Elastic Beanstalk Deployment Issue

[Shawn Blanchard]

When using eb deploy on AWS, the deploy is successful but when the homepage is refreshed, NodeBB returns to the original setup page for an admin account. If re-enter the admin account info and then refresh a few times, the site does come back up and no data has been lost.

Any thoughts on this issue?

thanks

[julian]

Can you share more details about your setup? To my knowledge, eb is just a load balancer, right?

It sounds like you're running NodeBB on a system that doesn't allow you to persist files to disk... let me know if I am correct. In that scenario, you'll not want to save your config to file, but use environment variables instead...

[Shawn Blanchard]

nodebb is running on a EC2 instance ( linux ). the eb deploy is a CLI command that uploads to AWS and deploys the latest code. My config.json file on the EC2 instance is not overriden. The only effect is that when I reload the homepage, it shows the initial setup admin user page.

[julian]

@Shawn-Blanchard said in Elastic Beanstalk Deployment Issue:

The only effect is that when I reload the homepage, it shows the initial setup admin user page.

Yes, that's what I mean... if you're seeing the initial set page (the orange one), then it means NodeBB restarted, didn't find config.json, and thus kickstarted the web install process.

[Shawn Blanchard]

thanks @julian