@scuzz said in Moving a NodeBB mongo DB from one server to another.:

Once the database has been restored correctly you can run the NodeBB installer.

When it asks for the database you will just tell it the database name of the database you just restored.

This should then install NodeBB with your old database.

Yes, this has worked for me as well.

Making a backup of the nodebb database on the old server, for example:

mongodump -u nodebb -p [password] -d nodebb -o dump/nodebb-2018-03-30

Restoring the nodebb database from that backup, after copying it to the new server:

mongorestore -u nodebb -p [password] -d nodebb dump/nodebb-2018-03-30/nodebb/

And then installing NodeBB on the new server.

When creating a new category, in my opinion spiders should have the same access privileges of guests by default, because in most cases people expect their forums to be public and indexed by Google, etc. They can change the settings when creating a private category.

Looking at the NodeBB data on Open Hub (stats on open source projects), it seems a reliable project with continuing daily work. Congrats on that.

By the way, NodeBB is nearing the 100,000 lines of code soon:

You can also try Solr search for NodeBB.

First install solr-jetty (jetty is lighter and has better performance than tomcat):

sudo apt-get install solr-jetty

(This also automatically installs the many needed dependencies, basically Java packages).

Optional: Temporarily open port 8080 if you want to see Solr admin (not needed):

http://example.com:8080/solr/

(Port 8080 worked for me; if not, try 8983).

Then install NodeBB's Solr plugin:

NodeBB Admin > Extend > Plugins > Find Plugins > nodebb-plugin-solr > Install

Then activate the plugin, restart NodeBB, reload admin page, and go to:

Plugins > Apache Solr

Configuration:

Host: localhost
Port: 8080
Path: /solr

Save Settings

Reload NodeBB and admin page.

Connected

Indexing Enabled

Rebuild Search Index

Disable port 8080 (or 8983) on firewall for security.

It works well.

@atayz said:

Yet the dbsearch doesn't support non-Roman alphabet languages for some reason

You can try the NodeBB plugin for Solr search (open source), that supports a large number of languages, including Chinese, Japanese, Arabic, etc. See step by step details.

@meetdilip: If the self-moderation system is abused, a solution could be a settings option to increase the number of users flagging a post to automatically hide it.

@faizanzahid Those in the screenshot are the global privileges. You want to change the category privileges, selecting each category (see up to the right), at least the root ones. There is also a button to copy privileges to the children categories.

@abhinov-singh With a normal configuration, NodeBB needs MongoDB running. You can check it with:

service mongod status

Also, you can try from your nodebb folder:

./nodebb status
./nodebb restart

See also your nodebb/logs/output.log file, or just the recent lines with:

./nodebb log

(Ctrl-C to exit)

@a1nb0 Maybe others can help you. I maintain just a couple of sites with Ghost as root and NodeBB in a /community subfolder. The only integration I’m using, apart from the menu links, is the NodeBB plugin for blog comments integration, which I think is currently the only Ghost–NodeBB integration that works out of the box after simple configuration. All the user management on those specific sites is done within NodeBB only.

For other integrations, I don’t know the details, only a few very basic concepts, but probably you would need to do some development work, or at least extensive reading, adaptation, and customization.

For example, for SSO (Single Sign-On) using OAuth 2.0 with oauth2orize for Node.js—since both NodeBB and Ghost are on Node.js—you can study these possibilities:

• NodeBB OAuth SSO (search also for related threads on this forum).
• How does OAuth work with Ghost?

To code other possible integrations, see NodeBB's Write API and Ghost's API.

@dlooshi
https://docs.nodebb.org/

@abhinov-singh If you are using Nginx on Ubuntu, the configuration files or symlinks (including ports, etc.) are at /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/
See also which ports are left open by your firewalls (server, PC).

Glad to read that.

Maybe I can try using Date.now() instead of now, but I don't know if that's right for this.

@atayz said in The future of Nodebb:

a multi-language search(non-roman alphabet)?

Apache Solr search supports a large number of languages.
Excellent NodeBB's Solr integration by Julian: nodebb-plugin-solr.

@aaron-murray Although the Blog Comments plugin is mainly for Ghost and WordPress, it also includes some suggestions for other kinds of sites—on different template engines—in the General section of the Readme.

Not sure for static sites, but they say: “If you don't have such ID, you can use this function that generates a unique ID from the URL”.

@atayz said:

Sadly, solr doesn't work for me

Just in case you maybe didn't, remember to install Solr itself as well on your VPS, not just the plugin. I wrote some step by step details recently.

@renaissance said:

Spanish translation of NodeBB is 100% finished and ready to deploy!!!

Thank you very much!

Maybe the stats include bot traffic (search spiders) visiting pages for updates, unless they are filtered. You could compare for example with Google Analytics results.

@syl said:

the "tag intersection" feature (an URL that lists all topics containing both tag1 and tag2). There is no such feature in nodeBB, am I right?

To get the JSON, we can prepend api/ to the URL. For example, for the tag "plugin" the topic list is:

plugin

A community to talk about development and ask questions about NodeBB modern forum software

NodeBB Community (community.nodebb.org)

and the JSON:

https://community.nodebb.org/api/tags/plugin

However, this is for one tag. I don't know if there is a way for more than one.

Related info:

• Rendering Engine - NodeBB Documentation
• NodeBB’s Write API
• nodebb-plugin-blog-comments
• [nodebb-plugin-blog-comments] Blog Commenting Engine (Ghost, Wordpress widget)

@paopevil said in Ghost cms with Nodebb in one VPS:

but Discourse and Nodebb are better source code so you?

Maybe you mean a comparison. I can give my personal view:

• Both are excellent, and the two best known next-generation forum applications.
• Discourse is a Ruby on Rails app, while NodeBB is a Node.js app.
• Discourse has more bells and whistles, while NodeBB is a bit simpler and more lightweight but with all the necessary features and more without being heavy on the servers.
• Discourse needs more server resources, while NodeBB is faster and more performant with less resources needed.
• In my humble opinion, Discourse's famous leader is very interesting and brilliant but very opinionated and can say repeatedly no to some user's frequent requests (e.g. over two category levels, pagination, etc.), while NodeBB's people are also very talented but more flexible trying to give options to the users.

At the end of the day, both applications are really good and innovative, probably the best options for communities today.