Model creation error and unable to access application about lumber

[Tapppi]

@JustJasper the "hang" you are describing is the actual express server just running and waiting for connections. If you open another terminal on the same machine after leaving the node server on and curl http://localhost:3000 you will get connected, but probably encounter a 404 as lumber doesn't serve anything in root by default.

To use the dashboard, open the link given by the command (http://app.forestadmin.com) and login to see the project you created and connect to it. To connect you will need to configure access to the node server running. This will be dependant on your network. If you had the server running on localhost, it would be as easy as pointing the dashboard to http://localhost:3000, but since you seem to be running on a VPS of some sort, you will probably need to open a port to the liana (the server generated by lumber that servers data to your admin interface) and connect to it by ip or url (if you have a dns entry pointing to the ip of the VPS), e.g. http://my-vps.my-domain.com:3000 or something.

[SeyZ]

Hey @JustJasper Can you tell me the version of node installed?

[JustJasper]

Hi @SeyZ, I'm running Node 4.2.6 on Ubuntu 16.04.

[SeyZ]

Hey @JustJasper It seems one of our generates model in the models directory has a syntax error :( Do you know which one?

[JustJasper]

Ah, that makes sense - I had a depreciated table in my database which had asterisks in the field name (poor form, I know). I have corrected that (removed the offending fields from the table), and no longer get the 'model creation error', however still unable to connect (server doesn't appear to be running) even after rerunning the node ./bin/www command. (my SSH connection also hangs at this point).

As this appears to be a slightly different issue, please let me know if I should close this issue and open another.

Apologies if I'm doing something stupid - I'm fairly new at this!

[SeyZ]

Hey @JustJasper what do you mean by 'My SSH connection also hangs at this point` ?

[JustJasper]

Apologies if unclear - when I run the node ./bin/www command, I get the 🌳 Open your admin UI: http://app.forestadmin.com 🌳 message, however, the process appears to 'hang' and I'm forced to Ctrl+C to get back to my command line prompt.