@pichalite I'm new to nodebb, can you direct me to the log file

I have not. From the ACP menu, I chose Restart Forum

thanks @julian

From ACP, when I choose Select Theme the page responds with a message to reload the server and the text on the selected theme says Current Theme but after restarting the forum and reloading the Themes page in ACP, the theme is no longer the current one.

here is the error message I receive when trying to install plugins from the /admin site. The forum is running on an EC2 in AWS.

nodebb is running on a EC2 instance ( linux ). the eb deploy is a CLI command that uploads to AWS and deploys the latest code. My config.json file on the EC2 instance is not overriden. The only effect is that when I reload the homepage, it shows the initial setup admin user page.

When using eb deploy on AWS, the deploy is successful but when the homepage is refreshed, NodeBB returns to the original setup page for an admin account. If re-enter the admin account info and then refresh a few times, the site does come back up and no data has been lost.

Any thoughts on this issue?

thanks