Fixed it. addresses didn't match. between my actual ip and the config.json file

I finally figured it out.
It's up and running at
http://34.217.204.98:4567/

Although I get a message saying "looks like your connection to nodebb was lost" hmm... I'm going to have to search for another thread related to that.

@pitaj Yeah, that's not working. Most likely I don't know what I'm doing, but it just times out.

This is what I have in the console

9/3 03:16:20 [1786] - info: NodeBB Ready
9/3 03:16:20 [1786] - info: Enabling 'trust proxy'
9/3 03:16:20 [1786] - info: NodeBB is now listening on: 0.0.0.0:4567

I go here
http://ec2-34-213-181-70.us-west-2.compute.amazonaws.com:4567/

and it just hangs

Ok I think it's running. Now how do I look at it in my browser. haha
I have a AWS free tier instance

@julian I'm using this guide https://nodebb.readthedocs.io/en/latest/installing/os/ubuntu.html

I'm looking at it in Chrome on Linux Mint Ubuntu 16.04 LTS

I put in the line breaks
I notice that you don't have this line that I do
Environment=NODE_ENV=production

I finally got past this error.
It took a couple of uninstalls and reinstalls of mongo until i finally got the details right.

but now I have a new problem

I'm still working my way through the install guide which BTW doesn't look like it's rendering correctly on my browser but that's beside the point
I got to the part where I setup a nodebb.service file.
This is what my nodebb.service file looks like

[Service] Type=simple User=nodebb

StandardOutput=syslog StandardError=syslog SyslogIdentifier=nodebb

Environment=NODE_ENV=production WorkingDirectory=/home/ubuntu/nodebb ExecStart=/usr/bin/node loader.js –no-daemon –no-silent Restart=always

[Install] WantedBy=multi-user.target

1. Does this seem correct?

2. When I go to the next step and run sudo systemctl enable nodebb, I get this message: Failed to execute operation: Bad message

@baris So, just to confirm with you ... if you had anything you wanted to suggest. It still won't install

Yes ... yes it does.

    "url": "http://localhost:4567",
    "secret": "<series of numbers and letters here>",
    "database": "mongo",
    "port": 4567,
    "mongo": {
        "host": "127.0.0.1",
        "port": "27017",
        "username": "<it has my username here>",
        "password": "<it has my password here>",
        "database": "nodebb"
    }

I'm getting the following message when I run ./nodebb setup

23/2 14:56:21 [6251] - info: NodeBB Setup Triggered via Command Line

Welcome to NodeBB!

This looks like a new installation, so you'll have to answer a few questions about your environment before we can proceed.
Press enter to accept the default setting (shown in brackets).

23/2 14:56:21 [6251] - info: Now configuring mongo database:
Configuration Saved OK
23/2 14:56:22 [6251] - error: NodeBB could not connect to your Mongo database. Mongo returned the following error: Authentication failed.
23/2 14:56:22 [6251] - warn: NodeBB Setup Aborted.
 MongoError: Authentication failed.
    at Function.MongoError.create (/home/ubuntu/nodebb/node_modules/mongodb-core/lib/error.js:31:11)
    at /home/ubuntu/nodebb/node_modules/mongodb-core/lib/connection/pool.js:497:72
    at authenticateStragglers (/home/ubuntu/nodebb/node_modules/mongodb-core/lib/connection/pool.js:443:16)
    at Connection.messageHandler (/home/ubuntu/nodebb/node_modules/mongodb-core/lib/connection/pool.js:477:5)
    at Socket.<anonymous> (/home/ubuntu/nodebb/node_modules/mongodb-core/lib/connection/connection.js:321:22)
    at emitOne (events.js:96:13)
    at Socket.emit (events.js:188:7)
    at readableAddChunk (_stream_readable.js:176:18)
    at Socket.Readable.push (_stream_readable.js:134:10)
    at TCP.onread (net.js:559:20)

I'm particularly concerned with the error. I'm able to log in to the nodebb db in mongo using nodebb as username and using my password