NodeBB Blog Comments Plugin Ghost.js Not Found

[brianb]

I've been trying to get the nodebb blog comments plugin working.

I just installed cloudron on a new linode a few days ago. I installed nodebb and ghost via cloudron with no issues. they both work great!

I tried to find and install the blog comments plugin on nodebb admin but it is not there. So I did so manually via opening a terminal from nodebb cloudron admin.

I followed the example in the cloudron docs for installing a plugin manually and it seemed to have worked. In the logs for nodebb install it says

warn: [deprecation] The `/plugins` shorthand prefix is deprecated, prefix with `/assets/plugins` instead (path: /nodebb-plugin-blog-comments/lib/ghost.js)

This gave me a clue to the first issue. The ghost.js file could not be loaded in Ghost post page.

So I tried to test the ghost.js url by combining and pasting the complete url for the ghost.js that it was returning 404 / not found.

I think it will all work once I get the ghost.js script to load and render to the ghost post page.

I used find to locate the file find / -name "ghost.js"

it returned /run/nodebb/node_modules/nodebb-plugin-blog-comments/public/lib/ghost.js

so it all "looks right" to me so I must be missing something obvious. I would appreciate any help so I can get NodeBB handling the comments for my Ghost blog.

[girish]

@briankb-0 Did you restart the forum after installing the plugin. I haven't tried to use the plugin itself but I am not seeing this warning after installing the plugin:

 => Starting nodebb

 NodeBB v2.0.0 Copyright (C) 2013-2022 NodeBB Inc.
 This program comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
 This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions.
 For the full license, please visit: http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html

 Clustering enabled: Spinning up 1 process(es).

 2022-05-09T21:28:35.761Z [4567/74] - info: Initializing NodeBB v2.0.0 https://forum.cloudron.space
 2022-05-09T21:28:37.523Z [4567/74] - info: [socket.io] Restricting access to origin: https://forum.cloudron.space:*

 2022-05-09T21:28:37.750Z [4567/74] - warn: [plugins/load] The following plugins may not be compatible with your version of NodeBB. This may cause unintended behaviour or crashing. In the event of an unresponsive NodeBB caused by this plugin, run `./nodebb reset -p PLUGINNAME` to disable it.
 * nodebb-plugin-mentions
 * nodebb-rewards-essentials
 * nodebb-plugin-blog-comments

 2022-05-09T21:28:37.841Z [4567/74] - info: [api] Adding 0 route(s) to `api/v3/plugins`
 2022-05-09T21:28:37.878Z [4567/74] - info: [router] Routes added
 2022-05-09T21:28:37.891Z [4567/74] - info: NodeBB Ready
 2022-05-09T21:28:37.893Z [4567/74] - info: Enabling 'trust proxy'
 2022-05-09T21:28:37.895Z [4567/74] - info: NodeBB is now listening on: 0.0.0.0:4567
 2022-05-09T21:28:37.895Z [4567/74] - info: Canonical URL: https://forum.cloudron.space

It does say that it's incompatible though. For that, you have to report the bug upstream https://github.com/psychobunny/nodebb-plugin-blog-comments

[girish]

And doing a curl does return the ghost.js file:

$ curl -L https://forum.cloudron.space/plugins/nodebb-plugin-blog-comments/lib/ghost.js
(function() {
	"use strict";

	var articlePath = window.location.protocol + '//' + window.location.host + window.location.pathname;

	var pluginURL = nbb.url + '/plugins/nodebb-plugin-blog-comments',
		savedText, nodebbDiv, contentDiv, commentsDiv, commentsCounter, commentsAuthor, commentsCategory;

	var stylesheet = document.createElement("link");
	stylesheet.setAttribute("rel", "stylesheet");
	stylesheet.setAttribute("type", "text/css");
	stylesheet.setAttribute("href", pluginURL + '/css/comments.css');

...

The version of the plugin installed is 0.8.6