New installation missing views

zerefel

Hey there,

I just started playing around with NodeBB and so far I am impressed with how easy it is to set up.

However, even though I managed to follow the simple installation process and start NodeBB (using ./nodebb start), all I got was a blank home page.

I configured my installation to work with MongoDB. I thought that may be causing some weird issues so I tried with Redis too. The result was the same. I even tried installing it on Ubuntu 14.04, Windows 8.1 and even on a Vagrant box (ubuntu/trust64).

I am kinda confused. The installation seems to have went correctly, after all I can start the app.

Am I missing a theme or something, or am I just stupid and have missed something?

P.S. I followed the official documentation in order to install.

leksar

Do you have any errors in your browser ? Ctrl+Shift+J for Chrome.

Bri

Cmd+alt+i for Chrome on mac

zerefel

@leksar No errors in chrome's console. On firefox, it seems to occur randomly, but I sometimes get the following error
The connection to ws://127.0.0.1:4567/socket.io/?EIO=3&transport=websocket&sid=Dq0LcrxqbiI3dTIXAAAx was interrupted while the page was loading.

I checked the partials to make sure everything is there. It seems like the view cannot be rendered properly.
I even tried reinstalling the rendering engine module with no success.

I forgot to mention that the /register page gets rendered. It looks like this.

Bri

Is there anything in your console running Nodebb or the redis server? Could you describe the exact steps you took to set up?

zerefel

@BDHarrington7 Thanks for your help, I managed to get it up and running yesterday. The problem turned out to be npm. For some reason it never completely downloaded all modules.

I managed to figure that out by running the nodebb app with nodemon. When I ran it I saw an error get thrown, which wasn't in the nodebb log.

Simply put, always check your npm modules! Dependencies go deep and sometimes may get messy.

Cheers,

Mitko

Bri

Nice! Out of curiosity, what was the error thrown?

zerefel

@BDHarrington7 There, I deleted the connect-mongo module to replicate the problem that I had.

Darwin

I have that problem now

Bri

@Darwin sometimes npm will run out of memory when building the dependency tree. How much RAM are you running on?

Darwin

@Bri on server 512mb. Digitalocean... but it also happy on local machine.. now I´am starting from scratch

Bri

Yeah, I've had trouble installing NodeBB on a 512Mb machine. You can either increase to 1GB, or turning on swap might help.

julian

seconding swap. A 512mb droplet will run out of memory when installing dependencies for NodeBB..