@Kowlin Well I am not an experienced sysadmin but when I am about to install some software that I don't know about, I have a look around and learn about it, its security etc.

If you just want to install a nodebb and run it for your community then its better if you use one of the paid plans nodebb has on its site, rather than trying to play with an open source software and then complain that it doesn't work or your db got wiped out or whatever that is.

When you are using open source software, I think you should acknowledge that it might have bugs and issues that you'll need to figure out on your own (or with some help).

In general I strongly believe that nodebb is a great forum software, but I think it can't really be used by people that have no programming experience, or IT experience. Not at this point in time.
I've been a senior software engineer for more than 10 years and it even took me quite a while to get the grasp of it and install it and configure it in a more proper manner.

What I want to say in reality is, that if you can't understand that you need to set a firewall behind your DB, password your DB etc, you shouldn't been trying to use nodebb as your forum software but something else that is much easier to the non techy user, or buy a solution that comes preintalled by the nodebb team.

Go to your config.json under /nodebb/config.json check that the host is correct (usually 127.0.0.1) and port (usually 6379) and password (default is "") i dont recommend not having a password.

also try to restart your redis server.

Another way also is to type: redis-cli on your terminal and see if that connects you to your local redis server

@Kowlin said:

Well am I the only one a bit troubled about the fact that the default Redis security is so easy to avoid. I opened my Redis port from my router and connected to it without any single problem...

What do you mean? ... any database is quite easy to get in if the guy that has set it up is not taking any security measures...

use IP tables and block the port, boom noone can connect apart from your localhost... and put a password on the config file(just for additional security)... thats all it needs

My get would be that any db you use u'd want to do the same unless you want to have remote access to that db, which makes no sense in the modern world we live in cause exposing your db to the public is just BAD. A db nowadays should be clearly set to be accessed on a localhost level only and then you can use an api to access its data from another connection.

Hey,

I get this info

Redis Version 3.0.5
Uptime in Seconds 357,824
Uptime in Days 4
Connected Clients 22
Connected Slaves 0
Blocked Clients 0
Used Memory 1.48M
Memory Fragmentation Ratio 6.34
Total Connections Received 25
Total Commands Processed 360,234
Instantaneous Ops. Per Second 76
Keyspace Hits 151,557
Keyspace Misses 56,461

Everytime I refresh my dashboard redis info tab, I get 1 more connected client and obviously the memory is going up.

Is that something that is supposed to be happening? Should I report it as a bug? let me know

Thanks for that psychobunny, well I most certainly will, but I am using a very customized persona theme so not really keen on upgrading it.

I do believe its much easier to be done on the admin panel, cause then you don't need to include security on who's to see a users IP or not.

Is there a chance for you providing me with the value that gets the ip? e.g { user.IP} or whatever that might be and then I can add it myself as well.

thanks again for your time.

Hey,

I have few questions for the community.

1. Is there a way I can make views to be unique by IP?
2. Is there a way to view a members IP? (I found a post here saying that you can view it from their user profile but that is not the case, if it is could anyone post a SS of where it is?)
3. Can I turn off Auto updates? Unfortunately so far I've hacked the persona template way too much to match the theme I wanted, and when someone is updating e.g a button to something its destroying my styling. I understand that its not good to be using another template on top of a default template but that's the only way I could figure it out for now. It would just be neat to be able to turn those updates off and choose when I want to actually install something or not.

great forum software, keep it up, I am really happy so far. (Only small downsite is cloudflare and websockets, and redis as a primary db)

thanks for that boys I worked it out

I had the same issue before, make sure to add the forum next to location in your nginz

Location /forum

And apart from the /forum on your local proxy change it on your configuration. Js on in your nodebb folder

Sorry am from mobile and it's kinda hard to paste code

Hey

I am trying to configure an autostartup for my nodebb when a reboot has been done, I've tried everything that is posted on https://community.nodebb.org/topic/4693/is-it-possible-to-auto-start-nodebb-in-the-startup-of-the-server/3

plus several other things I found online.

Anyone has any ideas on how to make this work? It doesn't seem to autostart on startup even after having the same things on sysv-rc-conf with e.g nginx that has autostartup.

Thanks