Parse-Dashboard - server not reachable unable to connect to server

Question

I am trying to install Parse-Server and Parse-Dashboard in Google Cloud (Debian/Jesse). I have already installed on both Windows (locally) and on Heroku and everything worked fine.

My configuration is the following:

• Linux Debian 3.16.43-2
• Node JS 7.10
• Mlab
• Firewall Ports are open

Installed both Parse-Server and Dashboard via npm. I think Parse-Server is running fine since I was able to check that MLab database was written with Parse-Server tables (_SCHEMA, etc).

My Parse Dashboard config file is the following:

     {
      "apps": [
        {
          "serverURL": "http://localhost:1337/parse",
          "appId": "1",
          "masterKey": "654321",
          "appName": "AppName",
          "production": "true"
        }
      ],
      "users": [
        {
          "user":"username",
          "pass":"password"
        }
      ]
    }

I run parse-server with this command and it shows the following status:

parse-server --appId 1 --masterKey 654321 --databaseURI mongodb://dbAdmin:[email protected]:Omitted/Omitted --serverURL http://127.0.0.0.1/ --port 1337 --appName AppName

appId: 1
masterKey: ***REDACTED***
port: 1337
host: 0.0.0.0
databaseURI: mongodb://dbAdmin:[email protected]:Omitted/Omitted
serverURL: http://127.0.0.0.1/
mountPath: /parse
appName: AppName
maxUploadSize: 20mb
userSensitiveFields: ["email"]

I run parse-dashboard with this command and it shows the following status:

parse-dashboard --config /usr/local/lib/node_modules/parse-dashboard/Parse-Dashboard/parse-dashboard-config.mine.json  --allowInsecureHTTP

The dashboard is now available at http://0.0.0.0:4040/

I am able to log into Dashboard but it keeps saying: server not reachable unable to connect to server.

I have tried the following list of fixes:

• Changed serverURL to localhost or to 127.0.0.1
• Added /parse at the end of the address
• Changed serverURL port to 1333
• Checked APP ID, APP Masterkey and APP Name
• Opened firewall ports
• Stopped using configuration file

Nothing solves this problem. If anyone has any suggestion, I would very be pleased to try.

Thanks in Advance. Regards, James P

Answer 1

Have you started mongodb?

sudo service

Did you start parse-server before Parse-Dashboard? In your project folder

npm start

On another terminal in your project folder start Parse-Dashboard

Parse-dashboard --config parse-dashboard-config.json

Answer 2

Problem solved. Probably this is not the correct solution, but at least it worked.

The serverURL: http://127.0.0.0.1/ or serverURL: http://localhost/ did not work for me. I have changed both parse-server and parse-dashboard to an external IP for (35.x.x.x, in my case).

Answer 3

I faced the same problem.

Configuration:

Installed mongodb, parse-server & parse-dashboard, all 3 on separate docker instances. Used a 4th docker instance with apache2 to make it work as a reverse proxy.

Mistake:

Pointed subdomain parse-dashboard.ABC.com to the parse-dashboard, but did not point parse-server to any subdomain. The most important part here is that parse-dashboard uses JavaScript to access app on parse-server, so this resulted in a CORS error.

Solution:

I pointed parse.ABC.com to parse-server.

Hope this helps someone.