@MarximusMG said:

@julian quick question, as I'm setting up automated backups following Digital Ocean's guide.

If I use the following entry at the end of the cron file, will that automate hourly backups? How do I set the total number of backups the server will store before deleting them?

@hourly rdiff-backup --preserve-numerical-ids --no-file-statistics /var/lib/redis /home/sammy/redis```

If anyone can provide some insight regarding these questions, I'd truly appreciate it! Thanks

@psychobunny thank you! As always, much appreciated.

@julian @pichalite I also just ran ./nodebb setup to get the forum back up again, but the styling is all wonky. Tried multiple browsers, cleared cache, etc. but still looks like this. ACP looks normal. Any thoughts on what's causing this?

Edit: I had sworn I already run sudo reboot but I must have missed that, as I just ran it, started NodeBB again, and all is normal.

@julian quick question, as I'm setting up automated backups following Digital Ocean's guide.

If I use the following entry at the end of the cron file, will that automate hourly backups? How do I set the total number of backups the server will store before deleting them?

@hourly rdiff-backup --preserve-numerical-ids --no-file-statistics /var/lib/redis /home/sammy/redis```

@julian great, thanks for the tips! Truly appreciate it. Learning from my mistakes and hoping that means a more secure setup moving forward.

@pichalite thank you for the response.

Unfortunately, I didn't have a firewall setup on the droplet, but I am adding that to a list of security measures I'll be taking now. Other than the firewall (and of course frequent backups as a contingency plan), am I missing anything else for a redis setup in terms of security?

Additionally, if (as I suspect) I'll have to start the forum from scratch, is it safe to assume my first step should be to run ./nodebb setup? Or is there anything else I should configure before starting over? (I'm already following Digital Ocean's guide for creating automatic Redis backups using rdiff-backup and cron).

Re: Lost all my data ? Help please

Just loaded up my forum to see that all the data was missing from the homepage. Only visible thing is the header with the logo. Users are completely gone, categories not visible, etc.

After reading through various threads (such as the one above) here, it seems like I'm SOL. Is this true? As this is a fairly new site, I had been relying on the weekly backup setup through Digital Ocean, and (foolishly) hadn't setup a frequent backup solution yet. So unfortunately no backup available to restore.

I've checked that bind 127.0.0.1 is already in the redis.conf file, which I thought was one way to prevent this issue from happening. What exactly happened here, and is there ANYTHING I can do to get things back in working order?

@psychobunny Is the plugin pulling the image source from WordPress' core files, or is the source image set in the plugin files themselves?

@psychobunny Quick question - in what file would I be able to change the source image for the default avatar shown (before a user is logged in/registered)? Having a hard time locating it. Thanks again!

@psychobunny After confirming that the new setup worked perfectly with the plugin, I configured the WordPress install and tried publishing the series of posts I had lined up. Again, I got this as a response:

{"error":"Unable to post topic"}

After rocking back and forth in the corner for a minute or so, I figured out what the issue was this time around. I didn't realize that the plugin carried over the tags from the WP post, and every post I was trying to publish over to NodeBB had >5 tags, which led to NodeBB rejecting the new topic. I simply increased the default max # of tags allowed in the NodeBB ACP, and voila - problem solved.

Thought I'd post this in case it can save anyone else a bit of time in the future!

@julian FWIW, what you just described is what drew me to NodeBB and clinched the decision to use it over the alternatives.

Nevermind - still wasn't able to figure out what was causing the error to still be present on this particular install, but I decided to do a clean install of NodeBB and it's working perfectly just like the other setups. Thanks again!

@psychobunny is there any reason why WordPress 4.4.2 would cause issues with this fix? I've used it successfully on two sites running 4.4.1, and tried a third running 4.4.2 and getting the original error message (strangely, some of the time it doesn't load the "unexpected end of input" error message but rather

{"error":"Unable to post topic"}

@psychobunny thank you for the clarification. Just wanted to make sure it was only needed in one place without any additional setup or configuration. Once again, thank you for taking the time to look at this!

@psychobunny you're the man. Thank you SO much. Working perfectly.

One final question: at the risk of continuing to show my newbie card, could I please ask where the following line needs to be added for WordPress posts to display NodeBB author info?

Published by <span id="nodebb-comments-author"></span> in <span id="nodebb-comments-category"></span>

I'm assuming it would just need to be inserted once into a PHP file in the WordPress install?

@psychobunny nope, it's not.

@psychobunny thanks. Just thought I'd mention those points in case it brought something to light. And again, much appreciated.

@psychobunny trying to think of any additional info I could provide regarding my setup or the error itself. Please let me know if I have yet to elaborate on some piece of info that could help in pinpointing the error.

@psychobunny may be another silly thing to ask, but thought I'd give every piece of information I can, however irrelevant it may seem, just in case.

I'm logged in as admin on both Wordpress and NodeBB, both accounts have the same name, etc. Didn't know if there were any stringent requirements with respect to these accounts needing to be identical in some way in order for the publishing to be authorized by NodeBB.