NodeBB DB Migration
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Hi all,
So I'm on Nodebb v3.10.3 and previously I have successfully restored the database to local instances for testing. However, I've been trying to migrate the forum to a different server (My MongoDB is setup and a db dump has been restored).
However, whenever I try to run ./nodebb build, it stops after installing dependencies.
There are no other logs.
When I was trying again by performing ./nodebb setup (instead of build), I did see the following after providing my newly restored DBs URI:
2026-03-20T09:03:03.067Z [9971] - error: admin:username 2026-03-20T09:03:03.067Z [9971] - error: admin:password 2026-03-20T09:03:03.067Z [9971] - error: admin:password:confirm 2026-03-20T09:03:03.068Z [9971] - error: admin:emailI was wondering how to provide these info/overwrite in the DB/config file?
Thank you
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Hi all,
So I'm on Nodebb v3.10.3 and previously I have successfully restored the database to local instances for testing. However, I've been trying to migrate the forum to a different server (My MongoDB is setup and a db dump has been restored).
However, whenever I try to run ./nodebb build, it stops after installing dependencies.
There are no other logs.
When I was trying again by performing ./nodebb setup (instead of build), I did see the following after providing my newly restored DBs URI:
2026-03-20T09:03:03.067Z [9971] - error: admin:username 2026-03-20T09:03:03.067Z [9971] - error: admin:password 2026-03-20T09:03:03.067Z [9971] - error: admin:password:confirm 2026-03-20T09:03:03.068Z [9971] - error: admin:emailI was wondering how to provide these info/overwrite in the DB/config file?
Thank you
@[email protected] did you copy over config.json from the old box?
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@[email protected] did you copy over config.json from the old box?
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@[email protected] hi Julian yeah I did yeah. Same secret and everything
@[email protected] can you get me the full log of the
./nodebb buildcommand?It's odd that it stops after installing dependencies, it suggests that dependency installation failed somehow.
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Hi @[email protected]
The logs basically says "started" and nothing happens after. Even the web builder failed I'm afraid.I tried connecting the instance to a fresh DB but seems the webbuilder is still running even after performing a ./nodebb stop. and ./nodebb log does show that it's running. It only stopped once the VM was restarted.
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Yeah so the build errors now show the following:
ERROR in ./build/public/src/modules/topicThumbs.js 104:6-106:8 Module not found: Error: Can't resolve 'composer' in '/home/nodebb/nodebb-root/build/public/src/modules'Hanging suggests maybe lack of RAM? Wild guess.
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Yeah so the build errors now show the following:
ERROR in ./build/public/src/modules/topicThumbs.js 104:6-106:8 Module not found: Error: Can't resolve 'composer' in '/home/nodebb/nodebb-root/build/public/src/modules'
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