Error within custom pages after cluster enable

[phenomlab]

Hi. After enabling clustering on my forum, I now seem to have some custom pages that fail to render with the below error

Error: Failed to lookup view "policies" in views directory "/home/sudonix/nodebb/build/public/templates"
    at Function.render (/home/sudonix/nodebb/node_modules/express/lib/application.js:597:17)
    at ServerResponse.render (/home/sudonix/nodebb/node_modules/express/lib/response.js:1039:7)
    at /home/sudonix/nodebb/src/middleware/render.js:107:11
    at new Promise (<anonymous>)
    at renderContent (/home/sudonix/nodebb/src/middleware/render.js:106:10)
    at renderMethod (/home/sudonix/nodebb/src/middleware/render.js:75:15)
    at async ServerResponse.renderOverride [as render] (/home/sudonix/nodebb/src/middleware/render.js:96:5)

Any ideas ?

[baris]

Hmm, trying restarting your nodebb, that plugin saves the tpl files into the template folder at startup of your nodebb. https://github.com/NodeBB-Community/nodebb-plugin-custom-pages/blob/ad96ea7da00d1247d2ba45363efa3bba0850bfdc/library.js#L171.

[julian]

Hi @phenomlab — how did you enable clustering? Just by specifying additional ports in config.json?

[phenomlab]

@julian yes, and by also installing redis as per the NodeBB guide.

[baris]

Hmm, trying restarting your nodebb, that plugin saves the tpl files into the template folder at startup of your nodebb. https://github.com/NodeBB-Community/nodebb-plugin-custom-pages/blob/ad96ea7da00d1247d2ba45363efa3bba0850bfdc/library.js#L171.

[phenomlab]

@baris yeah, that seems to resolve it. Thanks. I did try a rebuild and restart earlier, but that didn't seem to do much. Incidentally, some of the pages did load after a refresh, but not all of them.

Restarting seems to have fixed that, but my concern is that this may happen randomly and I won't necessarily see it.

[baris]

The only way I can see this happening is if you run ./nodebb build but not follow it with a ./nodebb restart in that case custom page templates will not be saved.

[phenomlab]

@baris thanks. That is a possibility. Will keep an eye on it.