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Hello Everyone,

I have my new server up and running and have even moved over my wife’s wordpress website. I have to say I can tell a big difference on speed. The digital ocean server was fast, but with more resources for a couple dollars more I can tell a huge difference.

So now for my question. I have my reverse dns setup as mydomainname.com which is the name of my server as host and have created a virtualmin server to it so it can have ssl. So for the reverse dns I have mydomainname.com entered in the IPv4 entry.

Now for my wife to receive email from a contact form I need to have an MX entry in her DNS management with a MX record of hollyjessen.com pointing to mydomainname.com right?

Or do I point it to something different?

Should I also have the DKIM entries entered in as a TXT entry in the DNS management as well?

Thank you for your help!

My nodebb instance had 50 new joiners over a month, all posting spam.
I had to turn on Admin approval to try and limit this.
But Im still getting Spammers. Location of IP gives a clue as most of these accounts come from a certain area, but its impossible to know for sure.
How to enable code that on registration they have to type why they want to join forum, so admin has more idea on what their motivations are?

I have a Zoho mail account but it will not work on NodeBB for sending out any kind of emails.
Under AdminPanel/email
I selected Zoho in the list
Typed in username@mysite.co.uk
Typed in the Zoho email password
and saved.

any email tests get an error
Invalid login: 535 Authentication Failed

This has been a problem for years, the zoho account sends emails fine, but it doesnt seem that my nodebb instance can use it?

Hope its ok to do a test here of how Sudonix does youtube embeds, as I think this side uses the ns plugin.
From my recall, ns has better functionality than the currently recommeded plugin.
I dont know why the ns plugin isnt whitelisted?
@phenomlab, out of interest, do you know who coded the ns plugin?

For this test, I picked a slightly relevant video!
Test1: a youtu.be link

@phenomlab the convo we started on nodebb forum, I thought to continue it here.
Still having the issue of links not loading often in widgets
Have you been able to take a look?

I wanted a way to pull videos from YouTube, but have it so that nodebb-plugin-rss did all the heavy lifting, and I only had to provide the RSS. Simple? In theory, yes. In practice? No.

YouTube for a number of years has hidden an RSS link in each channel it hosts, which previously could be used for that exact purpose - an RSS reader - and in our case, the RSS plugin we want to use. However, over time, and because of the ever-increasing monetisation prospects of the platform, the ability to read and parse these feeds has become problematic to say the least.

In most cases, they work fine in a browser

But when you try to pull them from the RSS plugin

Note the 404 status code. This is happening because the RSS plugin (to my knowledge) does not send an agent string to identify the browser type, and as a result, YouTube sees it as a bot and will reject the request.

The workaround here is to use a utility called RSSHub

https://docs.rsshub.app/routes/social-media#youtube

Essentially, we can leverage the free API of this site to provide a URL that the RSS plugin can work with.

How this works

1. We visit the YouTube channel in question
2. Right click anywhere there is a blank area on the page, and from the resulting window, choose “View Source”
   
3. This then opens a new tab where we can see the underlying code.
4. In this new tab, press F3 on your keyboard which should open the “find” utility
5. In the search window, type RSS and press enter
6. You should be able to find something the like the below
   
7. Copy the RSS URL - in this case, it’s the below, but only the actual URL highlighted
   
8. Now we just need to convert the link above, and append the channel ID after the = sign
9. The link you land up with becomes https://rsshub.app/youtube/channel/UCnr_M7_nAku9k3T88A4Ke2Q
10. Copy that link and paste it into the RSS plugin testing area
    
11. This new link should now return data
    

You can now use that same link in the RSS plugin to pull the videos you want

Considerations

This is a free API, so will be subject to fair usage policies. For this reason, I strongly recommend you check once per day to keep the session count low, and to prevent RSSHub from blocking your IP.

Bearing in mind the busiest of YouTube channels typically upload content at minimum daily, so this should be fine.

Enjoy.

Running nodeBB on v6 of MongoDB and tried to upgrade to v7
Is there any benefit to upgrading?

Anyway I did
sudo apt update
and saw these lines (which still references v6?)
…https://repo.mongodb.org/apt/ubuntu jammy/mongodb-org/6.0 InRelease
Hit:10 https://repo.mongodb.org/apt/ubuntu jammy/mongodb-org/6.0 Release

Then
sudo apt upgrade mongodb
didnt work

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
Package mongodb is not available, but is referred to by another package.
This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
is only available from another source

E: Package 'mongodb' has no installation candidate

Can anyone explain what failed there?

Hello, I’m interested in testing this WordPress theme, and I’m eager to get started. Could you please provide guidance on how to set up and test this theme? I noticed it involves commands like ‘yarn,’ so I would appreciate your assistance in getting it up and running.

https://github.com/WordPress/wporg-developer

What causes this error when I want to backup Mongo DB?

Hi Mark
I have a problem as below photo.
I updated Mongodb after faced.

Recently, ansible was used to automatically deploy the mongodb docker service, including replica sets. In version 7.0, TLS support is required to support replica sets. TLS signing is a problem for me.

Mark hi
I can not give permission for one user to set special category for it.
I can not to cancel others write on that category expect one user.
How can i set it?

Re: Which product is the best for VPN?

Following on from the above thread, I have just found this for anyone that wants a very cheap VPN.

https://www.hotukdeals.com/deals/keepsolid-vpn-unlimited-lifetime-subscription-5-devices-ps1285-with-code-at-stacksocial-3844217

when doing nodebb upgrade, this is one of the steps

$ git reset --hard v3.4.2

Is there a way to just say latest version, rather than having to type in the exact version number?

when I did this command (as per instructions to see what version its on)

git rev-parse --abbrev-ref HEAD

it gave…

v2.x

whys it saying 2?

Also got this screen at start

I’ve been looking into Nord VPN, is this the best around?

Doing some research it does appear so, but have you heard of any better?

Just looking to get the best one as Nord sign you up for two years with a good deal!

We were discussing skin colors yesterday, and on that topic …
the text in code boxes is hard to read here.
Does it appear same to you?

I’ve been asked to do this:

On the forum, mobile friendly and on PC you’ll get a fire coloured gradient for the background with everything within a frame on top of that background so the frame can be scrolled but the background doesn’t change.
Centred experience such as tumblr or twitter in the sense that it’s the info that gets scrolled but not the whole page

The forum is nodebb hosted, so although I can add custom CSS or Javascript, where can I upload the image to use?
Also what CSS to write please?

I wish to stop browser cash to force nodebb to rerun custom css everytime page is refreshed
(as it picks different random image as background)
Theres place for custom css / js
But where to put this html

Cache-Control: no-cache

I tried it in a few places but it didnt work

On further googling do I need all these lines?

<meta http-equiv="Cache-Control" content="no-cache, no-store, must-revalidate">
<meta http-equiv="Pragma" content="no-cache">
<meta http-equiv="Expires" content="0">

I tried that in Custom Header, didnt work either

Strange thing today, thought my pals nodebb.com site was down, as browser prevented access.
It gave the your connection is not private security warning (like when theres no SSL)
But Ive been told issue was that i was using
www.sitename.nodebb.com
And should just use sitename.nodebb.com
!
Have I missed something, since when did www. stop websites accessing properly?

I’m posting this as a long-shot that someone might have a thought of why this Wordpress / Woocommerce site stopped working recently, although code not altered.
Its not my page, but the owner had a working site that used a Leonardo.ai API to have a panel to generate images, which were used in these ‘diamondpainting’ kits, where people make the pictures out of small plastic beads.
Anyway last week the website just stopped working fully, now has a word [Leonardo-AI] where the ai panel was! It should have run some custom PhP there.

I inspected the html in the site www.diamondpainting.ai
and there is a
<P>[Leonardo-AI]</P>
which seems strange!
He wondered if he has been hacked, so tried installing last weeks back-up and that has the same error now.
Its very odd.
Not sure if there is enough info here for any guesses on what might have happened