Think 'mongo' and 'meh' pretty much sums it up, for me, anyhow!

Happy using bbPress for my needs

Guess it didn't like that Mongo version number guestimate?

npm ERR! No compatible version found: connect-mongo@~2.0.0

Everything about the Mongo DB files and settings are still very unclear. Plus there are no hints as to what to do or try, just faffing about and hoping for the best. I don't even have a mongodb.conf file anywhere on my computer. Maybe stretching into the 36 hours straight.

Adding:

"mongo": "~0.10.1",
"connect-mongo": "~2.0.0"

to package.json, but I have no idea what I'm doing or why that would work.

I'll see what I can do. In any case, I could perhaps provide some input to your upcoming OSX / Heroku / Mongolab chapter

Edit: My final input for your OSX install guide is in the top post. I would advice to make the installation meant for the Cloud platform independent of the user's choice of computer. He wants to use this thing in the cloud, simple as that, and not at home on his little machine.

@reid said:

You seem to be taking a very negative stance on NodeBB based on your inability to install it.

My first impression is that it IS impossible to install it. Most people would probably have resigned after 12–18 hours of not getting it to work. First impressions matter. I guess most OSX users wouldn't be able to change their drive to a different OSX version either, as according to the instructions ONLY Mavericks macs can install this forum (within the OSX family).

I'd say I've been very, very patient and enduring.

@psychobunny said:

(if you're patient enough to wait)

TBH, I was hoping to get it done in 24 hours with no sleep.

Skipping Step 10 as I don't know what to write there. Proceeding with 12, 13 etc. Crossing my fingers and hoping for the best.

I'm at point 10, and got the above cited errors from point 9 on the list.

I'm wondering what to write in step 10, as obviously I can't follow the manual and enter redis stuff.

Point 9 was "node app --setup", did I do wrong in trusting that?

Point 10 is a hard one to guess:

10. Add the following two packages to the dependencies section of your package.json:

"dependencies": {
...
"redis": "~0.10.1",
"connect-redis": "~2.0.0"
},
"devDependencies": {

I don't use redis, but mongo.