@Flemming-Hansen said in Memory (MongoDB):

Agree, but D.O. does not reccomend swap on their SSDs, due to to hardware degradation...
Maybe not such an issue with my low usage?

Just discovered #define ENOMEM 12 /* Out of memory */

If you're concerned about hardware degradation, set up swap and set the swapiness value to 1! Then no process will get out of memory while no swap will be used if it is not needed.

What did you try already?

You should install NodeJS first from www.nodejs.org
Install mongo or redis, depending on which one you would like to use. If you use a hosted service for those, then skip this step.
Then download NodeBB from github. I'd recommend to use GIT for that, but you can also just download the .zip in the releases folder.

If you use the ZIP: unpack in the folder you'd like to use it in.
If you use GIT: then you're ok now

Go to the folder you've got the NodeJS system files. Open command prompt in this folder.
Type "npm install"
Wait until everything is installed. If it fails, check if you've got the correct building tools installed to your OS (it should be if you're using windows 2008 I thought)

Type "nodebb setup", enter the details

If you're done, do "nodebb start" and nodebb starts

Next: in production you would like to set up a reverse proxy. Check docs.nodebb.org how to do this with windows IIS

Do you want a redirect to that page or do you want to keep the navigation bar?

In the first case: on the ACP you can change the navigation bar.

In the second case: there is a plugin that provides custom routes. I don't know the name but i can look it up!

This can be a begin! https://community.nodebb.org/topic/9063/nodebb-plugin-category-sort-by-votes-sort-topics-by-votes-within-a-category

I think it's related to this change: https://github.com/NodeBB/NodeBB/commit/aac0313f2eb87123347c5925a134adcd57fb869e

In here the universally slashes are replaced by OS defaults which seems to cause the windows related errors. I'll check out later if there is no similar open issue and otherwise I'll open one.

0 barisusakli committed to NodeBB/NodeBB

closes #4917

@kenygamer That doesn't make sense to me. Servers with more resources are more cost-efficient than servers with less resources, just because the administrative costs are lots higher for cheaper servers...

@MBFTOM You've installed it at the wrong location. It's installed in your root directory, whereas you should install it in the directory of the NodeBB installation (that is, where the starter script is also located). When you run "npm install [pluginname]" there, it'll work

Good luck!

As far as I know there is no eCommerce module for NodeBB.

@JasperNL said in Emoji in Username:

Usernames aren't limited to ASCII, as you can also register Chinese usernames (for instance, try 你好 ). I suppose it's possible to register usernames containing emoji unicode characters (). However, these usernames cannot be registered. The form disallows the use of these characters, and maybe there are also server-sided checks. In order to allow these characters, removing the checks (unsafe) or adding emoji characters to the checks (safe) from the source code would suffice.

But keep in mind that the character is different than , as the first one is unicode and the second one an image. Whatever emoji you want to use, it will have a unicode equivalent.

You can start with tweaking the client-sided script:
https://github.com/NodeBB/NodeBB/blob/master/public/src/client/register.js

The function you will need to tweak is validateUsername. The problem with unicode emoji appears to be that utils.slugify does not seem to allow those characters. I think it's best to start with tweaking utils.slugify. You can find that in this file, line 77.
https://github.com/NodeBB/NodeBB/blob/master/public/src/utils.js

@brophy Cool to see another MTA community here

Adding both redis and mongo and setting mongo as default DB driver only uses redis to store sessions with and no cached posts or quick-served pages? In that case, I'll keep Redis around.

@chrispy said in Nodebb Hosting - Fully Managed - Simple to use:

ALL INSTANCES COME WITH A 10GBPS CONNECTION! This means that NO LAG is anywhere to be found. Your Nodebb install will load in seconds no matter who accesses it.

If you're using Vultr (as your IP suggests), then 10GBPS is only accessable from their bare metal instances, and not from their VPS instances. The 10GBPS is also "burst", so not guaranteed. Neither does the connection speed mean that it has "no lagg anywhere to be found" because of peering: especially asian customers (Japan, Singapore, India, Korea) cannot get close to 10 MBits when connecting to the US instances of Vultr, even if the instance has a 10GBPS port.

I also believe that you share your resources over all or a portion of your customers, because of the price. That may be worth mentioning as well, as it's an obvious deal-breaker for many customers.

@baris said in How to Load Balance for all CPU Cores:

@pummelchen There is an issue in one of our dependency that effects mongodb, https://github.com/scttnlsn/mubsub/issues/61, in the meantime you can install redis and add a redis block in your config.json so pubsub uses redis instead of mongodb. That should get rid of the error you are seeing in the logs.

I had the same error. Adding redis as additional db did the trick. A question: if it's fixed, can i disable redis without a problem or should I flush changes to mongo somehow? (Memory is scarce, so I prefer to disable redis if possible)

I think this is a good tutorial, and will prove useful to many users! However, I have some remarks that I'll list below.

DNS

What has DNS to do with a stack? Not a lot, thats right, but as in my previous guide we will target the maximum possible performance. Therefore, we will also try to reduce the DNS resolving time.
To achieve this we will route our domain through CloudFlare. Just sign up and follow the instructions. Once done be sure to have DISABLED CloudFlare in the DNS settings (grey clouds).

But why? Due to the use of CloudFlare the server response time can be delayed around 0,7s, which is quite a lot, considering we want the maximum performance. Instead we will just make use of CloudFlare's fast DNS network.

Depending on the scale you want to deploy the server on, cloudflare can actually be a good idea. Especially if you're afraid of DDoS attacks. There are basically three "modes" that you can choose from

1. The mode in which you do not use anything of cloudflare, which you suggest.
2. The mode in which you use cloudflare to cache static assets, but route websockets through your own server. This can be achieved by setting the socket.io parts in config.json. This does not save you from DDoS attacks, as the origin server can be found quite easily. This is the mode that I would recommend.
3. Use cloudflare as websocket proxy. This secures you from DDoS attacks and works fine. This mode has a lot of cons, because cloudflare can kill the websocket connections without any specific reason, and you have the cloudflare proxy delay that you're considering. I would recommend this for small-scale sites only.

Security

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Change it to a number like 1990 for example. Once edited hit Ctrl+X. Confirm with Y.

Auts. This is not secure. Besides the "security by obscurity" arguments that this insecure, there are also practical objections with this port. Any port >1024 can be hijacked by any user on the box, whereas ports <1024 are reserved for the system/root user. So if you want to change the port (because you may believe that it's actually secure), keep it <1024!

I always recommend to keep the SSH service at port 22 (as this is designed for it). For security, you can install fail2ban and set up a SSH keypair authentication instead of password authentication. Also: If your host gives you a root password, the first thing you should do is changing it!

Database

Now lets get onto NodeBB. Instead of MongoDB, we will skip into the future and go with Redis. Super fast, super simple.

MongoDB has a future as well, and the benefits of redis over mongo.

Again, great tutorial!

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@guangzhen said in Who is using NodeBB?:

@baris I'm using NodeBB as a forum for my iOS app, Thanks NodeBB

Google

Your automatic translation creates some style overflows when "topics" and "messages" are translated to somewhat large words That may be something to look at

Imgur

Many forum/blog software comes with two German language versions, formal and informal. As German is already quite well translated, maybe it's an idea to create a branch of the current one, and call it "German Informal". (or German Formal, depends on what's better)

You should specify in your config file that the NodeBB URL is indeed https. Then the newly uploaded images will have an HTTPS url automatically.