What address do you have in config.json? Is there IP address or domain in "base_url" section? If you have IP address, try to change to domain and restart Nodebb.

@gvimlan said:

Why are we using reverse proxy?

Because a NodeBB server use 4567 as default and it is bound to all of the interfaces in a host computer. You may connect to server by http://ip:4567 probably. Nginx is needed to redirect connection to your server from port yourdomain.com:80 to localhost:4567.

Classic feel, yeah! It looks very nice, but '3 dots in column' button (for sharing posts) should be bigger imo . I can hardly click it .

I hope this is the most up to date version. You don't have to import database every time, to check if everything is parsed right. Regexes are used always on 'just after import' version of database.

Preparse regex:

content = content.replace(/<!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="(.*)">.*<\/a><!-- m -->/g, '$1');
content = content.replace(/<!--.*?--><img src="\{SMILIES_PATH\}\/.+?" alt="(.+?)" title=.+?\/><!--.*?-->/g, ' $1 ');
content = content.replace(/\[(.*?):\w+\]/g, "[$1]");
content = content.replace(/\[(\/\w+):\w+\]/g, "[$1]");

Postparse regex:

content = content.replace(/\\\[/g, '[');
content = content.replace(/\\\]/g, ']');
content = content.replace(/\@"(\w+)?" said:/g, '@$1 said:');

Bonus - Selenium IDE for Firefox script, which makes forum private You need sideflow extension to use it. Use it at categories page in ACP to see how it works.
http://pastebin.com/UdaT0FQF <-- deprecated since v0.7.0

I imported small phpbb3 database of our local students' community about 2 months ago. It took a lot of time to get it to work.
In that time:

• groups weren't imported
• I had to set by hand all of privileges to categories
• attachments weren't imported
• parents categories weren't imported
• current version was doubling first post of topic, and consequently I had to back to old version of plugins (nodebb-plugin-import and nodebb-plugin-import-phpbb) and back to plugins' supported version of NodeBB
• BBCode wasn't converted properly, so I had to use about 7 regex to correct that (automatic links, quote, redundant escaping characters, emoticons)
• avatars weren't imported (and it looks like they aren't imported because of that)

When I had some sort of that error, I just relaunched ./nodebb setup and it fixed problem.

After git pull something goes wrong with package.json, it couldn't automerge. If I were you, I would try to merge manually or I would just backup old package.json, download and put new one instead.

Why don't you try to set user.email and user.name like in example? If you don't want to make commits, you can set it to something random.

I've just checked it and both options above works.

Btw, my friend discovered, that nodebb-plugin-desktop-notifications doesn't work, because of changes in api of NodeBB. However, I don't remember what lines you have to change to repair it.