Installing nodebb on openshift

nhl.pl

Please try to install NodeBB using this guide.
https://github.com/ahwayakchih/openshift-nodebb

thebotanyofsouls

Step 3 is the same line of code that is giving me problems:

 cd nodebb && git remote add upstream -m master https://github.com/NodeBB/NodeBB.git

When I use CD, it CD's on my local machine and not in openshift - is that the intention of this command? The GIT command gets the following error when ran by itself

fatal: Not a git repository (or any parent up to mount point /home/dopers)
Stopping at filesystem boundary (GIT_DISCOVERY_ACROSS_FILESYSTEM not set).

nhl.pl

If you're running Windows try this one.
https://community.nodebb.org/topic/3866/guide-nodebb-0-6-1-on-openshift-for-windows-users-with-putty/1

thebotanyofsouls

Not a windows users, using Ubuntu 14.04

nhl.pl

Please split commands and add 'git init' before or after 'cd nodebb' command.

git init
cd nodebb
git remote add upstream -m master https://github.com/NodeBB/NodeBB.git

Please read returned errors and configure your Git. Those steps below are optional and it will work without them.

git config --global user.name "user@server"
git config --global user.name "username"

git config --global push.default matching
git config --global push.default simple

thebotanyofsouls

Wow man, thanks! That got me all the way to the very last command

git push origin master

When I do this, the following error is what outputs

fatal: 'origin' does not appear to be a git repository
fatal: Could not read from remote repository.

Please make sure you have the correct access rights
and the repository exists.

nhl.pl

rhc should do it for you.

git config branch.master.remote origin
git config branch.master.merge refs/heads/master

or maybe

git push origin master ; git branch --set-upstream master origin/master

thebotanyofsouls

Using those, the same error occurs but adds the following lines

The --set-upstream flag is deprecated and will be removed. Consider using --track or --set-upstream-to
error: the requested upstream branch 'origin/master' does not exist

adding openshift to the command prompts me for a username/pass for the github in NodeBB, if that helps.

nhl.pl

Looks like a problem on your local machine.
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10898617/git-push-origin-master-getting-origin-doesnt-appear-to-be-a-git-repository
and
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/13509293/git-fatal-could-not-read-from-remote-repository

You can always delete OpenShift Gear and start from a scratch. And creating a new user on your local Ubuntu is not a bad idea in that case.

ahwayakchih

Hi,

It looks like rhc app create nodebb nodejs-0.10 command did not create nodebb directory.

Please make sure, that you're running commands on your own computer, not through ssh on OpenShift side.

Try to remove nodebb from your OpenShift account and start from scratch.

Calling git init may seemed like it helped, but it created local only repository, which was not connected with any of the others (OpenShift, NodeBB and openshift-nodebb). That is why git push origin master did not work - origin remote was not configured.