Difficulty to run it without Docker

[mirabellette]

Hello everyone,

In order to manage by my own the Firefox Authentication, I am installing the four micro services required to do it.:

• fxa-auth-db-mysql -> authdb.example.com
• fxa-auth-server -> auth.example.com
• fxa-content-server -> content.example.com
• fxa-oauth-server -> oauth.example.com
• fxa-profile-server -> profile.example.com

Moreover, I do not want to use Docker because I really want to understand how it works. I was able to configure most of them except fxa-content-server.

This is the process I followed:

• git clone https://github.com/mozilla/fxa-content-server.git
• chown firefox:firefox -R fxa-content-server
• cd /opt/fxa-content-server
• sudo -u firefox npm install --production
• sudo -u firefox npm install bluebird
• sudo -u firefox npm run build-production
• sudo -u firefox NODE_ENV=production npm start

However, I got two errors I was not able to solve when I connect to content.example.com.

The first one is about static css. Even if I specificy in server/config/production.json to load "static_directory": "dist" and "page_template_subdirectory": "dist" ; it is loaded from app directory.
That means some css and bundle.js is missing. How to fix that?

The second error I got is about geodb, I do not understand why but I got no fetch data. I replaced

• "public_url":
• "oauth_url":
• "profile_url":
• "profile_images_url": "I let the original one for this one"

Do you have some idea about that?

Thank you for your help,
Best regards,
Mirabellette

[shane-tomlinson]

Hi @mirabellette, in the last step where you do NODE_ENV=production npm start, try running npm run start-production. The start-production script points to the correct config files to load the JS & CSS from dist.

The geodb error happens often if you are connecting to a local server or from a private IP address, e.g., localhost, 127.0.0.1, 192.168.., etc. Since those are private IP addresses the DB won't have geo information about them.

[vladikoff]

NODE_ENV=production npm start 👍