Create a NodeBB installation test on localhost

Glauco Zega

Hi there guys, I'd like to test this software on localhost. I currently have MAMP installed. Suggestions?

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@Dakoom basically you can run NodeBB on port 80 without the need of any other webservers.

Glauco Zega

But is there some sort of installation script or do I have to use the command line to configure it to be working on MAMP?

frissdiegurke

MAMP = Mac OS X Apache MySQL PHP, Perl, or Python

NodeBB is node.js based, using redisdb or mongodb; Apache or Nginx are mostly needed for reverse proxy if you don't want to use port-numbers within URL or root-permissions for the node-process.

So basically for local tests where you don't bother about port-numbers within URL you don't need/want-to-use MAMP at all. node.js !== PHP

Please take a look at the docs for standard installation on a MAC.

Glauco Zega

So I installed node and homebrew as per docs, I entered the previous commands and now I'm stuck at: git clone -b v0.9.x https://github.com/NodeBB/NodeBB.git. The terminal is stuck here. Maybe is it donwloading it? Excuse me but I'm pretty noob on this type of things. I never used these technologies.

Robert

Is Git installed by default on a Mac? I don't think so, but a work around is to get the files as a ZIP from the github page it self. https://github.com/NodeBB/NodeBB/archive/v0.9.x.zip (though also not recommended due that it will be harder to update your forum in a production environment)

Glauco Zega

Oh ok, then now I'm downloading and I'l linstall Git. Then I'll rety to send again that command. I'll let you know!

Glauco Zega

Ok, I installed Git, now the command works. Currently cloning... and finally installing dependencises... and I received these erros:

It also ask me now for a redis database name. What should I write for it?

npm WARN deprecated [email protected]: lodash@<2.0.0 is no longer maintained. Upgrade to lodash@^3.0.0
npm WARN deprecated [email protected]: lodash@<2.0.0 is no longer maintained. Upgrade to lodash@^3.0.0

[email protected] install /Users/Dakoom/NodeBB/node_modules/bufferutil
node-gyp rebuild

xcode-select: error: tool 'xcodebuild' requires Xcode, but active developer directory '/Library/Developer/CommandLineTools' is a command line tools instance

CXX(target) Release/obj.target/bufferutil/src/bufferutil.o
SOLINK_MODULE(target) Release/bufferutil.node

[email protected] install /Users/Dakoom/NodeBB/node_modules/utf-8-validate
node-gyp rebuild

xcode-select: error: tool 'xcodebuild' requires Xcode, but active developer directory '/Library/Developer/CommandLineTools' is a command line tools instance

CXX(target) Release/obj.target/validation/src/validation.o
SOLINK_MODULE(target) Release/validation.node

[email protected] install /Users/Dakoom/NodeBB/node_modules/heapdump
node-gyp rebuild

xcode-select: error: tool 'xcodebuild' requires Xcode, but active developer directory '/Library/Developer/CommandLineTools' is a command line tools instance

CXX(target) Release/obj.target/addon/src/heapdump.o
SOLINK_MODULE(target) Release/addon.node

EDIT: Ok, installed. Then I suppose that when I entered the db name it automatically created it. Ok, I have it installed and I'll try it a little bit! Thank you all for your suggestions!