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Ubuntu 16.04 mean.js installation (without using one click app)

Posted on June 17, 2017
MEAN
Ubuntu 16.04
Node.js
tengyong80

By tengyong80

I am trying to install mean.js on my ubuntu 16.04 using the following guide. And I keep getting stuck at the grunt stage.

https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-install-a-mean-js-stack-on-an-ubuntu-14-04-server

There were issues with building node so I install using nvm https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-install-node-js-on-ubuntu-16-04#how-to-install-using-nvm

Then there were issues with bower where the process was killed. Managed to solved that by adding swap. I have the 512 MB ram settings. https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-add-swap-on-ubuntu-14-04

Now my problem is grunt. I now have this error.

/opt/mean$ grunt A valid Gruntfile could not be found. Please see the getting started guide for more information on how to configure grunt: http://gruntjs.com/getting-started Fatal error: Unable to find Gruntfile.

Then when I tried

/opt/mean$ npm install npm WARN checkPermissions Missing write access to /opt/mean/node_modules/tiny-lr/node_modules npm WARN checkPermissions Missing write access to /opt/mean/node_modules/tiny-lr/node_modules/body-parser/node_modules npm WARN checkPermissions Missing write access to /opt/mean/node_modules/tiny-lr/node_modules/raw-body/node_modules npm WARN eslint-config-airbnb@6.0.2 requires a peer of eslint-plugin-react@^4.0.0 but none was installed. npm ERR! path /opt/mean/node_modules/tiny-lr/node_modules npm ERR! code EACCES npm ERR! errno -13 npm ERR! syscall access npm ERR! Error: EACCES: permission denied, access ‘/opt/mean/node_modules/tiny-lr/node_modules’ npm ERR! at Error (native) npm ERR! { Error: EACCES: permission denied, access ‘/opt/mean/node_modules/tiny-lr/node_modules’ npm ERR! at Error (native) npm ERR! errno: -13, npm ERR! code: ‘EACCES’, npm ERR! syscall: ‘access’, npm ERR! path: ‘/opt/mean/node_modules/tiny-lr/node_modules’ } npm ERR! npm ERR! Please try running this command again as root/Administrator. npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in: npm ERR! /home/ktyc/.npm/_logs/2017-06-17T08_43_13_072Z-debug.log

This is my second droplet try.

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tengyong80
tengyong80
June 27, 2017

@hansen

I will implement that security feature next time.

I did what you highlighted and I got the below after I ran npm install in the project folder. It’s only 3 warning but meanjs doesn’t seem to be running.

ktyc@Mark1:~$ cd meanjs ktyc@Mark1:~/meanjs$ ktyc@Mark1:~/meanjs$ npm install

meanjs@0.5.0 postinstall /home/ktyc/meanjs npm run bower

meanjs@0.5.0 bower /home/ktyc/meanjs bower install --allow-root && bower prune --allow-root

npm WARN optional SKIPPING OPTIONAL DEPENDENCY: fsevents@^1.0.0 (node_modules/ch okidar/node_modules/fsevents): npm WARN notsup SKIPPING OPTIONAL DEPENDENCY: Unsupported platform for fsevents@ 1.1.2: wanted {“os”:“darwin”,“arch”:“any”} (current: {“os”:“linux”,“arch”:“x64”} ) npm WARN eslint-config-airbnb@6.0.2 requires a peer of eslint-plugin-react@^4.0. 0 but none was installed. ktyc@Mark1:~/meanjs$

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tengyong80
tengyong80
June 29, 2017

@hansen

Yeap I got excited. I ran npm start and I still got the same error.

--
MEAN.JS - Development Environment

Environment:     development
Server:          http://0.0.0.0:3000
Database:        mongodb://localhost/mean-dev
App version:     0.5.0
MEAN.JS version: 0.5.0
--
Unhandled rejection MongoError: not authorized on mean-dev to execute command { listIndexes: "sessions", cursor: {} }
    at Function.MongoError.create (/home/ktyc/meanjs/node_modules/mongoose/node_modules/mongodb-core/lib/error.js:31:11)
    at queryCallback (/home/ktyc/meanjs/node_modules/mongoose/node_modules/mongodb-core/lib/cursor.js:212:36)
From previous event:
    at MongoStore.setAutoRemoveAsync (/home/ktyc/meanjs/node_modules/connect-mongo/src/index.js:129:40)
    at MongoStore.handleNewConnectionAsync (/home/ktyc/meanjs/node_modules/connect-mongo/src/index.js:121:18)
    at MongoStore (/home/ktyc/meanjs/node_modules/connect-mongo/src/index.js:89:26)
    at Object.module.exports.initSession (/home/ktyc/meanjs/config/lib/express.js:120:12)
    at Object.module.exports.init (/home/ktyc/meanjs/config/lib/express.js:242:8)
    at /home/ktyc/meanjs/config/lib/app.js:25:23
    at /home/ktyc/meanjs/config/lib/mongoose.js:38:15
    at /home/ktyc/meanjs/node_modules/mongoose/lib/connection.js:316:19
    at open (/home/ktyc/meanjs/node_modules/mongoose/lib/connection.js:682:17)
    at NativeConnection.Connection.onOpen (/home/ktyc/meanjs/node_modules/mongoose/lib/connection.js:692:5)
    at /home/ktyc/meanjs/node_modules/mongoose/lib/connection.js:652:11
    at /home/ktyc/meanjs/node_modules/mongoose/lib/drivers/node-mongodb-native/connection.js:71:5
    at /home/ktyc/meanjs/node_modules/mongoose/node_modules/mongodb/lib/db.js:238:5
    at Server.connectHandler (/home/ktyc/meanjs/node_modules/mongoose/node_modules/mongodb/lib/server.js:339:7)
    at Server.g (events.js:292:16)
    at emitOne (events.js:96:13)
    at Server.emit (events.js:188:7)
    at /home/ktyc/meanjs/node_modules/mongoose/node_modules/mongodb-core/lib/topologies/server.js:299:14
    at /home/ktyc/meanjs/node_modules/mongoose/node_modules/mongodb-core/lib/connection/pool.js:469:18
    at _combinedTickCallback (internal/process/next_tick.js:73:7)
    at process._tickCallback (internal/process/next_tick.js:104:9)

Unhandled rejection MongoError: not authorized on mean-dev to execute command { listIndexes: "sessions", cursor: {} }
    at Function.MongoError.create (/home/ktyc/meanjs/node_modules/mongoose/node_modules/mongodb-core/lib/error.js:31:11)
    at queryCallback (/home/ktyc/meanjs/node_modules/mongoose/node_modules/mongodb-core/lib/cursor.js:212:36)
From previous event:
    at MongoStore.setAutoRemoveAsync (/home/ktyc/meanjs/node_modules/connect-mongo/src/index.js:129:40)
    at MongoStore.handleNewConnectionAsync (/home/ktyc/meanjs/node_modules/connect-mongo/src/index.js:121:18)
    at MongoStore (/home/ktyc/meanjs/node_modules/connect-mongo/src/index.js:89:26)
    at module.exports (/home/ktyc/meanjs/config/lib/socket.io.js:73:20)
    at Object.module.exports.configureSocketIO (/home/ktyc/meanjs/config/lib/express.js:213:38)
    at Object.module.exports.init (/home/ktyc/meanjs/config/lib/express.js:257:14)
    at /home/ktyc/meanjs/config/lib/app.js:25:23
    at /home/ktyc/meanjs/config/lib/mongoose.js:38:15
    at /home/ktyc/meanjs/node_modules/mongoose/lib/connection.js:316:19
    at open (/home/ktyc/meanjs/node_modules/mongoose/lib/connection.js:682:17)
    at NativeConnection.Connection.onOpen (/home/ktyc/meanjs/node_modules/mongoose/lib/connection.js:692:5)
    at /home/ktyc/meanjs/node_modules/mongoose/lib/connection.js:652:11
    at /home/ktyc/meanjs/node_modules/mongoose/lib/drivers/node-mongodb-native/connection.js:71:5
    at /home/ktyc/meanjs/node_modules/mongoose/node_modules/mongodb/lib/db.js:238:5
    at Server.connectHandler (/home/ktyc/meanjs/node_modules/mongoose/node_modules/mongodb/lib/server.js:339:7)
    at Server.g (events.js:292:16)
    at emitOne (events.js:96:13)
    at Server.emit (events.js:188:7)
    at /home/ktyc/meanjs/node_modules/mongoose/node_modules/mongodb-core/lib/topologies/server.js:299:14
    at /home/ktyc/meanjs/node_modules/mongoose/node_modules/mongodb-core/lib/connection/pool.js:469:18
    at _combinedTickCallback (internal/process/next_tick.js:73:7)
    at process._tickCallback (internal/process/next_tick.js:104:9)
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tengyong80
tengyong80
June 29, 2017

@hansen Below are the users generated. I don’t know which user are connected to the Node app.

{
        "_id" : "admin.ktyc",
        "user" : "ktyc",
        "db" : "admin",
        "roles" : [
                {
                        "role" : "root",
                        "db" : "admin"
                },
                {
                        "role" : "readWrite",
                        "db" : "mean-dev"
                },
                {
                        "role" : "read",
                        "db" : "admin"
                },
                {
                        "role" : "userAdminAnyDatabase",
                        "db" : "admin"
                }
        ]
}

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