Hello!
So I've been trying to setup NodeBB on a DO droplet (Ubuntu 14.04) with mongodb -- and I think some of the documentation might be outdated.
Regardless of which during the nodebb setup I'm getting errors about a "double colon in host identifier" -- if I try to change a few things I get "connect ECONNREFUSED"
And due to various tutorials, I've confused myself more than I'd like to admit.
Is there an official up to date documented guide to installing NodeBB?
In case anyone is curious and is having the same issues that I was having, I decided (and found out how to use) the web installer.
Once you've cloned your copy of the repo of NodeBB and snatched your dependencies -- go to your directory that you've copied the repo to.
use: "ls -la" to make sure you can see the "loader.js" file -- now what you're gonna want to do is use "nodejs loader.js" (we use nodejs because ubuntu has conflicts and needs to use nodejs to avoid said conflicts).
The first time I ran the web installer it did not like my personal inputs for the db name and password and even name of the database - so for the 2nd time, after I selected to use "MongoDB" for the database, I left the rest blank.
This worked.
Hope this helps any others!
p.s. -- if anyone knows readily where the mongodb database files are being stored for nodebb, that'd be helpful!
You prob should have a read in this https://docs.mongodb.org/manual/tutorial/enable-authentication/
login to mongo > show dbs
@Joykiller did read it, didn't help, and couldn't get it to work. Not saying it's wrong, saying I didn't understand it lol.
Step 6: Adding a New Database With Users
To go into the MongoDB command line, type:
$ mongo
To add a new database called nodebb, type:
use nodebb
To add a user to access the nodebb database, type:
For MongoDB 2.6.x
db.createUser( { user: "nodebb", pwd: "<Enter in a secure password>", roles: [ "readWrite" ] } )
Copypasta from doc's. then once you install it using that db/user/pw - go into mongo and type: show dbs
Then you will see the database used for nodebb you setup and modify values using use nameofdb
So far thats all I know, I started using nodebb like yesterday (well a few days ago), Mongo at same time.
I don't think it was Mongodb's user or db being the issue ._.
Pretty sure "host identifier" has something to do with either nodebb or mongo's hosting setup, but I think it was that of NodeBB
on the second time it wasn't accepting my webInstaller settings - not through the command line.
But thanks.
@ZenOokami said:
I don't think it was Mongodb's user or db being the issue ._.
Pretty sure "host identifier" has something to do with either nodebb or mongo's hosting setup, but I think it was that of NodeBBon the second time it wasn't accepting my webInstaller settings - not through the command line.
But thanks.
I wasn't talking about host identifier, I was talking about how to set up using auth and managing your DB's.
You having connection issues you should post all your logs, including nodebb, nginx configurations etc.
You said:
double colon in host identifier
Most likely issue with having a wrong syntax with the config.
