection string.. Its currently live if you want to give it a try..
mongodb://10-25-2017-nodebb:1jMyMreYQwdIb6qVGjGsOvaJJwjdtiqmTcp9HLXUCurimHGDiIdTTi0Nur8lRlDV5FXdYXkWaiUDFcPzvfpfrg==@10-25-2017-nodebb.documents.azure.com:10255/?ssl=true&replicaSet=globaldb
its on a free trial account that ill delete shortly.

as you can see by the data explorer it installed on the instance at one point.

Hi I am trying to do a fresh install on CosmoDB azure's mongo compatible database. Link To Example
And I am getting a error below. I have gotten it to successfully to right through to the datastore at one point so i know it can work but after it then fails on the read. Has anyone successfully gotten his to work?

Error: listen EADDRINUSE :::36887
at Object.exports._errnoException (util.js:1020:11)
at exports._exceptionWithHostPort (util.js:1043:20)
at Agent.Server._listen2 (net.js:1258:14)
at listen (net.js:1294:10)
at net.js:1404:9
at _combinedTickCallback (internal/process/next_tick.js:83:11)