How to start Kong?

Question

I am getting following error, when I tried to start Kong in Ubuntu

kong start [-c /path/to/kong.conf]
prefix directory /usr/local/kong not found, trying to create it
2017/11/05 21:11:41 [warn] ulimit is currently set to "1024". For better performance set it to at least "4096" using "ulimit -n"
Error: /usr/local/share/lua/5.1/pgmoon/init.lua:271: missing password, required for connect

Am I missing anything?

Answer 1

on your psql run the following. CREATE USER kong; CREATE DATABASE kong OWNER kong; ALTER USER kong WITH PASSWORD 'password';

create a kong.config with following content. pg_user = kong pg_password = password

Run the migration and start kong (might require sudo) $ kong migrations up -c kong.config $ kong start -c kong.config

Answer 2

your command is right, you just have to remove the "[" from the commands. That's an indication of optional argument in the kong-documentaion. So the right command would just be:

kong start -c /path/to/your/kong.conf

Make sure to have updated and uncommented out the following fields in the kong.conf beforehand:

database = postgres (as in your case)
pg_host = your_host_address (127.0.0.1 by default)
pg_port = your_psql_port_address (5432 by default)
pg_user = your_psql_db_user (kong as per documentation of kong)
pg_password = your_psql_db_user's_password
pg_database = your_db_for_kong (kong as per documentation of kong)

If the proposed solution helped you, kindly close the question by accepting it as the answer. Thanks!

Answer 3

I have the same error, probably that your postgresql version is too old :

kong start -c kong.conf Error: [postgres error] Kong requires PostgreSQL 9.5 or greater (currently using 9.2)