Sorry to necro a [somewhat] old topic, however, I've not used NodeBB for sometime now (only loosely followed it's development) and I'm wondering if migration from a somewhat vanilla phpBB3 installation is more or less seamless and without any major issues. Has somebody done it with good success?
I've got a big board that was started in 2002. Emphasis on "big"

@george-paraschiv

Do you need hosting for a production NodeBB or one for just testing and stuff like that? I could probably provide you with both, I've got unused resources that I could allocate for you. But I think for this I can only allocate 1 CPU and 4 threads, 2048MB mem and 100GB HDD space. But if you contact me with more details it will be easier to tailor the box.

Fire off a message with details and I'll help you out, I can be reached at i.am/@/k0nsl.org

Regards,
-k0nsl

apt-get install imagemagick

Oh, so it was that simple! Well, I can confirm it does work. Good, good.

info: Attempting upload to: /home/nodebb/nodebb/public/uploads/2-profileimg.jpg

Regards,
-k0nsl

I'm telling people about NodeBB and I'm also closely watching the development at GitHub, props on all the new changes — the new release, whenever it appears, will probably be damn good!

Regards,
-k0nsl

I never thought of running NodeBB as an isolated user because I am letting it run on a development box at the moment, so it was a oversight on my part
When I put it on the production box later on I will run it isolated.

Thanks for looking into it.

Regards,
-k0nsl

I plan on using NodeBB permanently at this addy:
http://konsortium.k0nsl.org/

Right now I'm experimenting and liking it, a lot. Excellent work, friends!

Regards,
-k0nsl

For some reason I suspected it had to do with 'Imgur Client ID', so I went ahead and clear it, leaving it all empty, then I tried to change my avatar and upload a new one. It resulted in this output:

[root@fretzchnid]# info: Attempting upload to: /root/nodebb/public/uploads/2-profileimg.jpg

events.js:72
        throw er; // Unhandled 'error' event
              ^
Error: spawn ENOENT
    at errnoException (child_process.js:980:11)
    at Process.ChildProcess._handle.onexit (child_process.js:771:34)

[1]+  Exit 8                  node app  (wd: ~/nodebb)
(wd now: ~/nodebb/public)
[root@fretzchnid]#

The folder 'uploads' is owned by root and is chmoded 777. I run this NodeBB as root.

PS:
I should also note that it only crashes the instance (the issue) - the avatar is actually uploaded and applied.

Regards,
-k0nsl

That's a little odd -- avatar uploading shouldn't invoke the emailer, and that's what the error seems to be talking about.

Can you try it again and see if it throws the same error?

Yes, it is the same error over & over - crashes the app instance so it must be re-deployed. Not sure why it does this.

Regards,
-k0nsl

PS:
It nevertheless uploaded the avatar.

-k0nsl

When I try to upload an avatar it throws this:

{ [Error: bad response on command 'RCPT']
  code: 2,
  smtp: '554 5.7.1 <sonntagskind(at)k0nsl.org>: Relay access denied\n' }
info: Attempting upload to: /root/nodebb/public/uploads/2-profileimg.jpg

events.js:72
        throw er; // Unhandled 'error' event
              ^
Error: spawn ENOENT
    at errnoException (child_process.js:980:11)
    at Process.ChildProcess._handle.onexit (child_process.js:771:34)

Faithfully,
-k0nsl