Basics! Admin Access

[Shard]

I'm going to start by noting that if the walk through docs cover this, it isn't any place obvious.

I've been away from Nodebb for a bit ( 0.6.x) as it's been moving a bit too rapidly for my workplace project - particualrly when they still had no blessed clue what they wanted done.

They've asked me so I installed a clean 0.9.x to start fresh. I am using node 0.10.36 as provided by the OS and the Mongo back end.

It's been a while, but as I recall, the first user created was automatically the server admin. Either that recollection is off or it's no longer work as I can't seem to reach the admin panel. At all.

Any inobvious pointers?

0.9.x branch, commit cee3918e9b8096e421933678178ddfe4e3b71adf

[Kowlin]

The first admin user is made in the installation. Either by ./nodebb setup or by using the web installer. The admin user is created after you enter your database information. Or on the web installer below the database information

[Shard]

@Kowlin Curious. I was not prompted for such.

I'll rerun it.

[julian]

@Shard welcome back!

If the database already contains NodeBB data, then the prompt to create an admin user will not appear.

[JaredBusch]

@Shard I had problems with a clean 0.9.X isntall with node 10.

See my thread here: https://community.nodebb.org/topic/7024/errors-while-installing-new-0-9-0-to-new-centos-7-vm/11

[Shard]

I re-ran the setup and found I'd linked the old db instead of teh new, hence the user issue.

Logging in with the admin user throws a forbidden, bad csrf.

Okay, I'll try with a newer build. I used the updated documentation @JaredBusch PR'd and I get this oddity.

[nodebb]$ ./nodebb setup
module.js:355
Module._extensions[extension](this, filename);
^
Error: Module did not self-register.
at Error (native)
at Module.load (module.js:355:32)
at Function.Module._load (module.js:310:12)
at Module.require (module.js:365:17)
at require (module.js:384:17)
at Object.<anonymous> (/mnt/Extra/home/dbolack/MWM/nodebb/node_modules/mmmagic/lib/index.js:3:13)
at Module._compile (module.js:460:26)
at Object.Module._extensions..js (module.js:478:10)
at Module.load (module.js:355:32)
at Function.Module._load (module.js:310:12)
[nodebb]$ node -v
v0.12.7

Any thoughts? The only thing that immediately comes to mind is still using OS Repo provided npm and a good number of libraries.

Installed:
node-gyp.noarch 0.10.6-4.fc22
nodejs.x86_64 0.10.36-4.fc22
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Fedora 22 as I'm, just doing this on my workstation for now. I'll be ultimately deploying to Cent 7, so I'll verify that in a smidge.

[psychobunny]

Can you run npm i first and see if that goes through?

[julian]

That mmmagic error... if you're on latest, just uninstall it, as we don't use it any longer. npm unl mmmagic

[Shard]

@psychobunny

It does.

@julian I'm 0n 0.9.x branch. If I uninstall that one, I get a new error. I rerun the npm i and it reinstalled it - but now it's working...

nodebb]$ git branch && git log

• v0.9.x
  commit cee3918e9b8096e421933678178ddfe4e3b71adf
  Author: Julian Lam [email protected]
  Date: Sun Nov 8 11:57:18 2015 -0500

  fixing crash on settings save

commit 05ef18fb2e9e4d1eea35c80192ab877ad653ab82
Merge: 1012287 9de8250
Author: Julian Lam [email protected]
Date: Sat Nov 7 11:30:49 2015 -0500

Merge branch 'master' into v0.9.x

I guess it needed to rebuild?

[julian]

mmmagic? Nah, you won't need it anymore in v0.9.x

[Shard]

@julian

Dunno what was wrong that day. Did a pull to update, then did the same steps as I had before and it decided to work.

Go fig.