@julian
Just do all the stuff from the scratch solve all the problem.

Well, I just figure out that all I need to do is npm rebuild, and I could proceed. However, when I tried to setup, it stucks here:

[email protected] node_modules/connect-redis
└── [email protected] ([email protected])
Populating database with default configs, if not already set...
Enabling default theme: Persona
No categories found, populating instance with default categories

Does this need any Internet connection to continue?

@julian
I followed the steps. However, when I tried to setup the forum from either web or command line, the following error occured:

11/9 15:27 [9907] - info: Now configuring redis database:
    Configuration Saved OK
    [email protected] node_modules/redis
    [email protected] node_modules/connect-redis
    └── [email protected] ([email protected])
    Populating database with default configs, if not already set...
    module.js:522
      var nodePath = process.env['NODE_PATH'];
                            ^
    Error: Module did not self-register.
        at Error (native)
        at Module.load (module.js:355:32)
        at Function.Module._load (module.js:310:12)
        at Module.require (module.js:365:17)
        at require (module.js:384:17)
        at Object.<anonymous> (/home/NodeBB/node_modules/mmmagic/index.js:3:13)
        at Module._compile (module.js:460:26)
        at Object.Module._extensions..js (module.js:478:10)
        at Module.load (module.js:355:32)
        at Function.Module._load (module.js:310:12)

No idea what's going on here.

How can I install nodeBB without any Internet connection? I would like to set up a forum in our school's local network. I could get the ubuntu package images, but it's no way for me to connect to npm or github.

I'm moving on to it for the zh_CN using the new ID Z4Tech.

I have no idea about the user system.

@julian working on it!

@baris
/Users/xxx/node/NodeBB/public/language/cn/.DS_Store:1
(function (exports, require, module, __filename, __dirname) {
^
SyntaxError: Unexpected token ILLEGAL
at Module._compile (module.js:439:25)
at Object.Module._extensions..js (module.js:474:10)
at Module.load (module.js:356:32)
at Function.Module._load (module.js:312:12)
at Module.require (module.js:364:17)
at require (module.js:380:17)
at /Users/bill/node/NodeBB/public/src/translator.js:189:66
at /Users/bill/node/NodeBB/public/src/utils.js:56:9
at Object.oncomplete (fs.js:107:15)

Just like this...I've fixed it. Mac automatically adds this file into the folder and in language.js it reads every file in the folder...

The software is perfect that I can't wait to kick off on it. But there's some problem while I was trying to add Chinese to the language set. Is it ok to just add a new folder to /public/language? Every time I do that, even if I just simply copy a folder from the existing ones and modify the language.json, it throws an error and the process goes off. I guess it's not that easy?