Hello,

I was wondering if it's possible to change the birthday date format in the user profile from (mm/dd/year) to (dd/mm/year)?

Thanks in advance

@yariplus Worked perfectly Thanks alot!

Is it possible to hide a custom page made with the custom page plugin? Ive created a frontpage that i want to hide from users that are alrdy logged in, but it should still be displayed for users that are not logged in. Is this possible?

@julian Ah i see, any idea how i can fix that? I've followed the guide at https://docs.nodebb.org/installing/os/ubuntu/ and created the users exactly like the guide said.

I'm currently setting up my NodeBB installation on my DigitalOcean server, and I'm getting a few errors. So to start with, I can't get anything working if i run ./nodebb setup. I enter all the details, which goes smoothly and then if i try to launch the site on my domain I receive this error:

My config.json looks like this:

If i then delete my config.json and run ./nodebb start everything starts correctly, and I'm able to go onto my domain and i then get to the NodeBB web installer.

After entering the details in the web installer i receive this message in the terminal:

And this message on the web installer:

This time the config.json is identical to the ./nodebb setup one, except that it doesn't contain the username and password fields.

I have done everything database wise according to the guide at https://docs.nodebb.org/installing/os/ubuntu/ for the mongodb setup.

Nodebb, npm and node, mongodb, and nginx are all up-to-date and have been restarted several times. I've checked mongodb and nginx status which are both active. I've tried several different versions of mongodb with the same results.

From what I've been able to read, it seems that the web installer can't connect to the database for some reason, and that's why i receive that error. What i don't understand is why the ./nodebb setup wont work at all.

Does anyone have any idea how I can get my nodebb installation working? I've been trying for weeks now.

Thanks in advance!

@teh_g I changed the nginx configuration to what is displayed in the docs, which now works. Nginx is working fine and im using Node v.8.2.1 - I've tried using 6.11.2 which didn't work for me at all. It wouldn't let me use the npm install --production command without crashing, which 8.2.1 will.

Thanks for the replies. I've changed a bit in the setup after looking through guides, and suggestions, and I'm now at a place where I can get the Nodebb installer to show up on my domain. It then wants me to enter my username, email and database type and after i do that my terminal nodebb starts working a lot, and then stops at this point and then nothing happens. At the same time the web installer on the domain just refreshes the site, and allows me to type in the details again. If i do that the same process just starts over again in the terminal. If i CTRL-C the terminal, and then refreshes the domain it tells me bad gateway. Here's a picture of where it just keeps thinking and nothing happens:

I've tried both the mongo and redis database, and i have both installed and setup from the nodebb docs guide.

Appreciate the help

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Hey everyone,

I'm trying to publish my Nodebb forum on my server but I'm having a bit of trouble.

I currently have everything set up on my Ubuntu 16.04 digital ocean droplet server (mongo, node, npm and nginx), and I can get static pages working, but whenever i try to link to the nodebb directory instead of a static page directory i receive this error:

Error: Failed to lookup view "500" in views directory "/var/www/nodebb/build/public/templates"
    at Function.render (/var/www/nodebb/node_modules/express/lib/application.js:580:17)
    at ServerResponse.render (/var/www/nodebb/node_modules/express/lib/response.js:971:7)
    at content (/var/www/nodebb/src/middleware/render.js:82:15)
    at /var/www/nodebb/node_modules/async/dist/async.js:3830:24
    at replenish (/var/www/nodebb/node_modules/async/dist/async.js:946:17)
    at /var/www/nodebb/node_modules/async/dist/async.js:950:9
    at eachOfLimit (/var/www/nodebb/node_modules/async/dist/async.js:975:24)
    at /var/www/nodebb/node_modules/async/dist/async.js:980:16
    at eachOf (/var/www/nodebb/node_modules/async/dist/async.js:1051:5)
    at _parallel (/var/www/nodebb/node_modules/async/dist/async.js:3829:5)
    at Object.parallelLimit [as parallel] (/var/www/nodebb/node_modules/async/dist/async.js:3912:5)
    at async.waterfall.str (/var/www/nodebb/src/middleware/render.js:77:12)
    at nextTask (/var/www/nodebb/node_modules/async/dist/async.js:5273:14)
    at next (/var/www/nodebb/node_modules/async/dist/async.js:5280:9)
    at /var/www/nodebb/node_modules/async/dist/async.js:906:16
    at /var/www/nodebb/node_modules/async/dist/async.js:421:16

I've tried doing everything the docs say, and I've also tried other stuff like reinstalling everything, rerunning ./nodebb setup and ./nodebb build.
I've checked the config.json which looks like this:

{
    "url": "http://dogster.dk",
    "secret": "d2069ebe-2876-4c9a-89c0-758e42b4e779",
    "database": "mongo",
    "port": "4567",
    "mongo": {
        "host": "127.0.0.1",
        "port": "27017",
        "username": "my_username",
        "password": "my_password",
        "database": "nodebb"
    }
}

I've also tried ./nodebb reset -p.

I've been messing around with the /etc/nginx/sites-available and /etc/nginx/sites-enabled which are both linked.

The files look like this:

server {
    listen 80;
    server_name dogster.dk;
    location / {
    root /var/www/nodebb;
        proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr;
        proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
        proxy_set_header Host $http_host;
        proxy_set_header X-NginX-Proxy true;
        proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:4567/;
        proxy_redirect off;
        # Socket.IO Support
        proxy_http_version 1.1;
        proxy_set_header Upgrade $http_upgrade;
        proxy_set_header Connection "upgrade";
    }
}

And I've of course also restarted all the service multiple times (nginx, mongo and nodebb).

My nodebb directory is located in /var/www/nodebb

The overall problem is that if i reinstall nginx it starts off fresh and shows the nginx welcome html static page. But when im changing it to the nodebb by correcting all of the forementioned stuff i get the error.

I'd apprectiate some help alot.

Thanks for reading all of this if you made it this far.

Edited by pitaj. Please use code blocks in the future