Ah okay, well good to know, I thought I was just unlucky. Thanks for looking into it. And I will look into having another server for testing in the future but not sure, I'm having enough trouble keeping one going as it is Haha

Oh ok, I guess sandboxing means for quick testing? Like it's not recommnded to use a real forum with just redis. OK thanks

Another question - let's say i set up a server and it has nodebb+nodejs+redis+mongodb...

and i make backups of only mongodb...

and the server crashes and i lose everything (but i still have my backup)...

can i set up a new server and install nodebb+nodejs+redis+mongodb... but this time maybe they have a new version of nodebb out, or something like v1.2...and then I run some utility to repopulate mongodb with my old data.....

will my new server work? what is the recommended way of doing things? because im a newbie and im sure i will be breaking things probably i already broke it twice today

Hello,
I have a newbie question on nodebb. I understand the recommended 'database' for nodebb is redis and nothing else. From what I've read on redis, it stores all the data in memory.
Let's say I have a 512mb ram server, if I get too many posts, does it crash because it needs to keep all posts in ram?
Thanks for your time

hello, thank you for asking. i tried to add this

npm install --save nodebb-plugin-videoplayer

nodebb-plugin-videoplayer

this plugin embeds an HTML5 video player. when upload a video this does not appear as a link but as players in the content. Accepted video formats MP4, WEBM, MOV, OGV.. Latest version: 0.0.6, last published: 9 years ago. Start using nodebb-plugin-videoplayer in your project by running `npm i nodebb-plugin-videoplayer`. There are no other projects in the npm registry using nodebb-plugin-videoplayer.

npm (www.npmjs.com)

i believe the start command happened to the remote server, because i dont even have it set up on my pc for it to work.

i know its not approved for v1.0 but i thought it would possibly work in some way (or should i wait for any plug in to be updated to say 1.0 before trying it?)

Aha that is amazing. Yes, that does help, thank you. Now i know, it's fine for me, but i dont think users will figure it out and might be turned off on first use.

Is there a number I can change somewhere in the source code to change this to be e.g. 75% of screen height for all users by default? The default value is nice but too low. Not a big deal but would be nice.

In short mode, it allows me to write off the screen which drives me a little crazy, and in tall mode, it blocks all the other replies 100%.

Are there any plugins or themes that change this behavior? I'm not even sure what the best way would be, but I'd just like to see other options. Even if there was one that worked the way old forums worked, I'd take that... or the way reddit works.

Thanks and sorry if sound too critical, it's still an amazing BBS!

Yay

thank you! maybe i will try doing the windows one first.

question if i use windows... if i modify my nodebb locally... and later upload it to a linux host, will that still work?

or should i make a linux VM and run nodebb... and then later if i upload that to a linux host it will work better?

sorry, i'm very new at this. ive only run a wordpress blog before but it was much simpler.

does this work if the person posts a link to a webm file, or must they upload it? also is this ever going to be updated to work with 1.0 (i know it just came out :3) but i tried the one i found on git and it didnt work

Hello,
I'm a newbie and trying to make my own forum. I also don't have much money so I want it to be pretty cheap. What is the best host to use?

I know nodebb themselves can host it, but it's a bit too expensive for me (plus my forum wont be big/popular), so I was going to try to do it myself.

I tried it on openshift but I keep managing to destroy my set up (i tried adding a plugin and now it's dead).. so i was thinking of trying some place else. is there a good place to try this?

also, can i experiment and run nodebb on my own windows computer?
thanks

thanks, i was actually able to install it using your new guide ! thanks a lot.

however, i actually wanted to install one of the plugins, and so i followed those steps too, and after doing git push origin master it did seemed to be installing it, but it stopped here.

remote: 29/2 20:15 [462396] - info: Now configuring redis database:
remote: Configuration Saved OK
remote: Populating database with default configs, if not already set...
remote: Previous theme detected, skipping enabling default theme
remote: Categories OK. Found 4 categories.
remote: Administrator found, skipping Admin setup
remote: 29/2 20:15 [462396] - info: Global Moderators group found, skipping creation!

i tried ./nodebb start and it said this

$ ./nodebb start
module.js:341
throw err;
^

Error: Cannot find module 'colors'
at Function.Module._resolveFilename (module.js:339:15)
at Function.Module._load (module.js:290:25)
at Module.require (module.js:367:17)
at require (internal/module.js:16:19)
at Object.<anonymous> (C:\nodebb\nodebb:3:14)
at Module._compile (module.js:413:34)
at Object.Module._extensions..js (module.js:422:10)
at Module.load (module.js:357:32)
at Function.Module._load (module.js:314:12)
at Function.Module.runMain (module.js:447:10)

so i guess i screwed something up? gah

Hi,

I finished all the steps in the guide for nodebb/openshift, at the final step it tells you to start the server, i do that and it appears there's no problem because it says this:

Starting NodeBB
"./nodebb stop" to stop the NodeBB server
"./nodebb log" to view server output
"./nodebb restart" to restart NodeBB

But when I go to the URL, it has the "503 Service Unavailable No server is available to handle this request" message

so then I show the log with ./nodebb log and get this:

[nodebb-genericname.rhcloud.com repo]\> ./nodebb startStarting NodeBB "./ - Pastebin.com

Pastebin.com is the number one paste tool since 2002. Pastebin is a website where you can store text online for a set period of time.

Pastebin (pastebin.com)

Note: I'm making this post short because the forum software is also saying my post is spam and refusing to post it if I include too much detail.

Hope someone can help, thank you for reading