Comments on: Setting up a NodeBB Forum “for Dummies”

By: Andrew Rodrigues

Andrew Rodrigues — Fri, 23 May 2014 20:58:17 +0000

Thanks! Pretty old guide, I should update it to the latest instructions soon. These days we actually do have pretty good documentation, so I really think users should look at the official guides found here: https://docs.nodebb.org/en/latest/installing/os.html

By: Michael Pelletier

Michael Pelletier — Sat, 17 May 2014 13:49:09 +0000

Great tutorial, really helped a lot.

The only thing I would point out is that these days NodeBB has a Minimum Requirement on the Redis Version (I think it ended up being 2.6?), which isn’t the one that installs by default (Same as the Node problem, really).

By: jdp23

jdp23 — Mon, 31 Mar 2014 21:56:03 +0000

Thanks for the instructions. When I run the setup, I get the following warnings:

warn: [plugins/nodebb-widget-essentials] staticDir is deprecated, use staticDirs instead
warn: [plugins/nodebb-plugin-mentions] This plugin may not be compatible with your version of NodeBB. This may cause unintended behaviour or crashing.
warn: [plugins/nodebb-plugin-markdown] This plugin may not be compatible with your version of NodeBB. This may cause unintended behaviour or crashing.

Is this something I need to worry about?

jon

By: rod

rod — Fri, 28 Mar 2014 03:06:01 +0000

hi when I enter

~/mynodebb$ ./nodebb

I get “invalid job ”

please can you let me know the correct job?

By: Aziz

Aziz — Thu, 20 Feb 2014 23:34:20 +0000

I started a topic here, probably a better place and easier for the community to find it if ever needed.
http://community.nodebb.org/topic/864/nodebb-in-production-linux-files-permissions-the-right-way

By: Aziz

Aziz — Thu, 20 Feb 2014 23:25:28 +0000

what’s the right way to setup permissions, Say you’re on linux (ubuntu12), running nginx 1.4 with redis
i’ve got:
drwxr-xr-x 5 www-data www-data 4096 Feb 20 17:50 mysite.com
drwxr-xr-x 2 www-data www-data 4096 Feb 20 17:49 forums.mysite.com

where ‘www-data’ is the nginx user, and a my current user is ‘admin’ which can sudo btw.

To setup NodeBB in forums.mysite.com, I will need to sudo to do anything, from git clone to running any command in there, should `admin` own that directory? or is it just better to place the NodeBB dir in admin’s home?

What is your conventional way of doing that? I still want to be able to setup `supervisor` to start on boot too.

By: Julian

Julian — Wed, 15 Jan 2014 12:48:13 +0000

Also keep in mind that some deps don’t compile on 64-bit. Not sure if this is the case with NodeBB.

By: Andrew Rodrigues

Andrew Rodrigues — Wed, 15 Jan 2014 08:24:23 +0000

Thanks for this. I don’t recognize your username on our community forum (http://community.nodebb.org), come and drop by sometime! :)

By: Andrew Rodrigues

Andrew Rodrigues — Wed, 15 Jan 2014 08:22:57 +0000

I think (could be wrong) that your question has already been answered on our community forum: http://community.nodebb.org

If not, let me know on the forum and/or send me a message :)

By: Andrew Rodrigues

Andrew Rodrigues — Wed, 15 Jan 2014 08:22:07 +0000

By now you probably have figured this out, sorry for the late reply (my WP Akismet plugin decided to be super strict and put all of your comments on moderation). I meant restart NodeBB, and I should probably update the tutorial to reflect this :p Thanks!