Struggling to set up NodeBB on local computer

[babaggeii]

After starting node with ./nodebb start I get the output:

Starting NodeBB
"./nodebb stop" to stop the NodeBB server
"./nodebb log" to view server output

But on visiting localhost:4567 I get This web page is not available.

Looking at the logs, I can see the following output, repeating every second or so:

[cluster] Spinning up another process...
[cluster] Child Process (6951) listening for connections.
[cluster] Child Process (6951) has exited (code: 7)
[cluster] Spinning up another process...

The setup used the defaults, so it's definitely the correct port. What am I doing wrong here?

[Xiph]

Running it with ./nodebb dev should give you a more detailed output.

[babaggeii]

@Xiph Ah, thanks very much. It seems that it was looking for a theme that wasn't installed. What happened was that I had installed nodebb some months ago and played around a bit. Now the new installation is using the same database as the old, but with the new file system. I'll set it up again with a new database. Thanks for the heads up on the ./nodebb dev command

[Xiph]

@babaggeii said:

@Xiph Ah, thanks very much. It seems that it was looking for a theme that wasn't installed. What happened was that I had installed nodebb some months ago and played around a bit. Now the new installation is using the same database as the old, but with the new file system. I'll set it up again with a new database. Thanks for the heads up on the ./nodebb dev command

No problem, here to help :bowtie:

If you want to keep the data from your old database, you can try running the ./nodebb upgrade command, although personally I've only used it to upgrade between subsequent versions of NodeBB, so I can't guarantee it'll work flawlessly in your case. It'd probably be wise to take a backup of your database if you want to try it.

[julian]

@Xiph said:

It'd probably be wise to take a backup of your database if you want to try it.

Always a good thing to do when automated tools supposedly mess around with your data