Issue with grunt server task

[micjamking]

After doing a fresh install via npm cache clean && npm install -g yo grunt-cli bower and creating a new webapp project using yo webapp, I cannot get grunt server to load the preview.

I receive no errors in the console; here is the output when running grunt server:

Running "server" task

Running "clean:server" (clean) task
Cleaning ".tmp"...OK

Running "concurrent:server" (concurrent) task

    Running "coffee:dist" (coffee) task
    File .tmp/scripts/hello.js created.

    Done, without errors.

    Running "compass:server" (compass) task

    Done, without errors.

Running "connect:livereload" (connect) task
Starting connect web server on localhost:9000.

Running "open:server" (open) task

Running "watch" task
Waiting...

...however, my browser (Chrome Canary 29.0) simply hangs trying to load http://localhost:9000, and I receive the following error after a timeout: Unable to load the webpage because the server sent no data.
Error code: ERR_EMPTY_RESPONSE

I'm able to run all other grunt tasks, without error, just launching the server seems to be the issue. I've also tried changing port number, which makes no difference, I still receive the same error.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks

[AndrewGleason]

I too am having this issue, any help would be greatly appreciated!

[mason-stewart]

Yep, running into the same issue here too.

[fspillner]

Same issue here! But it's strange: it works with curl ...

[fspillner]

I updated the version of connect-livereload to ~0.2 and it fixes the problem :)

[addyosmani]

@micjamking can you let us know if updating to the above version of connect-livereload works for you too?

[AndrewGleason]

npm install connect-livereload in the webapp folder worked for me. all fixed!

[micjamking]

I can confirm running npm install connect-livereload in the webapp folder gets the grunt server task to launch. Thanks @APGleason & everyone for your help.

However, grunt server doesnt seem to pick up the main.scss file or changes within it (ie, I receive a 404 for http://localhost:9000/styles/main.css). Running grunt server builds the .tmp directory, but it only contains scripts, not styles. Making a change to the main.scss file outputs the following in the console:

Running "watch" task
Waiting...OK
>> File "app/styles/main.scss" changed.


Running "compass:server" (compass) task
Nothing to compile. If you're trying to start a new project, you have left off the directory argument.
Run "compass -h" to get help.

Running "watch" task
Completed in 0.639s at Tue Jun 18 2013 07:15:53 GMT-1000 (HST) - Waiting...

This also affects the grunt task, because there is no files in the .tmp directory to compile down to the dist directory, so my app ends up style-less.

[addyosmani]

I've bumped the version of connect-livereload being used to 0.2.0 for generator-webapp. Will test further to see if I can repro the server issues described.

[lukasz-zak]

@micjamking Are you fix this problem? Because I am in the same situation like you.

[lukasz-zak]

Ok I found solution.
If path with your project includind "[" or "]" then this issues appear.

I change my path and now all is fine.

[micjamking]

@lukasz-zak Actually, that was my same issue :) Glad you figured it out!

[AutoSponge]

I spent about 2 hours chasing a myriad of different "possible" solutions. This did the trick.

The most frustrating part: yesterday everything worked fine. After a reboot, nothing but errors.

[lozandier]

I'm having the same issue now on Windows; I have connect-livereload 0.4 running and it simply hang on running "concurrent:serve"

[gpfiel]

I tryed to npm install connect-livereload and not work, anyone knows what can i do?

[DerekHoffman]

Worst part for me is that I am getting no error and the window is just not showing up. Do I need to do something in my IIS?

Also I moved my files into TFS and used Yeoman to actually build the project originally. (got a new computer for work)

I installed Node.js NPM install / Bower / and grunt am I missing something?

[heshantha]

set PATH=C:\Ruby200-x64\bin;%PATH%

[rodsilver83]

I had this error when I run $grunt serve

Running "serve" task

Running "clean:server" (clean) task

1 path cleaned.

Running "wiredep:app" (wiredep) task

Running "wiredep:test" (wiredep) task

Running "wiredep:sass" (wiredep) task

Running "concurrent:server" (concurrent) task
Warning: Use --force to continue.

    Aborted due to warnings.

-The problem is that, the log has no warnings, so when I use, grunt serve --force, I got the opportunity to see the full task log, and I see that in my case I have a sintax problem in one of my scss, files, this compilation error couses the serve task to not run properly, I fixed my scss files and that worked for me.