issues installing Nodebb on Debian 8

Scott

The guide for installation on Debian seems to be focused towards Debian 6 and 7.

I've only installed curl and redis.

I'm on root if that makes any difference

Joykiller

I'm running Debian 8, Mongo 3.2.1, Redis-server 3.0.6, Nodejs v0.12.9, npm 2.14.9 Everything seems to be running perfectly.

If your having issues you prob want to post logs so people can help understand the main fault.

Scott

I go into the nodebb folder and type ./nodebb setup and get this error

module.js:338
throw err;
^
Error: Cannot find module './system/supports-colors'
at Function.Module._resolveFilename (module.js:336:15)
at Function.Module._load (module.js:278:25)
at Module.require (module.js:365:17)
at require (module.js:384:17)
at Object.<anonymous> (/root/nodebb/node_modules/colors/lib/colors.js:39:24)
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)
at Module.require (module.js:365:17)

These are the only commands I ran

git clone -b v0.9.x https://github.com/NodeBB/NodeBB.git nodebb

apt-get install redis-server imagemagick git build-essential

sudo apt-get install curl

curl -sL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_0.12 | sudo bash -
sudo apt-get install -y nodejs

yariplus

You skipped the step

npm install

Scott

@yariplus

Oh thanks. I get this error tho

npm ERR! install Couldn't read dependencies
npm ERR! Linux 3.16.0-4-amd64
npm ERR! argv "/usr/bin/node" "/usr/bin/npm" "install"
npm ERR! node v0.12.9
npm ERR! npm v2.14.9
npm ERR! path /root/package.json
npm ERR! code ENOPACKAGEJSON
npm ERR! errno -2

npm ERR! package.json ENOENT, open '/root/package.json'
npm ERR! package.json This is most likely not a problem with npm itself.
npm ERR! package.json npm can't find a package.json file in your current directory.

npm ERR! Please include the following file with any support request:
npm ERR! /root/npm-debug.log

yariplus

Do it inside the nodebb directory.

Scott

@yariplus

That's where I did it.

pichalite

@jkyjky I believe you need to run npm install with argument when setting up NodeBB (not sure what difference it makes... didn't check code)

npm install --production

yariplus

@jkyjky Are you sure?

npm ERR! package.json npm can't find a package.json file in your current directory.

Scott

Yeah I did it in /nodebb folder.

In my root dir there's the Nodebb and NPM folders.

pichalite

@jkyjky said:

Based on the error log you posted... you ran npm install in the /root folder instead of in /root/nodebb

npm ERR! path /root/package.json
npm ERR! code ENOPACKAGEJSON
npm ERR! errno -2

npm ERR! package.json ENOENT, open '/root/package.json'

Scott

I did cd nodebb. Here's the npm debug file http://pastebin.com/kPEy6jnM

Scott

Got it installed! Had installed curl -sL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_0.12 | sudo bash - sudo apt-get install -y nodejs within the nodebb dir then ran npm install.

Nodebb doesn't show up at my server ip? I read that Debian comes with NgInx already.. I didn't install the dotDAB.

Joykiller

This might be just me, but I wouldn't be loading that under root directory. Create a new user and use that for nodebb location under home location. As to nodebb not showing up. What does your nodebb config, and nginx config look like? I don't know what you mean by debian comes with nginx already. Sure might be in the repo but shouldn't come installed, Unless a script you ran installed it for you.