NodeBB

NodeBB is a robust nodejs driven forum built on a redis database. It is powered by web sockets, and is compatible down to IE8.

Requirements

NodeBB requires a version of Node.js at least 0.8 or greater, and a Redis version 2.6 or greater.

Installation

First, we install our base software stack. build-essential is required as it exposes the build environment for bcrypt compilation, we won't be compiling anything manually.

# apt-get install git nodejs redis-server npm build-essential
$ cd /path/to/nodebb/install/location
$ git clone git://github.com/designcreateplay/NodeBB.git nodebb

Next, obtain all of the dependencies required by NodeBB:

$ cd nodebb
$ npm install

Now we ensure that the configuration files are properly set up. NodeBB runs on port 4567 by default. The client side config can be set up thusly:

$ cp public/config.default.json public/config.json

... and the server side config can be set up similarly:

$ cp config.default.js config.js

Ensure that /public/config.json points to the publically accessible IP/hostname of your forum, and that the values of the server side config are also set correctly (see below).

Lastly, we run the forum.

$ node app

(Optional) Some server configurations may install the node binary as nodejs instead of node. You can re-map it (so as to not break compatibility with node-supervisor) by running the following command:

# update-alternatives --install /usr/bin/node node /usr/bin/nodejs 10