Fixed a problem for me on a new test server too. Thanks @baris !

@julian I've had a server under light load on a $5 Digital Ocean for over a year without a crash. The trick seems to be large amounts of swap.

Found the solution, It turns out that I had missed this blog post before upgrading to 1.4.x:

Introducing the build system in v1.4.x

./nodebb build

Interesting, I had thought they were in /public/templates. Was that in older versions?

In any event, the server wasn't loading new templates coming in with an updated plugin.

I'm in the process of trying out a few things with the server now.

I recently deployed a new public Ubuntu server with Nodebb 1.4.3 and then upgraded to 1.4.4. For some reason, my plugin's template files are not being loaded into the nodebb/plugin/templates directory now.

Has anyone seen anything like this before?

Locally, when I do a "./nodebb dev" startup I see this in my logs:

6/3 16:14 [28897] - verbose: [plugins] /header.tpl replaced by ...

On my public server I don't see this even when doing the dev start.

To set up this new server, I followed the docs here: https://nodebb.readthedocs.io/en/latest/installing/os/ubuntu.html

Any ideas?

Never mind, it was a simple memory issue that was causing npm install to die.

Fixed with these instructions:

Hi guys,

I'm doing an install of nodebb v1.4.3 on a clean new Ubuntu 16.04 server and following the instructions from:
https://docs.nodebb.org/en/latest/installing/os/ubuntu.html

The instructions seem to be evolving nicely, but I ran into an error with he npm dependency installation:

$ sudo npm install --production

npm WARN deprecated mongodb@2.2.16: Please upgrade to 2.2.19 or higher
npm WARN deprecated wrench@1.5.9: wrench.js is deprecated! You should check out fs-extra (https://github.com/jprichardson/node-fs-extra) for any operations you were using wrench for. Thanks for all the usage over the years.
Killed          ...] | extract:passport-local: sill gunzTarPerm extractEntry less/bootstrap-rtl/pager-rtl.less


$ sudo ./nodebb setup

NodeBB could not be started because it's dependencies have not been installed.
Please ensure that you have executed "npm install --production" prior to running NodeBB.

For more information, please see: https://docs.nodebb.org/en/latest/installing/os.html

Could not start: MODULE_NOT_FOUND

Any advice?

Thanks!

I wanted to debug some code I had written in my plugin and did a quick search to see if I could create a Node.js REPL that would function in the context of my plugin. It turned out to be quite simple to do.

Just add this to your plugin's static:app.load method:

      setTimeout(function() {
        console.log("About to start REPL");
        var repl = require("repl");

        var util = require('util');
        var replServer = repl.start({
          prompt: "swf-cms> ",
          breakEvalOnSigint: true,
          ignoreUndefined: true,
          useGlobal: true,
          useColors: true
        });

        var context = replServer.context;
        context.require = require;
        context.module = module;
        
        context.context = util.inspect(replServer.context, {depth: 0});
      }, 3000);

You'll want to wrap this in something to prevent it from running outside of dev mode. Also, load up the context object with anything that you want to be conveniently available in the REPL. FYI, I used the setTimeout to give Nodebb a chance to finish loading before it gives you the prompt.

Have fun.

@julian Yikes!

@julian Thanks.

Should something be changed in the acp so that a remote error doesn't prevent management of NodeBB installs everywhere?