confluence-helloworld-addon: ./ngrok: ????: not found

[Steve Hanov]

I am trying to follow the Getting started tutorial.

I am using Ubuntu 18.04. The first problem was that "npm install" failed until I reverted to node version 8.0.

The problem now is that "npm start" fails due to an ngrok issue.

I can run ngrok manually on the machine, but it seems to be using the built-in version installed by npm. If I run it manually, the service is accessible but, because the script already failed, plugin is not automatically registered with the server.

smhanov@atlas:~/confluence-helloworld-addon$ npm start

> helloworld-addon@0.0.1 start /home/smhanov/confluence-helloworld-addon
> node app.js

Watching atlassian-connect.json for changes
Initialized memory storage adapter
Add-on server running at http://atlas:3000
Failed to establish local tunnel
err = Error: ./ngrok: 1: ./ngrok: ����
�: not found
./ngrok: 2: ./ngrok: Syntax error: word unexpected (expecting ")")

Error: ./ngrok: 1: ./ngrok: ����
�: not found
./ngrok: 2: ./ngrok: Syntax error: word unexpected (expecting ")")

Error: ./ngrok: 1: ./ngrok: ����
�: not found
./ngrok: 2: ./ngrok: Syntax error: word unexpected (expecting ")")

    at Socket.<anonymous> (/home/smhanov/confluence-helloworld-addon/node_modules/ngrok/index.js:135:8)
    at emitOne (events.js:115:13)
    at Socket.emit (events.js:210:7)
    at addChunk (_stream_readable.js:250:12)
    at readableAddChunk (_stream_readable.js:237:11)
    at Socket.Readable.push (_stream_readable.js:195:10)
    at Pipe.onread (net.js:586:20)
Unhandled error: Error: ./ngrok: 1: ./ngrok: ����
�: not found
./ngrok: 2: ./ngrok: Syntax error: word unexpected (expecting ")")

    at Socket.<anonymous> (/home/smhanov/confluence-helloworld-addon/node_modules/ngrok/index.js:135:8)
    at emitOne (events.js:115:13)
    at Socket.emit (events.js:210:7)
    at addChunk (_stream_readable.js:250:12)
    at readableAddChunk (_stream_readable.js:237:11)
    at Socket.Readable.push (_stream_readable.js:195:10)
    at Pipe.onread (net.js:586:20)

[Steve Hanov]

After writing this, I tried reverting to node 4.5.0 as suggested by the tutorial itself, and it suddenly started working!