[new installation] im getting an error when trying to start nodebb.service

[Apple Pro]

So im following the nodebb installation for ubuntu step by step and when i reached to the step where you start the nodebb service, i first ran sudo service nodebb start and received no errors whatsoever. But when i ran sudo service nodebb status

This is what i got:

Any idea on what's going on?

[a632079]

It's works now ? Have you tried visit your url?

[Apple Pro]

@a632079 said in [new installation] im getting an error when trying to start nodebb.service:

It's works now ? Have you tried visit your url?

I cant at the moment since I didn't add the nginx config file for nodebb (which could be a bit challenging since im not that experienced with such things)

I will give it a try though

[a632079]

@apple-pro cd to your nodebb directory and try ./nodebb log
If you did't see any errors be throwed, you just have already started it .

[Apple Pro]

@a632079 said in [new installation] im getting an error when trying to start nodebb.service:

It's works now ? Have you tried visit your url?

Ok when i visit the url, i get the 502 bad gateway error which shows that nodebb is indeed not running.

I think there's something wrong in my nodebb.service file, can you please send me what should be in there

like this

[Apple Pro]

@a632079 said in [new installation] im getting an error when trying to start nodebb.service:

@apple-pro cd to your nodebb directory and try ./nodebb log
If you did't see any errors be throwed, you just have already started it .

tail: cannot open './logs/output.log' for reading: No such file or directory

[Apple Pro]

@julian maybe you would know what's wrong?

[Apple Pro]

Ok so i bypassed systemd and just ran ./nodebb start and the forum worked..... But as soon as I restarted nodebb from the admin dashboard, i kept getting this when visiting the forum:

Error: Failed to lookup view "500" in views directory "/var/www/vexforum.gq/build/public/templates"
at EventEmitter.render (/var/www/vexforum.gq/node_modules/express/lib/application.js:580:17)
at ServerResponse.render (/var/www/vexforum.gq/node_modules/express/lib/response.js:971:7)
at content (/var/www/vexforum.gq/src/middleware/render.js:82:15)
at /var/www/vexforum.gq/node_modules/async/dist/async.js:3830:24
at replenish (/var/www/vexforum.gq/node_modules/async/dist/async.js:946:17)
at /var/www/vexforum.gq/node_modules/async/dist/async.js:950:9
at eachOfLimit (/var/www/vexforum.gq/node_modules/async/dist/async.js:975:24)
at /var/www/vexforum.gq/node_modules/async/dist/async.js:980:16
at eachOf (/var/www/vexforum.gq/node_modules/async/dist/async.js:1051:5)
at _parallel (/var/www/vexforum.gq/node_modules/async/dist/async.js:3829:5)
at Object.parallelLimit [as parallel] (/var/www/vexforum.gq/node_modules/async/dist/async.js:3912:5)
at async.waterfall.str (/var/www/vexforum.gq/src/middleware/render.js:77:12)
at nextTask (/var/www/vexforum.gq/node_modules/async/dist/async.js:5273:14)
at next (/var/www/vexforum.gq/node_modules/async/dist/async.js:5280:9)
at /var/www/vexforum.gq/node_modules/async/dist/async.js:906:16
at /var/www/vexforum.gq/node_modules/async/dist/async.js:421:16

[a632079]

Have you tried run ./nodebb setup or ./nodebb build? It seems that it did't build the static files.