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

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 https://github.com/designcreateplay/NodeBB/commit/0c093c2aaa7d2302c07f8b07ca366a4333519e63 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

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

Tanner

@julian

That's hilarious
The secrets are indeed different
The base_url's are the same except for the ports
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.