What's missing from your report is your operating system. Linux? Which flavor? Mac? Or ??
I run node and node-like products on xubuntu, and have never had to run as root. But maybe other systems are fussier? On Friday, May 8, 2020 at 11:00:21 PM UTC-7, Andy Redfern wrote: > > Folks, > > Started using TiddlyWiki around four weeks ago. I love the friendliness of > the community and the product itself. As a long time developer, the ability > to tweak and tinker is very attractive. I can create the work flow I want. > > Started running in a single file mode, added in using TiddlyDesktop and > then in an effort to make it work with my phone too I switched to the > NodeJS. Read a couple of the guides to using NodeJS and TiddlyWiki, and I > was off. > > Then on Friday night disaster struck and I lost 2 weeks of data – > everything since I had switched to NodeJS. So after a day sobbing quietly > in the corner this is my effort to figure out where I went wrong with my > set up so you too don’t make the mistake I do. > > So following this guide > https://www.npmjs.com/package/tiddlywiki > > and everything worked as expected apart from > tiddlywiki mynewwiki --init server > > which errored: > Error: Error creating directory 'testlife' > > Doh! Permissions I thought. So added in Sudo > sudo tiddlywiki mynewwiki --init server > > Created fine and started > tiddlywiki mynewwiki --init server > > However it errored too: > Sync error while processing save of '$:/StoryList': Error: ENOENT: no such > file or directory, open > '/var/www/html/..fullpath../tiddlers/$__StoryList.tid' > > Ah tiddlers folder not created – manually created and I was off. > > All worked as expected except I get having to start tiddlywiki every time > my Putty session ended. Not what I wanted. > Read around nodejs advice sites and people suggest using forever. > So: > forever start --spinSleepTime 10000 /usr/local/bin/tiddlywiki > /var/www/html/..fullpath../mynewwiki --listen host=0.0.0.0 username=**** > password=**** > > Everything works as I am expecting. > > And yet I have made an error – I created the Tiddler folder using Root as > I used sudo – and the new folder doesn’t have write permissions for the > process running in with forever. Without forever it has all the > permissions it needs, but with forever it doesn’t. > > So everything looked fine – but actually Tiddlywiki was syncing to the > server fine but all my data was in memory. So when after 2 weeks I stopped > the process to make some tweaks ready for a proposed PR on the core code, I > lost everything. <FX: SOUND OF HEAD BANGING ON TABLE> > > > So in summary - What should I have done differently to avoid the > permissions based errors in the first place? > > Tiddlywiki --init failed – so I used sudo – what should I have done? > > Tiddlywiki --init failed to create tiddlers sub folder – permissions? > > Forever runs as the correct user but without the permissions. I solved the > problem by giving the folder 777 full write permissions, but what should I > have done? > > Final thought. The permissions error in writing data to the server drive > surfaced no errors in TW – why? Shouldn’t it have alerted me that no data > was being saved. The only place I could find the error was in the difficult > to interpret forever logs which I was scouring to figure where I had gone > wrong. > > Anyway, sorry for the long read but I hope my experience can help others > avoid the same issue and potentially see TW amended to report when it can’t > save tiddlers to the server drive. > > Andy > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to tiddlywiki+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/cb1a24f4-ada7-4a03-a3f3-27a72763d87a%40googlegroups.com.
