Any instructions for quickstart on Amazon EC2?

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Following the standard local instructions for Ubuntu, I’m unable to connect anything to port 3000 on my instance (yes, the port is open).

I’m using the following setup command :
sudo /opt/tyk-dashboard/install/setup.sh --listenport=3000 --redishost=localhost --redisport=6379 --mongo=mongodb://127.0.0.1/tyk_analytics --tyk_api_hostname=$HOSTNAME --tyk_node_hostname=http://localhost --tyk_node_port=8080 --portal_root=/portal --domain=“XXX.compute-1.amazonaws.com”

where HOSTNAME=ip-xxx-31-0-xxx

Any help will be greatly appreciated.

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Sorry to answer myself, but it seems there is a gap in the documentation.
All I had to do was start the Mongodb server, and suddenly I see the Tyk dashboard appearing.
There were no logs etc indicating any issue connecting to MongoDB.

None of the instructions here : https://tyk.io/docs/get-started/with-tyk-on-premise/installation/on-ubuntu/dashboard/ mention anything about STARTING MongoDB before proceeding…

:frowning:

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On Ubuntu, services like MongoDB used to be installed and started by default, so this is news to us :slight_smile:

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There are various flavours of Mongo for Ubuntu - the one your instructions installs does not start anything by default. I think this was changed quite a while ago to reduce the unsecured default installs, and also due to introduction of the dreaded systemd on Ubuntu.

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We have now added starting the MongoDB service as a pre-requisite before configuring the Dashboard in https://tyk.io/docs/get-started/with-tyk-on-premise/installation/on-ubuntu/dashboard/

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