The following online articles are referenced. (Please note that the main guide from NodeBB has an error during the MongoDB setup, therefore a seperate guide is followed) NodeBB Installation Documentation MongoDB Installation Guide Credentials We'll be using the following credentials (please generate your own passwords) $user $pass Installing Node.js Node.js is available from the NodeSource Ubuntu binary distributions repository. Download the setup script. sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install -y ca-certificates curl gnupg curl -fsSL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_lts.x -o nodesource_setup.sh Installing MongoDB text