[Solved] Spinning up a second instance of NodeBB on same server.. issues with redis?

[kelso]

I'm extremely new to the whole "redis" and nodejs thing, but getting along nicely thus far.

So, I setup a new user, git cloned and started the setup. As I understand it, you can have 16 databases on an individual instance of reddit. I'm using Debian 7 and it doesnt appear to support UpStart so that route wasnt working for me, but perhaps the issue Im having isnt related to that at all.

I first setup with all defaults except changing the port for Node from 4567 to 4568, failing to realize I had to change the db from 0 to 1. So, when I saw my first NodeBB instead of the new one I setup, I quickly realized my mistake.

I ran the setup again and changed the redis db to 1 this time, and it in fact then prompted for username and password like I'd expect.

However... During the final part of setup, I get this.

info: Beginning database schema update
info: [2014/1/5] Upgraded categories active users
info: [2014/1/5] Re-slugify usernames (again)
info: [2014/1/7] Updated topic and user posts to sorted set
info: [2014/1/13] Set up "Registered Users" user group
info: [2014/1/19] Remove user search from Reds
info: [2014/1/23] Updating Administrators Group -- skipped
info: [2014/1/25] Updating User Gravatars to HTTPS 
info: [2014/1/25] Done activating SSO plugins 
info: [2014/1/30] Fixing language settings -- skipped
info: [2014/1/30] Adding new topic sets  
info: [2014/2/6] Upvoting all favourited posts for each user
info: [2014/2/7] Updating category recent replies 
info: [2014/2/9] Remove Topic LastFeedUpdate value, as feeds are now on-demand
-------error: [upgrade] Errors were encountered while updating the NodeBB schema: Error: ERR no such key

And due to that, I'm unable to start nodebb because it thinks it's out of date, but running the update gives the error above..

Help a noob out

[psychobunny]

In redis-cli you could probably do

select 1
flushdb

and start over (I'm assuming you messed up your fresh install and not the original install?)

[kelso]

Correct, my initial install is still fine.

I did what you said to do, but when running setup, same error during upgrade.
error: [upgrade] Errors were encountered while updating the NodeBB schema: Error: ERR no such key

[baris]

@kelso please update to

fixes upgrade on a empty database · NodeBB/[email protected]

Node.js based forum software built for the modern web - fixes upgrade on a empty database · NodeBB/[email protected]

GitHub (github.com)

flushdb 1 and try again.

[kelso]

That did the trick, thanks! if you couldnt tell, I already love the product and am deploying in two new projects.

[Couby]

Hi,

I'm also trying to run a second NodeBB instance (love this new generation forum ) on same server.
I'm encountering difficulties, but not the same.

I run the setup, defined a different port 4568 and different Redis DB number 1 (first instance on 4567 with RDS DB 0).

Starting up this second NodeBB instance I see in the log that the startup doesn't end and restart just after attempting to listen on my 192.168.1.10:4568, endlessly.

info: [user.startJobs] Registering User Jobs
info: [meta/css] Minifying LESS/CSS
info: [sounds] Sounds OK
info: [themes] Compiling templates
info: [themes] Successfully compiled templates.
info: NodeBB attempting to listen on: 192.168.1.10:4568
info: NodeBB v0.4.3 Copyright (C) 2013-2014 NodeBB Inc.
info: This program comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
info: This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions.

Any idea about what I miss ?

Regards
info:
info: Time: Tue Jun 10 2014 22:25:17 GMT+0200 (CEST)

[a_5mith]

@Frédéric-Coubard Can you try ./nodebb dev on your second instance and paste the result.

[julian]

@Frédéric-Coubard Looks like there is no problem to me?

[Couby]

@a_5mith will try this evening.

[Couby]

@julian you mean it is normal this instance restarting endlessly ?

[julian]

@Frédéric-Coubard Ah, missed that it was restarting over and over again. Yeah, run it in dev mode and let's see what the error is...

[Couby]

Sorry for this late feedback.
For some reasons I had to reinstall my whole server. And now the run of the two nodeBB instances is working fine. So maybe nothing related to nodeBB itself. That rocks :-). Thanks for your answers.

[Tanner]

I'm having an issue where I've installed two instances of NodeBB on the same server, set the redis databases to be different yet the following error occurs:

Whenver you login or logout of one forum, you logout of the other. Is this a common issue and can be solved easily or am I in deep water here?

[julian]

1. I find it hilarious that only as little as 6 months ago, our totally legitimate advice was "try dropping your db and reinstall"
2. Are the secrets in config.json different?
3. Are the two NodeBBs on the same base_url?
4. Check the cookie saved in the browser, I'm thinking perhaps they're overwriting each other...

[Tanner]

@julian

1. That's hilarious

2. The secrets are indeed different

3. The base_url's are the same except for the ports

4. I'll clear my cookies and see if that fixes the issue.

[julian]

As far as I know, the ports aren't considered in a cookie's domain path (limitation of the cookie mechanism, I think), so that would explain it. They're overwriting each other.

[Tanner]

It seems that even if I refresh on one instance it logs me out of the other. How strange.