Install Issues

[gazzastone]

I have successfully installed the badgegit-api however on starting openbadges-badgekit I get the following error

10:49:12 web.1 | started with pid 6600 10:49:13 web.1 | 10:49:13 web.1 | undefined:19 10:49:13 web.1 | return "navigator.id.watch({ 10:49:13 web.1 | \n loggedInUser: " + obj.loggedInUser + ", 10:49:13 web.1 | \n 10:49:13 web.1 | ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ 10:49:13 web.1 | exited with code 8 10:49:13 system | sending SIGKILL to all processes 10:49:13 | SyntaxError: Unexpected token ILLEGAL

any help greatly appreciated

[SueSmith]

Not honestly sure but it may be worth checking the ACCESS_LIST variable in your config, depending on your system it may be necessary to escape various characters.. see this page https://github.com/mozilla/openbadges-badgekit/wiki/Troubleshooting-BadgeKit#check-your-access-list-syntax

[gazzastone]

Unfortunately made no difference I added debug=true to my env file which generates the following which hopefully may help somebody

11:33:06 web.1 | started with pid 4620 11:33:07 web.1 | 11:33:07 web.1 | undefined:19 11:33:07 web.1 | return "navigator.id.watch({ 11:33:07 web.1 | \n loggedInUser: " + obj.loggedInUser + ", 11:33:07 web.1 | \n 11:33:07 web.1 | ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ 11:33:07 web.1 | SyntaxError: Unexpected token ILLEGAL 11:33:07 web.1 | at Object.Function () 11:33:07 web.1 | at Function.compile (C:\Badgekit\openbadges-badgekit\node_ modules\express-persona-observer\node_modules\minstache\index.js:79:10) 11:33:07 web.1 | at Object. (C:\Badgekit\openbadges-badgekit\nod e_modules\express-persona-observer\index.js:6:25) 11:33:07 web.1 | at Module._compile (module.js:456:26) 11:33:07 web.1 | at Object.Module._extensions..js (module.js:474:10) 11:33:07 web.1 | at Module.load (module.js:356:32) 11:33:07 web.1 | at Function.Module._load (module.js:312:12) 11:33:07 web.1 | at Module.require (module.js:364:17) 11:33:07 web.1 | at require (module.js:380:17) 11:33:07 web.1 | at Object. (C:\Badgekit\openbadges-badgekit\app \index.js:20:17) 11:33:07 web.1 | exited with code 8 11:33:07 system | sending SIGKILL to all processes

although this is a windows install attempt I get exactly the same error on my Ubuntu box

[SueSmith]

This thread on the Google Dev Group may be relevant: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/openbadges-dev/95o1Ekn3PjM

[gazzastone]

Yes I found that post earlier and it did not make any difference

[gazzastone]

Hi Sue followed https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/openbadges-dev/95o1Ekn3PjM again and managed to get a bit further on a start then got the following warning .. connect.multipart() will be removed in connect 3.0 this is only supposed to be a warning message but the system exited with an error 8

I then modified index.js removed the line app.use(express.bodyParser()); and added the following 2 lines app.use(express.json()); app.use(express.urlencoded());

Finally application started listening on port 3000 :-)

Navigated to http://localhost:3000 and managed to logon using chrome I then clicked on Start to create a new template.. nothing happened and noticed this error on the badgekit-api instance 09:55:37 web.1 | {"name":"badgekit-api","hostname":"TheHubster","pid":7020,"level":40,"code":"ResourceNotFound","model":"system","field":"slug","value":"\"badgekit\"","msg":"","time":"2014-07-02T08:55:37.798Z","v":0}

And ideas on this one please

[SueSmith]

Sounds like either the API and BadgeKit aren't talking to one another or you don't have an entry in your API systems table - it's in this section of the self-hosting guide: https://github.com/mozilla/openbadges-badgekit/wiki/BadgeKit-Self-Hosting-Guide#badgekit-api-database

..and this section of the troubleshooting guide: https://github.com/mozilla/openbadges-badgekit/wiki/Troubleshooting-BadgeKit#make-sure-you-have-a-system-in-your-badgekit-api-database

e.g.

INSERT INTO systems (slug, name, url) VALUES ('badgekit', 'Your System', 'http://localhost:3000');

[gazzastone]

Thanks for that I did have an entry but had the wrong name, having a few problems some of the URL's not having the http://xxxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:3000/ and thereby resulting 404 error, but other then that it is starting to come together, now all I need to do is work out how to use it

[timothyfcook]

I also couldn't get the Local install to work. I set it up on Heroku using the guide, but just get 404s after I try to log in. http://saxifrage-badgekit.herokuapp.com/

[threeqube]

@timothyfcook can you provide a bit more details on how you set up your environment?

[ducnguyen9988]

I get a weird error

[cmcavoy]

What version of Node are you using?

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[dlampson]

Hope this isn't hijacking the thread, but I'm having enough similar problems to think not...

I can confirm the need to hack the login.js file as others have observed (apparently a Windoze peculiarity). I've also had to mod the config AccessList to get the service to start (I'm using ["^xyz@@acord.org$"] but I have no idea if this causes other problems once the service is running).

Regardless of all of the above, the service still will not run--it starts, but then throws up with a code 8 and little more.

With a current BadgeKit clone from git, the server won't start. Debugging shows that this line in the index.js file fails:

app.use(express.bodyParser());

I tried replacing it with these 2 lines as others on this thread have suggested:

app.use(express.json()); app.use(express.urlencoded());

and I can get the server to start on a custom port (4000 my choice, and yes, I have the systems table row and the config.json vars set to 4000).

In Chrome, I can navigate to localhost:4000 and login to badgekit. However, any server page action results in the friendly "Something went wrong in our Server" spash page.

It seems rather clear from here:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/24330014/bodyparser-is-deprecated-express-4

That bodyParser() has been deprecated in Express 4. I'm running Express 4.9.0 (verified using "npm info express version"). Other versions: node 0.10.31, Python 2x (this is really unfortunate, as I need 3x for other things), latest Heruko Toolbelt and MySQL 5.6 Community.

So far, I've concluded that: 1) The latest Badgekit source from Github has a deprecated method relative to current stable Express. It seems to me this should get fixed ASAP.

2) An attempt to replace the deprecated method with 2 new ones at least allows the script to complete (the service listens on the assigned port), but it's not clear to me (I'm not a node.js jockey) that this hack is not itself the source of more mischief that I'm new experiencing.

Any suggestions as to how to resolve the problem? Thx.

[dlampson]

This may be related to the above--forgot to include it. localhost:4000 on FF produces a strange mix of missing static content and mangled URLs (e.g., http://localhost:4000/\settings).

[gkastner]

Hi! I face the same problem than dlampson. Is there any approach known how to fix this issue?

Thank you