title: Installing NodeBB with MongoDB on Mac OS time: 2016.04.19 18:17:48 layout: post tags:
My attempt to use NodeBB could be largely attributed to the simplicity of its install instructions. Yet I ended up spending much more time fixing all kinds of install problems. :joy: So this post serves as a hint for someone who runs into a similar situation.
{% highlight bash %} brew install mongodb {% endhighlight %}
MongoDB can be easily installed on Mac OS using brew.
But after that, I found myself fail to login with terminal.
{% highlight bash %} $ mongo MongoDB shell version: 3.2.4 connecting to: test 2016-04-19T16:46:45.522+0800 W NETWORK [thread1] Failed to connect to 127.0.0.1:27017, reason: errno:61 Connection refused 2016-04-19T16:46:45.524+0800 E QUERY [thread1] Error: couldn't connect to server 127.0.0.1:27017, connection attempt failed : connect@src/mongo/shell/mongo.js:224:14 @(connect):1:6 {% endhighlight %}
Accoding to StackOverflow, this is because mongodb service is not running. And it worked after the following instruction.
{% highlight bash %} brew services start mongodb {% endhighlight %}
As NodeBB install instructions states, the interactive installation is available with:
{% highlight bash %} ./nodebb setup {% endhighlight %}
Well, it failed and gave the following error message:
{% highlight bash %} error: NodeBB could not connect to your Mongo database. Mongo returned the following error: Authentication failed. {% endhighlight %}
I don't know the default username and password of my MongoDB. So I created a new user and fixed this problem.
{% highlight bash %} db.createUser({user:'username', pwd:'password', roles:[{role:'readWrite', db:'db-name'}]}) {% endhighlight %}
Before that, I also created a database called db-name by using use db-name. But this procedure is unnecessary, which I will explain later.
After that, I ran into the following error message:
{% highlight bash %} /Users/baidu/Workspace/NodeBB/src/database/mongo.js:141 db.objects.dropIndex({_key:1, value: -1}); ^ SyntaxError: Unexpected token ; at exports.runInThisContext (vm.js:53:16) at Module._compile (module.js:373:25) at Object.Module._extensions..js (module.js:416:10) at Module.load (module.js:343:32) at Function.Module._load (module.js:300:12) at Module.require (module.js:353:17) at require (internal/module.js:12:17) at Object.<anonymous> (/Users/baidu/Workspace/NodeBB/install/databases.js:9:9) at Module._compile (module.js:409:26) at Object.Module._extensions..js (module.js:416:10) {% endhighlight %}
I searched but found no similar questions, only knowing this concerned with creating something supposed to have unique name.
Yep. That's why I shouldn't create the database db-name in MongoDB shell. But this is really weired, right? You need to create a user, but not a database.
NodeBB told me to create an admin.
{% highlight bash %} warn: No administrators have been detected, running initial user setup Administrator username echarts-admin Administrator email address echarts@baidu.com Password Confirm Password {% endhighlight %}
I thought this could be different from my MongoDB, but it turned out to be:
{% highlight bash %} warn: NodeBB Setup Aborted. Error: [[user:change_password_error_length]] at Object.User.isPasswordValid (/Users/baidu/Workspace/NodeBB/src/user/create.js:193:20) at async.parallel.passwordValid (/Users/baidu/Workspace/NodeBB/src/user/create.js:165:11) at /Users/baidu/Workspace/NodeBB/node_modules/async/lib/async.js:718:13 at async.forEachOf.async.eachOf (/Users/baidu/Workspace/NodeBB/node_modules/async/lib/async.js:233:13) at _parallel (/Users/baidu/Workspace/NodeBB/node_modules/async/lib/async.js:717:9) at Object.async.parallel (/Users/baidu/Workspace/NodeBB/node_modules/async/lib/async.js:731:9) at Object.User.isDataValid (/Users/baidu/Workspace/NodeBB/src/user/create.js:152:9) at Object.User.create (/Users/baidu/Workspace/NodeBB/src/user/create.js:22:8) at async.waterfall.adminUid (/Users/baidu/Workspace/NodeBB/src/install.js:275:11) at fn (/Users/baidu/Workspace/NodeBB/node_modules/async/lib/async.js:746:34) at /Users/baidu/Workspace/NodeBB/node_modules/async/lib/async.js:1213:16 at /Users/baidu/Workspace/NodeBB/node_modules/async/lib/async.js:166:37 at /Users/baidu/Workspace/NodeBB/node_modules/async/lib/async.js:706:43 at /Users/baidu/Workspace/NodeBB/node_modules/async/lib/async.js:167:37 at Object.async.waterfall (/Users/baidu/Workspace/NodeBB/node_modules/async/lib/async.js:710:44) at success (/Users/baidu/Workspace/NodeBB/src/install.js:273:10) {% endhighlight %}
This could be fixed by using the same username and password of your MongoDB user.
All these steps are described by NodeBB as:
Run interactive installation:
./nodebb setup
You may leave all of the options as default.
You know what, this is how you teach someone to draw a horse:
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Just kidding... I love NodeBB! :heart_eyes: