NodeBB not couldn't start without sudo!?

Anand Kumar

When I am trying to start NodeBB without sudo it gives the following error:

2018-08-26T06:14:14.539Z [29887] - info: Initializing NodeBB v1.10.1 https://forum.my-nodebb-forum.com
2018-08-26T06:14:15.792Z [29887] - error: NodeBB could not connect to your Mongo database. Mongo returned the following error message=connect ECONNREFUSED 127.0.0.1:27017, name=MongoNetworkError, stack=Error: connect ECONNREFUSED 127.0.0.1:27017
    at Object._errnoException (util.js:992:11)
    at _exceptionWithHostPort (util.js:1014:20)
    at TCPConnectWrap.afterConnect [as oncomplete] (net.js:1186:14)
2018-08-26T06:14:15.799Z [29887] - error:  message=connect ECONNREFUSED 127.0.0.1:27017, name=MongoNetworkError, stack=Error: connect ECONNREFUSED 127.0.0.1:27017
    at Object._errnoException (util.js:992:11)
    at _exceptionWithHostPort (util.js:1014:20)
    at TCPConnectWrap.afterConnect [as oncomplete] (net.js:1186:14)
[cluster] Child Process (29887) has exited (code: 0, signal: null)

What could be the possible issue? The site is behind Nginx and Cloudflare.

When I use sudo it works fine

Thanks in advance!

Mikael Jenkler

Look strange, there should be no problem running nodebb as standard user. The app tells you that its unable to connect to Mongodb (127.0.0.1:27017)

Correct perms in the tree ? Try to set the computers ip and not 127.0.0.1. Do you run mongodb on the same host?

Anand Kumar

@Jenkler Hi, Why it needs sudo to connect with db server? shouldn't there be also error. I will try replacing the ip. Let's see what happens.

Bri

What are the permissions on your config file? You might have created it as the sudo user and now non-privileged users can't read it.

Mikael Jenkler

It does not need sudo to connect to a db server. But the error says that it cant connet too the db Something else must be wrong here!