No session secret provided, please set `secret` for apostrophe-express module

[Jermaine Oppong]

Hello all,

I am in the process of getting apostrophe to run by following the instructions detailed here: 

http://apostrophenow.org/tutorials/getting-started/creating-your-first-project.html

I have installed the cli tool and created my first project. However running 'node app.js' throws this exception:

WARNING: No session secret provided, please set `secret` for apostrophe-express module in app.js

fs.js:897

  return binding.symlink(preprocessSymlinkDestination(target, type, path),

                 ^

Error: EPERM: operation not permitted, symlink 'C:\Users\admin\Desktop\Projects\apos-project\node_modules\apostrophe\lib\modules\apostrophe-assets\public' -> 'C:\Users\admin\Desktop\Projects\apos-project\public\modules\apostrophe-assets'

    at Error (native)

    at Object.fs.symlinkSync (fs.js:897:18)

    at C:\Users\admin\Desktop\Projects\apos-project\node_modules\apostrophe\lib\modules\apostrophe-assets\index.js:403:14

    at C:\Users\admin\Desktop\Projects\apos-project\node_modules\lodash\index.js:3073:15

    at baseForOwn (C:\Users\admin\Desktop\Projects\apos-project\node_modules\lodash\index.js:2046:14)

    at C:\Users\admin\Desktop\Projects\apos-project\node_modules\lodash\index.js:3043:18

    at Function.<anonymous> (C:\Users\admin\Desktop\Projects\apos-project\node_modules\lodash\index.js:3346:13)

    at self.symlinkModules (C:\Users\admin\Desktop\Projects\apos-project\node_modules\apostrophe\lib\modules\apostrophe-assets\index.js:384:9)

    at C:\Users\admin\Desktop\Projects\apos-project\node_modules\async\lib\async.js:718:13

    at iterate (C:\Users\admin\Desktop\Projects\apos-project\node_modules\async\lib\async.js:262:13)

    at async.forEachOfSeries.async.eachOfSeries (C:\Users\admin\Desktop\Projects\apos-project\node_modules\async\lib\async.js:281:9)

    at _parallel (C:\Users\admin\Desktop\Projects\apos-project\node_modules\async\lib\async.js:717:9)

    at Object.async.series (C:\Users\admin\Desktop\Projects\apos-project\node_modules\async\lib\async.js:739:9)

    at Object.self.afterInit (C:\Users\admin\Desktop\Projects\apos-project\node_modules\apostrophe\lib\modules\apostrophe-assets\index.js:348:20)

    at C:\Users\admin\Desktop\Projects\apos-project\node_modules\apostrophe\index.js:91:25

    at C:\Users\admin\Desktop\Projects\apos-project\node_modules\async\lib\async.js:181:20

I attempted to add configuration for apostrophe-express by adding the code below to the app.js config object, but still not working:

var apos = require('apostrophe')({
    //...
    modules: {
        //...
        'apostrophe-express': {

              secret: 'secret password'
        }
    }

});

I also tried:

var apos = require('apostrophe')({
    //...
    secret: 'secret password'

});

I am investigating ApostropheCMS as a possible content management solution for the company I work at. 

Any help would be really appreciated.

Many thanks in advance.

[Tom Boutell]

Hi Jermaine,

The secret thing is a red herring here. What's really clobbering you
is that we're trying to make symbolic links on Windows and of course
we can't (well, not without running as admin, which you don't want us
to do).

In A2 0.5 we worked through this and figured out we should recursively
copy the asset folders (public folders) rather than symlinking them on
Windows. We should do that again.

Most likely we'll make the distinction in the symlinkModules method of
apostrophe-assets/index.js, or possibly we'll detect the difference
and call a separate method so the name isn't misleading.

Running node as admin is a good but temporary workaround.

Please open a github issue so you can know when we've resolved this
for 2.0. You can assign it to boutell.

(If your production environment is Linux this won't be an issue for you there.)

Thanks!

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[Tom Boutell]

As for the secret thing:

modules: {

'apostrophe-express': {

session: {

secret: 'yoursecrethere'

}

}
}

So there's one more level. Which we should clarify in the warning
message. But again, it's not what's preventing you from getting
airborne.