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lorenwest / monitor-dashboard

Dashboards for the Node.js monitor project
https://lorenwest.github.com/monitor-dashboard
MIT License
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Change config file location? #31

Closed applmak closed 9 years ago

applmak commented 9 years ago

I'd like to use this library, but I'm stymied as to how to change the config file location. I've tried:

NODE_CONFIG_DIR=../../config node monitor.js

where I've placed a new default.js, but the monitoring app still reads from ./config/. How do I change the config file location?

lorenwest commented 9 years ago

Try using a direct path in your NODE_CONFIG_DIR vs. a relative path. That's likely to solve the problem of going to the wrong directory.

applmak commented 9 years ago

$PROJECT/config/default.js:

module.exports = { ... // Dashboard application configurations Dashboard: { // The port to listen on for application traffic port:4201, ... };

Now I execute: $ cd $PROJECT/node_modules/monitor-dashboard && NODE_CONFIG_DIR=$PROJECT/config node monitor.js

I see:

Now showing at http://localhost:4200/

What am I doing wrong?

On Fri, Aug 28, 2015 at 12:57 PM, Loren West notifications@github.com wrote:

Try using a direct path in your NODE_CONFIG_DIR vs. a relative path. That's likely to solve the problem of going to the wrong directory.

— Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub https://github.com/lorenwest/monitor-dashboard/issues/31#issuecomment-135846571 .

applmak commented 9 years ago

I figured this out:

1) The default.js that is checked-in has skewed from the actual Backbone Model defaults. Now, port and sitedbpath are under Monitor.

2) Adding monitor-dashboard to my package.json caused the dashboard to attempt to load my server, which failed due to lack of the correct configuration. I'll need to figure out a different way to manage this dep, I suppose.