I finally figured it out... you need to put the path to the socket replacing the slashes with %2F.

For example:

"mongo": {
        "uri": "mongodb://username:password@%2Fvar%2Frun%2Fmongodb%2Fmongodb-27017.sock/dbname"
    }

Thank you for your help. Hope this post helps anybody who is facing the same issue.

Hello,

I am in the process of evaluating nodebb to migrate our phpbb forum.

So far so good. There is, however a feature that I am missing and I would like to know if someone has any idea how hard can it be to add it.

At our current forum, we have a simple chat system at the front page where everyone that is logged in is automatically added to the chat, so you can chat with anyone who's on the site at the time.

You can see it in action here: http://www.forobolso.com/foro/

Furthermore, if you do not have a user, you can login to the chat as a guest.

This is a very used feature of our site, and I'd like to keep it.
I can see that nodebb has an amazing chat system, but it does not provide the option to use it the way we need it: Always visible at the front page (the categories page) and with every logged in user on it.

Has anybody how this can be achieved ? Would it be possible to develop a plugin which makes use of the existing chat system or is it neccessary to write a new chat system from the ground up ?

Thank you all for your time reading this.

I believe this was already reported and fixed, see: https://github.com/NodeBB/nodebb-plugin-poll/issues/96

Issue is, the fix was made to the master branch, si it is not in the latest release.

FaizanZahid created this issue in NodeBB/nodebb-plugin-poll

closed When trying to insert a poll on already written topic gets this error #96

Why don't you use a service like mailgun which would take care of that for you ? I believe it is free for up to 10k emails per month.

Why don't you use a service like mailgun which would take care of that for you ? I believe it is free for up to 10k emails per month.

great work ! can you please show how it looks when more people are on the chat room ?

Hello. You need to run ./nodebb build after every time you install (or remove) a plugin.

I believe this was already reported and fixed, see: https://github.com/NodeBB/nodebb-plugin-poll/issues/96

Issue is, the fix was made to the master branch, si it is not in the latest release.

FaizanZahid created this issue in NodeBB/nodebb-plugin-poll

closed When trying to insert a poll on already written topic gets this error #96

Si bien no conozco ningún plugin que te permita controlar eso, es bien fácil de consultar directamente en la base de datos, los mensajes no estan encriptados ni nada parecido.

Por ejemplo:

(código de python porque es lo que manejo yo)

from pymongo import MongoClient
client = MongoClient('elSocket', username='elUsuario', password='elPassword', authSource='laDbDeAuth')
mycol = client["laDb"]["objects"]
data = mycol.find_one({'_key': 'message:61512'})
print(data)

Eso te va a devolver algo como esto:

{ "_id" : ObjectId("5c8f515fa48e2379dd6372bc"), "_key" : "message:61512", "content" : "elTextoDelMensaje", "deleted" : 0, "fromuid" : 1, "ip" : "unaIP", "roomId" : "9", "timestamp" : 1552896351333 }

Es solo un ejemplo de cómo obtener un mensaje de chat, pero bueno, te haces una idea de cómo podrías implementar un script que te devuelva los mensajes de un chat.

I finally figured it out... you need to put the path to the socket replacing the slashes with %2F.

For example:

"mongo": {
        "uri": "mongodb://username:password@%2Fvar%2Frun%2Fmongodb%2Fmongodb-27017.sock/dbname"
    }

Thank you for your help. Hope this post helps anybody who is facing the same issue.

@PitaJ said in Mongo listening on unix socket ?:

You can use a mongo uri instead of configuring all fields separately.

See the docs for more info:

https://docs.nodebb.org/configuring/config/

Thank you for the suggestion, but unfortunately, I've already tried that and every time I use the uri para meter and I do not provide the "host" setting I get this error:

2019-02-23T17:04:19.326Z [/var/run/nodebb/nodebb_0.sock/5781] - error: NodeBB could not connect to your Mongo database. Mongo returned the following error
MongoParseError: No hostname or hostnames provided in connection string

This is the config I am using, although I've tried many other combinations:

"mongo": {
        "uri": "mongodb://myusername:mypassword@/var/run/mongodb/mongodb-27017.sock/dbname",
   }

But, I guess this is a mongodb error not a nodebb one, so I'll try to figure it out.

Thank you.

Hello all !

Just a quick question... I have my mongo db listening on a unix socket (/var/run/mongodb/mongodb-27017.sock) and I want nodebb to connect to this socket instead of using the network, is this possible ?

I have tried so many combinations of host/port/uri in the config.json file but still no luck.

The mongo db is accessible from this socket:

root@web05 ~ # mongo --host /var/run/mongodb/mongodb-27017.sock -u admin -p aPassword --authenticationDatabase=admin --verbose
MongoDB shell version v4.0.6
connecting to: mongodb://%2Fvar%2Frun%2Fmongodb%2Fmongodb-27017.sock/?authSource=admin&gssapiServiceName=mongodb
2019-02-23T09:34:08.025+0100 D NETWORK  [js] creating new connection to:/var/run/mongodb/mongodb-27017.sock
2019-02-23T09:34:08.025+0100 D NETWORK  [js] connected to server /var/run/mongodb/mongodb-27017.sock
2019-02-23T09:34:08.026+0100 D NETWORK  [js] connected connection!
Implicit session: session { "id" : UUID("94094130-271c-4f5f-8b4a-c1ea435b0e7c") }
MongoDB server version: 4.0.6
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Thank you in advance for any ideas/guidance.

@pichalite This was exactly what I was thinking of. Thank you

I am having troubles making it work, but I'll post on the shoutbox thread.

Hello,

I am in the process of evaluating nodebb to migrate our phpbb forum.

So far so good. There is, however a feature that I am missing and I would like to know if someone has any idea how hard can it be to add it.

At our current forum, we have a simple chat system at the front page where everyone that is logged in is automatically added to the chat, so you can chat with anyone who's on the site at the time.

You can see it in action here: http://www.forobolso.com/foro/

Furthermore, if you do not have a user, you can login to the chat as a guest.

This is a very used feature of our site, and I'd like to keep it.
I can see that nodebb has an amazing chat system, but it does not provide the option to use it the way we need it: Always visible at the front page (the categories page) and with every logged in user on it.

Has anybody how this can be achieved ? Would it be possible to develop a plugin which makes use of the existing chat system or is it neccessary to write a new chat system from the ground up ?

Thank you all for your time reading this.