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Hi! We've since migrated our wiki over to a standalone documentation found at http://docs.nodebb.org/

** Don't forget to visit our community forums at http://community.nodebb.org **

Welcome to the NodeBB wiki! We'll try to keep this wiki up-to-date regarding various aspects of NodeBB

Report any issues to this project's issue tracker.

The project's rough roadmap/version history can be found at Version History / Roadmap

Installing NodeBB

OS	Cloud Host	Cloud Provider
[[Ubuntu	Installing NodeBB on Ubuntu]]	Digital Ocean (External)
[[SmartOS (Solaris)	Installing NodeBB on Joyent's SmartOS (Solaris)]]
CentOS (External)
[[Debian	Installing NodeBB on Debian]]
[[Windows 8	Installing NodeBB on Windows 8]]

Configuring NodeBB

Database	Web Server/Proxy	Autostart	Other
Redis (default)	[[Nginx Proxy	Configuring nginx as a proxy to NodeBB]]	[[Upstart
[[MongoDB	Installing NodeBB With MongoDB]]	[[Apache Proxy	Configuring Apache as a proxy to NodeBB]]
[[LevelDB	Installing NodeBB With LevelDB]]	Varnish Cache
Running a Secondary Database			Enabling Social Network Logins
			Enabling Imgur Image Uploads

Running into any problems?

• Troubleshooting & FAQ
• Report a Bug
• Ask on the NodeBB Community Forum
• Check Device Compatibility

Customizing NodeBB

Plugins and Widgets

• Widgets System
• Writing Plugins for NodeBB
• Developing with Grunt and Coffee Script

Theming NodeBB

• Creating a new NodeBB Theme
• Templates System
• NodeBB Hands-On Theming Guide, Part 1

Contributing to NodeBB Core

• Contributor Style Guide
• How to build a new Admin Page

Helping out the NodeBB Project

NodeBB is an open source project, and will forever remain free. Here's a number of ways you can help us, even if you aren't a programmer.

• Like and share our content on Facebook
• Follow us on Twitter and perhaps tweet #NodeBB is most awesome forum software @NodeBB
• Update this wiki! ;) We need everything from development/design tutorials to user friendly how-to guides.
• Tell everybody about NodeBB, including your grandma and her cats.
• Submit a pull request, or two, or three..
• Build a new theme
• Write a plugin
• Keep the link back to us on the footer of your own NodeBB :)
• Blog about us! Give the gift of SEO juice this Christmas
• Help Translate NodeBB - It's a really simple translation tool and you don't need to know how to code.
• Join our community and give us a hard time about bugs and missing features