I am using generator-angular-fullstack. On my local machine its working fine, I run
grunt serve
it starts server but in VPS it's failing
Warning: Command failed: xdg-open: no method available for opening 'http://localhost:9000'
and I have already installed xdg-utils
$ sudo apt-get install xdg-utils
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
xdg-utils is already the newest version.
Can any one explain me what I am doing wrong?
Have you tried configuring the xdg-open handlers?
Also, have you ensured you have a browser installed on your server? Installing a new browser with apt-get install <browser> should automatically make xdg-open aware of it. However, your setup may not have done this depending on the order that your browser/xdg-utils were installed.
To make things sane again requires running xdg-settings.
To set an http:// handler to your preferred browser (which on a headless server is likely to be w3m, lynx or elinks), do the following:
xdg-settings set default-web-browser w3m.desktop
To verify, you can run xdg-open https://stackoverflow.com/questions/24683221 and you should see your answer in w3m.
If you don't have w3m available, install it with sudo apt-get install w3m
You may wish to see other available handlers by running xdg-settings --list, which on my system, outputs the following:
Known properties:
default-url-scheme-handler Default handler for URL scheme
default-web-browser Default web browser
EDIT:
It turns out that some old systems (ubuntu 10.04) don't have xdg-settings, and that the update-alternatives command should automatically configure xdg-open. Like so:
sudo update-alternatives --config www-browser
I'm not an expert with xdg-open but I will give this a try. It looks like there is a problem with your package database. Also, showing the gruntfile would make things easier.
Here are the steps to follow:
Identify all xdg-open's.
$ type -a xdg-open
xdg-open is /usr/bin/xdg-open
Find out which packages they're a part of.
$ dpkg -S /usr/bin/xdg-open
xdg-utils: /usr/bin/xdg-open
You'll want to either repeat the above dpkg -S .. for each match returned by type -a or use this dpkg -S .. search instead. I would do each, one at a time.
$ dpkg -S xdg-open
xdg-utils: /usr/bin/xdg-open
xdg-utils: /usr/share/man/man1/xdg-open.1.gz
Reinstalling xdg-utils. If you'd like to refresh this package's installation do this:
$ sudo apt-get install --reinstall xdg-utils
I hope this helps!
Are you using graphical environment? If you are using "raspberry" and you are connecting via ssh and you have no "grunt" configured to use PhantomJS, "Grunt" can not perform the task. You have to force him to continue to "serve --force grunt" or set the "Gruntfile.js"
