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NodeBB version: v1.5.3. NodeBB git hash: b1b02bd Database type: mongo Database version: 3.2.16 Exact steps to cause this issue: Referring to current install docs located here: nodebb-systemd Instructions dont work for systemd (auto start...
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As a new user of NodeBB I didn't find much info on getting the email side of the application working. Now that it is working well, here is how I did it using GMAIL
Create a new Gmail account or use an existing one. (if you use an existing account, your email address will be seen by your Nodebb users)
Turn on "two step verification" for this account by visiting your Gmail security page and clicking on the "Signing in to Google". You will receive a text message or two to verify the settings change.
Once "Two Step Verification" is enabled, goto this link Sign in using App Passwords and have a read. then click on this link to create an "app password", copy and save it for later.
Now we can go back to the NodeBB settings and choose "Email".
Enter your email address as the "Email address" in NodeBB
"From Name" can be anything you like
Enable the slider "Route emails through a GMAIL account"
Username is your GMAIL email address
Password is the "app password" you generated above.
Save the config and then restart NodeBB
Come back to the Nodebb email settings and press the test button, you should receive an email
All done! - ask any questions if you have them.
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Other than network issues, this will happen if the URL you are accessing the board through does not equal the URL in the /nodebb/config.json file.
EG: you are accessing http://www.domain.com through the browser but the config.json file has http://domain.com you will get that message.
In my nginx config, I have forwarded www.domain.com and domain.com to https://domain.com
In my config.json file I have
"url": "https://domain.com:4567"
or
"url": "https://domain.com"
if you are using NGINX (like me)
this way, no users will get that message because they are always redirected to my preferred URL.
Duke
You have to setup NGINX as a reverse proxy. It will then be NGINX that answers queries from the internet and then passes them to NodeBB.
Have a read here.
ok so, I spent a lifetime searching the forums and google tonight to try and solve this same problem.
The docs here docs.nodebb are clearly wrong for the systemd config file in Ubuntu LTS, it should look like this ...
[Unit]
Description=NodeBB forum for Node.js.
Documentation=http://nodebb.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
After=system.slice multi-user.target
[Service]
Type=simple
User=nodebb
StandardOutput=syslog
StandardError=syslog
SyslogIdentifier=nodebb
Environment=NODE_ENV=production
WorkingDirectory=/opt/nodebb
ExecStart=/usr/bin/node loader.js --no-daemon --no-silent
Restart=always
[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target
This is not my work, it came from here. https://community.nodebb.org/topic/10648/nodebb-service-failing-to-start-after-server-reboot
hope this helps others out. Not sure how to get the docs changed at the above URL.
Duke
If you cannot answer these questions yourself then I suggest you install virtualbox on your local machine and get nodebb working locally but following the docs below. Once you are successful with this, you will have learned alot and can then try and deploy on Google infrastructure.
I know you want to deploy straight to production but my way will be quicker in the long run. The next question you will have will be regarding NGINX and how to get it running on port 80. The answers to all your questions are in the docs. The docs are very easy to follow.
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I can create the website by using 127.0.0.1 IP but the connection is refused by google's internal IP
(127 is a local ip, you need to provide your internet IP here)
"url": "I typed here my domain which is connected to Google's external IP",
"secret": "the key",
"database": "mongo",
"mongo": {
"host": "Google's internal IP", (should be 127.0.0.1)
"port": "I couldnt find this out?", (4567)
"username": "Is this the nodebb user or the user I created for admin database?", (nodebb user)
"password": "Password", (mongo password for Nodebb database)
"database": "nodebb"
</quote>