<![CDATA[Cannot change user slug]]>I have to rename a user but after doing that, their posts under the old name still shows up and the username still shows the old user.
Is there a way to fix this?

]]>https://bbs.spacc.eu.org/new/topic/a94ff166-faef-47ad-a373-a2e4c9ff7572/cannot-change-user-slugRSS for NodeMon, 09 Nov 2026 06:54:24 GMTMon, 28 Jul 2025 20:48:14 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to Cannot change user slug on Sat, 09 Aug 2025 00:48:42 GMT]]>NodeHam I'm sorry, have been busy with other tasks and have not found the time to take a look yet.

]]>https://bbs.spacc.eu.org/new/post/https://community.nodebb.org/post/105463https://bbs.spacc.eu.org/new/post/https://community.nodebb.org/post/105463Sat, 09 Aug 2025 00:48:42 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Cannot change user slug on Fri, 08 Aug 2025 17:07:35 GMT]]>Ok so, there's already an update but I need to solve this before I can update or have to edit the file again.

]]>https://bbs.spacc.eu.org/new/post/https://community.nodebb.org/post/105457https://bbs.spacc.eu.org/new/post/https://community.nodebb.org/post/105457Fri, 08 Aug 2025 17:07:35 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Cannot change user slug on Mon, 04 Aug 2025 20:26:11 GMT]]>Sure, in this case, it's https://support.isptracker.com/

]]>https://bbs.spacc.eu.org/new/post/https://community.nodebb.org/post/105385https://bbs.spacc.eu.org/new/post/https://community.nodebb.org/post/105385Mon, 04 Aug 2025 20:26:11 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Cannot change user slug on Mon, 04 Aug 2025 20:25:09 GMT]]>NodeHam any chance we can see this site?

]]>https://bbs.spacc.eu.org/new/post/https://community.nodebb.org/post/105384https://bbs.spacc.eu.org/new/post/https://community.nodebb.org/post/105384Mon, 04 Aug 2025 20:25:09 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Cannot change user slug on Mon, 04 Aug 2025 20:22:06 GMT]]>Sorry, are we talking about the image or the user now?
The image url is correct but emails do not have that, they have the old url without the edited file.
It's like something got 'stuck' for lack of better word.

]]>https://bbs.spacc.eu.org/new/post/https://community.nodebb.org/post/105383https://bbs.spacc.eu.org/new/post/https://community.nodebb.org/post/105383Mon, 04 Aug 2025 20:22:06 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Cannot change user slug on Mon, 04 Aug 2025 00:27:46 GMT]]>NodeHam thanks, and what about at the new url?

]]>https://bbs.spacc.eu.org/new/post/https://community.nodebb.org/post/105363https://bbs.spacc.eu.org/new/post/https://community.nodebb.org/post/105363Mon, 04 Aug 2025 00:27:46 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Cannot change user slug on Sun, 03 Aug 2025 22:24:45 GMT]]>Got it, no federation at all, single site on its own.

I'm not terribly concerned about the slug at this point. The email logo was fixed by editing the file and that's what I'm mainly nervous about.

ajaxify.data
{uid: 49, username: 'HelpSupport', userslug: 'helpsupport', email: 'support@mynodebb.com', email:confirmed: true, …}

]]>https://bbs.spacc.eu.org/new/post/https://community.nodebb.org/post/105362https://bbs.spacc.eu.org/new/post/https://community.nodebb.org/post/105362Sun, 03 Aug 2025 22:24:45 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Cannot change user slug on Sun, 03 Aug 2025 17:41:21 GMT]]>NodeHam yes, a remote account would be an account on another NodeBB forum, for example, reached via federation.

So you're able to access both user pages? What happens when you type ajaxify.data into the browser dev console on both pages?

]]>https://bbs.spacc.eu.org/new/post/https://community.nodebb.org/post/105358https://bbs.spacc.eu.org/new/post/https://community.nodebb.org/post/105358Sun, 03 Aug 2025 17:41:21 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Cannot change user slug on Sun, 03 Aug 2025 17:25:18 GMT]]>To be safe, what you do mean by remote user account? It's a user on nodebb itself so I suppose that means local.

]]>https://bbs.spacc.eu.org/new/post/https://community.nodebb.org/post/105357https://bbs.spacc.eu.org/new/post/https://community.nodebb.org/post/105357Sun, 03 Aug 2025 17:25:18 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Cannot change user slug on Sun, 03 Aug 2025 15:31:43 GMT]]>NodeHam this is not related to a remote user account, right? But a local account?

]]>https://bbs.spacc.eu.org/new/post/https://community.nodebb.org/post/105352https://bbs.spacc.eu.org/new/post/https://community.nodebb.org/post/105352Sun, 03 Aug 2025 15:31:43 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Cannot change user slug on Sun, 03 Aug 2025 15:27:51 GMT]]>Does anyone have any other thoughts? It's been using an edited file to solve this and I prefer not to do that and to solve this before there is another nodebb update.

]]>https://bbs.spacc.eu.org/new/post/https://community.nodebb.org/post/105349https://bbs.spacc.eu.org/new/post/https://community.nodebb.org/post/105349Sun, 03 Aug 2025 15:27:51 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Cannot change user slug on Fri, 01 Aug 2025 14:38:05 GMT]]>Could be, if I had a cache installed but I don't. I cleared nodebb cache as well but the problem persists. Right now, the only way this works is with the edited file which I'd like to restore.

]]>https://bbs.spacc.eu.org/new/post/https://community.nodebb.org/post/105275https://bbs.spacc.eu.org/new/post/https://community.nodebb.org/post/105275Fri, 01 Aug 2025 14:38:05 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Cannot change user slug on Thu, 31 Jul 2025 17:25:22 GMT]]>NodeHam sounds like a varnish cache issue...

]]>https://bbs.spacc.eu.org/new/post/https://community.nodebb.org/post/105269https://bbs.spacc.eu.org/new/post/https://community.nodebb.org/post/105269Thu, 31 Jul 2025 17:25:22 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Cannot change user slug on Thu, 31 Jul 2025 17:14:17 GMT]]>Yes, I can log in and out, post as the renamed user.

]]>https://bbs.spacc.eu.org/new/post/https://community.nodebb.org/post/105268https://bbs.spacc.eu.org/new/post/https://community.nodebb.org/post/105268Thu, 31 Jul 2025 17:14:17 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Cannot change user slug on Thu, 31 Jul 2025 16:52:00 GMT]]>NodeHam regarding the user name change, are you sure it worked? Can you access the user via their new username?

]]>https://bbs.spacc.eu.org/new/post/https://community.nodebb.org/post/105267https://bbs.spacc.eu.org/new/post/https://community.nodebb.org/post/105267Thu, 31 Jul 2025 16:52:00 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Cannot change user slug on Thu, 31 Jul 2025 16:46:49 GMT]]>Ok but either way, I can't customize this page that will get overwritten so how can I get this to work? More importantly, why is it not working since it worked before the domain name change.

]]>https://bbs.spacc.eu.org/new/post/https://community.nodebb.org/post/105266https://bbs.spacc.eu.org/new/post/https://community.nodebb.org/post/105266Thu, 31 Jul 2025 16:46:49 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Cannot change user slug on Wed, 30 Jul 2025 21:10:31 GMT]]>The key name is just config not meta/config

]]>https://bbs.spacc.eu.org/new/post/https://community.nodebb.org/post/105261https://bbs.spacc.eu.org/new/post/https://community.nodebb.org/post/105261Wed, 30 Jul 2025 21:10:31 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Cannot change user slug on Wed, 30 Jul 2025 18:19:30 GMT]]>Ok, I can try that.

Making this change worked;
Emailer._defaultPayload = {
url: nconf.get('url'),
site_title: meta.config.title || 'NodeBB',
logo: {
src: "https://my.nodebb.com/assets/uploads/system/site-logo.png",
height: 50,
width: 247,
},
};

I also tried this with no luck.

nodebb> db.objects.find({ _key: "meta/config" }).pretty()
...

nodebb> db.objects.find({ _key: "meta/config" }, { logo: 1, _id: 0 }).pretty()
...

nodebb>

This confirmed that the meta/config document currently does not exist in the database.

db.objects.insertOne({
_key: "meta/config",
logo: "https://my.nodebb.com/assets/uploads/system/site-logo.png"
})

Rebuilt and restarted NodeBB

./nodebb build
./nodebb restart

No change.

]]>https://bbs.spacc.eu.org/new/post/https://community.nodebb.org/post/105258https://bbs.spacc.eu.org/new/post/https://community.nodebb.org/post/105258Wed, 30 Jul 2025 18:19:30 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Cannot change user slug on Wed, 30 Jul 2025 17:29:54 GMT]]>You are just editing it to debug the issue, once you see the correct url there you can revert the change back.

]]>https://bbs.spacc.eu.org/new/post/https://community.nodebb.org/post/105257https://bbs.spacc.eu.org/new/post/https://community.nodebb.org/post/105257Wed, 30 Jul 2025 17:29:54 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Cannot change user slug on Wed, 30 Jul 2025 16:06:31 GMT]]>Yes but I don't want to edit files directly as there are so many nodebb updates that will overwrite changes.
In addition, I never had to edit this file to get the logo working in emails so I'm very hesitant about touching that.

]]>https://bbs.spacc.eu.org/new/post/https://community.nodebb.org/post/105256https://bbs.spacc.eu.org/new/post/https://community.nodebb.org/post/105256Wed, 30 Jul 2025 16:06:31 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Cannot change user slug on Wed, 30 Jul 2025 14:42:39 GMT]]>This is where the email template is rendered, you can add a console.log(params) there to see the values used for the logo.

]]>https://bbs.spacc.eu.org/new/post/https://community.nodebb.org/post/105254https://bbs.spacc.eu.org/new/post/https://community.nodebb.org/post/105254Wed, 30 Jul 2025 14:42:39 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Cannot change user slug on Wed, 30 Jul 2025 14:08:15 GMT]]>Yes, I changed the name/url in the config file along with on the back end of course.
I also deleted the old logo and uploaded the new one but the logo in emails remains broken with the name of the previous site still in the url.

I searched the DB and tries to hard code the new url but that didn't work for emails at least.
I searched all of the files to be safe and find nothing for the old url so I don't know where this is coming from.

Not sure what else to look at which is why I posted.

]]>https://bbs.spacc.eu.org/new/post/https://community.nodebb.org/post/105253https://bbs.spacc.eu.org/new/post/https://community.nodebb.org/post/105253Wed, 30 Jul 2025 14:08:15 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Cannot change user slug on Wed, 30 Jul 2025 13:57:57 GMT]]>If you changed the value of url in config.json then you have restart nodebb, so that next time the emailer sends email it uses the new url.

]]>https://bbs.spacc.eu.org/new/post/https://community.nodebb.org/post/105252https://bbs.spacc.eu.org/new/post/https://community.nodebb.org/post/105252Wed, 30 Jul 2025 13:57:57 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Cannot change user slug on Wed, 30 Jul 2025 13:43:32 GMT]]>Does no one peruse these forums anymore? :)

]]>https://bbs.spacc.eu.org/new/post/https://community.nodebb.org/post/105251https://bbs.spacc.eu.org/new/post/https://community.nodebb.org/post/105251Wed, 30 Jul 2025 13:43:32 GMT