After running ./nodebb dev, it seems my mongo database is down and the service isn't starting correctly.

I'm assuming this is because I didn't cleanly shut this VM down. I assume a clean shutdown for nodebb would require stopping both the nodebb and mongod services, correct?

Because now when I try to start mongod, I get errors on that front too. Note I already deleted mongod.lock

It looks like the culprit is now an unclean shutdown of the mongodb service. Any suggestions?

For the mongod, so far I have:

• verified the mongod.service exists
• sudo systemctl mongod start
• sudo service mongod status <- still shows as failed

@MEricson, is everything functioning correctly?

OS: Ubuntu 16.04
node version 6.10.3

I followed the setup documentation that defines setting up the nodebb service but after a server reboot my service fails to load. The initial service, prior to reboot, was working fine and I got as far as creating my proxies to make the site reachable by domain.

My nodebb.service is a copy/paste from the docs:

--
[Unit]
Description=NodeBB forum for Node.js.
Documentation=http://nodebb.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
After=system.slice multi-user.target

[Service]
Type=simple
User=nodebb

StandardOutput=syslog
StandardError=syslog
SyslogIdentifier=nodebb

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

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

The service starts after $sudo service nodebb start but then fails.
After start:

After checking status <5 seconds later:

I'll admit I'm not the most *nix savvy, so this may be simple user error. I found this that mentioned something about non-existing /html/ directories but I don't know what that means in regards to the nodebb.service.

@PitaJ , is an IP address something that can be used as the URL?

My original config.json file used http://localhost:4567, but to test access from external hosts, I tried using the IP address of the nodebb server. As others above have found, this doesn't work because the URLs must match.

How then can I configure the config.json file to use an IP address, temporarily? This is only for internal testing, so I'm not using a webserver or proxy yet.

My goal is to use my nodebb server IP address as the URL value and navigate to that from other hosts.

However, when I try to use the IP address, both the Nodebb server and other hosts receive the connection lost error message.

config.json:

{
"url": "192.168.1.148:4567",
"secret": "NULL",
"database": "mongo",
"mongo": {
"host": "127.0.0.1",
"port": "27017",
"username": "nodebb",
"password": "NULL",
"database": "nodebb"
}
}