trouble installing

[7yl4r]

Perhaps I'm being a bit of a doofus, but I wasn't able to get this working. Is this platform-specific? My few issues unaddressed by the install instructions:

1. npm install yields "MSBUILD error MSB3428" - Could not load the Visual C++ component "VCBuild.exe"
2. once I got past that, and ignored all the warnings, node web.js gives me Error db == null - failed to connect to localhost:27017. Should I have started up mongod?

Anyway, like I said, I'm a doofus and just messing with this while distracted by other things, but a bit more work on the install instructions might save future doofuses hours of headaches.

[kelsey-sorrels]

Hi,
Can you relate how you solved #1. We can document it an add it to the installation notes.
2. Yes mongo is required to run. Localhost is the default host, but it can be configured to point to a remote host via setting an environment variable (for the name of the variable, you'll probably have to look at the source, sorry)