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.

@NoduleJS check out the output from apt-get update, the repo you are setting up is not being picked up.
The issue is on the command you are using... after the > you shouldn't be calling tee.

You should be doing it like this:

sudo echo "THE LINE" > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/mongodb.list

Just wanted to chime in and say that we migrated to v3.0.0-rc2 a couple days ago and it's been smooth sailing, we are very pleased with the new theme. Great job !

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.

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.

@pitaj thank you for letting me know, much appreciated.
No worries, it's not critical.

Hello guys.

Just FYI, I see an error 500 to https://community.nodebb.org/api/post/upload while trying to upload an image here in this forum.

This does not happen to us in our forum, but we use imgur plugin so I guess that's the reason.

@baris said in NodeBB 3.3.0:

@fgallese do you have a room with a lot of users by any chance? Or were you using nodebb-plugin-global-chat?

Yes and yes. We have a chat room with all users which sees a lot of usage, so it is expected for us to have a lot of messages in the history I guess.

@baris said in 3.3.0 Upgrade Support:

You could try adding .allowDiskUse(true) to the query at https://github.com/NodeBB/NodeBB/blob/master/src/database/mongo/sorted.js#L397-L401.

It throws that error because the data is too big to sort in memory (the default limit is 100mb).

I am working on the new upgrade script that should be aviable later today as 3.3.1.

Hello @baris . Today after update to 3.3.1 I see a new error:

Parsing upgrade scripts... 
OK | 5 script(s) found, 124 skipped
  → [2023/7/2] Update chat messages to add roomId field...
Error occurred
2023-08-18T19:43:48.782Z [4567/9] - warn: NodeBB Setup Aborted.
 TypeError: midsSeen.hasOwnProperty is not a function
    at /usr/src/app/nodebb/src/upgrades/3.3.0/chat_room_refactor.js:41:55
    at Array.filter (<anonymous>)
    at batch.processSortedSet.batch (/usr/src/app/nodebb/src/upgrades/3.3.0/chat_room_refactor.js:41:31)
    at module.processSortedSet (/usr/src/app/nodebb/src/database/mongo/sorted.js:588:11)
    at process.processTicksAndRejections (node:internal/process/task_queues:95:5)
    at async exports.processSortedSet (/usr/src/app/nodebb/src/batch.js:30:10)
    at async batch.processSortedSet.batch (/usr/src/app/nodebb/src/upgrades/3.3.0/chat_room_refactor.js:40:8)
    at async module.processSortedSet (/usr/src/app/nodebb/src/database/mongo/sorted.js:588:5)
    at async exports.processSortedSet (/usr/src/app/nodebb/src/batch.js:30:10)
    at async batch.processArray.batch (/usr/src/app/nodebb/src/upgrades/3.3.0/chat_room_refactor.js:38:6)

Any idea how can I fix this ?

Thank you

@baris said in 3.3.0 Upgrade Support:

Looks like mongodb cursors have a lifetime of 10minutes so it might be throwing that error after that

Can you run this in your mongo cli?

db.objects.count({_key: "chat:room:<replace_with_global_chat_roomid>:uids"});
db.objects.count({_key: "uid:<replace_with_your_uid>chat:room:<replace_with_global_chat_roomid>:mids"});

So we can get an idea of how many users/messages are in that global chat room.

You can trim those zsets in mongo cli since this is most like only caused by that one room that has all users in the forum but that is a last resort.


This is after I removed messages (which btw I believe did not help, I might need to recover a backup of the db).

Thank you @baris for all your help and support, our forum is back online thanks to you.

@baris said in 3.8.0 Upgrade Support:

@fgallese install nodebb 3.8.1 or install mentions plugin version 4.4.3.

Thank you will try

Damn and is my own post ! Haha I fixed it but when I redeployed lost the "fix". Sorry for the noise