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.