I'm getting this in the console.log

XMLHttpRequest cannot load https://packages.nodebb.org/api/v1/suggest?package=nodebb-plugin-emailer-ssl-smtp&version=0.7.0. No 'Access-Control-Allow-Origin' header is present on the requested resource. Origin 'http://........com' is therefore not allowed access.

Actually yeah I've managed to install it in a subdirectory and run it via normal command line but I've got problems trying to get it to restart on reboot.

nginx/site-available/nodebb

	server {
		listen 80 default_server;
		listen [::]:80 default_server;
		root /var/www/;
		index index.html index.htm index.nginx-debian.html;        
		server_name _;
		location / {
			# First attempt to serve request as file, then
			# as directory, then fall back to displaying a 404.
			try_files $uri $uri/ =404;
		}
		location /forum {
			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/forum;
			proxy_redirect off;

			# Socket.IO Support
			proxy_http_version 1.1;
			proxy_set_header Upgrade $http_upgrade;
			proxy_set_header Connection "upgrade";
	    }

	}

config.json

	{
	    "url": "http://localhost:4567/forum",
	    "secret": "insert_your_secret_here",
	    "database": "redis",
	    "redis": {
	        "host": "127.0.0.1",
	        "port": "6379",
	        "password": "insert_your_password_here",
	        "database": "0"
	    }
	}

In order to restart nodebb upon server restart I've used the init script based on
https://www.exratione.com/2013/02/nodejs-and-forever-as-a-service-simple-upstart-and-init-scripts-for-ubuntu/

Modifications/Important config below

SOURCE_DIR="/var/www/nodebb"
NODE_USER="nodejs_user";
APPLICATION_PATH="app.js"

#  ... other config 
start() {
    echo "Starting $NAME"
    #  sample forever command didn't seem to work
    #    forever 
    #      --pidFile $PIDFILE 
    #      -a 
    #      -l $LOGFILE 
    #      --minUptime $MIN_UPTIME 
    #      --spinSleepTime $SPIN_SLEEP_TIME 
    #      start $APPLICATION_PATH 2>&1 > /dev/null &

    sudo -u $NODE_USER relative_path=/forum upload_url=/forum/uploads/ forever --sourceDir $SOURCE_DIR --pidFile $PIDFILE -a -l $LOGFILE --minUptime $MIN_UPTIME --spinSleepTime $SPIN_SLEEP_TIME start $APPLICATION_PATH 2>&1 > /dev/null &

Not sure if that's the best way of doing it, but it seemed to work for me.

Edit: Seems that file/image upload is broken: it uploads to /uploads/ instead of /forum/uploads/. Still looking into that

Edit 2: Uploads fixed with relative_path=/forum upload_url=/forum/uploads/ in the script. Other problems found:

• Can't stop forever via script (maybe something to do with log and pidfiles not being created)
• Can't install plugins
• Doesn't read from config.json but via environment variables passed in the init/forever script?