So far so good

All I'm going to say is that you will be mistreated if you use MyBB (by their community). I'm not going to post the link to my rant here but send me a chat message if you want to hear more about my horrible experience.

@pitaj Something similar to MyBB's template and CSS editor where I can edit the templates and css stylesheets within the admin panel.

Is their an exporter for NodeBB to switch back to MyBB or other forum software?

To elaborate more: NodeBB is good software but without a CSS and Template Editor it simply doesn't meet my needs and I'd like to switch back to MyBB if at all possible.

I would like to get into theme development for NodeBB (I don't have $3,000 to pay the core team to do things for me) however unless I'm insane there's not a html template nor CSS editor. What resources are out there to help me get into theme development on NodeBB?

@shard I probably have the world's most unique edgecase

Sidenote for huge IP Ban Lists run the following bash script:

for i in `cat ./list.txt`; do echo 'deny' $i';' >> denyips.conf; done

list.txt being a list of IP addresses/ranges one IP / Range per line, denyips.conf being the file you give to the nginx proxy.

root@vps146875:/etc/nginx# wc -l ./denyips.conf
158740 ./denyips.conf

it took like a second to do it's thing very fast for so many lines.

@julian Ok on staging I ran nodebb reset -p to deactivate all plugins, I ran th commands to upgrade, and now nodebb is running at 100% CPU on the staging server.

root@NodeBB-Staging:/var/www/html/NodeBB# curl -I http://127.0.0.1:4567
curl: (7) Failed to connect to 127.0.0.1 port 4567: Connection refused
root@NodeBB-Staging:/var/www/html/NodeBB# ./nodebb log

Hit Ctrl-C to exit

This program comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions.
For the full license, please visit: http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html

Clustering enabled: Spinning up 1 process(es).

16/10 15:17:25 [3728] - info: Initializing NodeBB v1.6.1 https://staging.sinfulforums.net:443
16/10 15:17:25 [3728] - warn: You have no mongo username/password setup!
16/10 15:17:28 [3728] - info: [socket.io] Restricting access to origin: *:*
16/10 15:17:28 [3728] - info: Routes added

CPU and RAM at 100% utilization by the way.

@julian Sorry about the delays, file transfers took a bit longer than expected. I have a staging server setup at https://staging.sinfulforums.net/login/2fa, if you'd like I can send you SSH Credentials to Staging. I'm fixing a few things regarding plugins. It still has certain plugins deactivated breaking login so I'm working on a fix for that then we can start working on an upgrade tactic.

@julian Staging server will be ready in 10 minutes. In SSH now I just need a few minutes to setup.

I was able to successfully rollback to 1.6.0 however I'd still like to upgrade to 1.6.1 as soon as possible. Now that I'm all rolled back, what steps do you recommend I take to upgrade?

After upgrading to NodeBB 1.6.1 I am unable to start the service.

./nodebb dev output:

root@vps146875:/var/www/sinfulforumsnet/NodeBB# ./nodebb dev

NodeBB v1.6.1 Copyright (C) 2013-2014 NodeBB Inc.
This program comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions.
For the full license, please visit: http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html

Clustering enabled: Spinning up 1 process(es).

16/10 09:22:46 [1783] - verbose: * using configuration stored in: /var/www/sinfulforumsnet/NodeBB/config.json
16/10 09:22:46 [1783] - info: Initializing NodeBB v1.6.1 https://sinfulforums.net:443
16/10 09:22:46 [1783] - verbose: * using mongo store at 127.0.0.1:27017
16/10 09:22:46 [1783] - verbose: * using themes stored in: /var/www/sinfulforumsnet/NodeBB/node_modules
16/10 09:22:46 [1783] - warn: You have no mongo username/password setup!
16/10 09:22:50 [1783] - verbose: [minifier] utilizing a maximum of 0 additional threads
16/10 09:22:50 [1783] - verbose: Checking dependencies for outdated modules
16/10 09:22:51 [1783] - verbose: [notifications.init] Registering jobs.
16/10 09:22:51 [1783] - verbose: [user/jobs] (Re-)starting user jobs...
16/10 09:22:51 [1783] - verbose: [user/jobs] Starting job (digest.daily)
16/10 09:22:51 [1783] - verbose: [user/jobs] Starting job (digest.weekly)
16/10 09:22:51 [1783] - verbose: [user/jobs] Starting job (digest.monthly)
16/10 09:22:51 [1783] - verbose: [user/jobs] Starting job (reset.clean)
16/10 09:22:51 [1783] - verbose: [user/jobs] 4 jobs started
16/10 09:22:51 [1783] - verbose: [emailer] Setting up SMTP fallback transport
16/10 09:22:51 [1783] - info: [themes] Using theme nodebb-theme-persona
16/10 09:22:51 [1783] - verbose: [plugins] Initializing plugins system
16/10 09:22:51 [1783] - verbose: [plugins] Loaded plugin: nodebb-plugin-composer-default
16/10 09:22:51 [1783] - verbose: [plugins] Loaded plugin: nodebb-theme-persona
16/10 09:22:51 [1783] - verbose: [plugins] Loaded plugin: nodebb-plugin-markdown
16/10 09:22:51 [1783] - verbose: [plugins] Loaded plugin: nodebb-plugin-mentions
16/10 09:22:51 [1783] - verbose: [plugins] Loaded plugin: nodebb-widget-essentials
16/10 09:22:51 [1783] - verbose: [plugins] Loaded plugin: nodebb-rewards-essentials
16/10 09:22:51 [1783] - verbose: [plugins] Found 3 sound file(s) for plugin nodebb-plugin-soundpack-default
16/10 09:22:51 [1783] - verbose: [plugins] Loaded plugin: nodebb-plugin-soundpack-default
16/10 09:22:51 [1783] - verbose: [plugins] Loaded plugin: nodebb-plugin-emoji-extended
16/10 09:22:51 [1783] - verbose: [plugins] Loaded plugin: nodebb-plugin-emoji-one
16/10 09:22:51 [1783] - verbose: [plugins] Loaded plugin: nodebb-plugin-2factor
16/10 09:22:51 [1783] - warn: [plugins/nodebb-plugin-spam-be-gone] Hook `action:flag.create` is deprecated, please use `action:flags.create` instead.
16/10 09:22:51 [1783] - verbose: [plugins] Loaded plugin: nodebb-plugin-spam-be-gone
16/10 09:22:51 [1783] - verbose: [plugins] Loaded plugin: nodebb-plugin-emailer-smtp
16/10 09:22:51 [1783] - verbose: [plugins] Loaded plugin: nodebb-plugin-dbsearch
16/10 09:22:51 [1783] - verbose: [plugins] Loaded plugin: nodebb-plugin-emailer-sendgrid
16/10 09:22:51 [1783] - verbose: [plugins] Loaded plugin: nodebb-plugin-imgur
16/10 09:22:51 [1783] - verbose: [plugins] Loaded plugin: nodebb-plugin-desktop-notifications
16/10 09:22:51 [1783] - info: [plugins] Plugins OK
16/10 09:22:52 [1783] - info: [plugins/spam-be-gone] Settings loaded
16/10 09:22:52 [1783] - verbose: [hotswap] Router with id `plugins` replaced successfully
16/10 09:22:52 [1783] - verbose: [plugins] All plugins reloaded and rerouted
16/10 09:22:52 [1783] - verbose: [hotswap] Router with id `auth` replaced successfully
16/10 09:22:52 [1783] - info: Routes added

NodeBB reports as started however it won't listen to incoming connections. If I run ./nodebb stop the processes don't stop until I run killall node.

I've tried the following:

• A git hard reset to v.1.6.x
• ./nodebb reset -p to reset the plugins

My production site is currently down. What's the recommended action to get it back up and running?

Sidenote: NodeBB runs at 100% CPU and won't stop processes without a reboot.