# facing problems in setting cesium up

**URL:** <https://community.cesium.com/t/facing-problems-in-setting-cesium-up/3532>\
**Category:** CesiumJS\
**Created:** [January 6, 2016, 3:23pm UTC](https://community.cesium.com/t/facing-problems-in-setting-cesium-up/3532 "2016-01-06T15:23:32Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![Aaditya\_Thakkar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f475e1/32.png) [@Aaditya\_Thakkar](https://community.cesium.com/u/Aaditya_Thakkar)\
**Post date:** [January 6, 2016, 3:23pm UTC](https://community.cesium.com/t/facing-problems-in-setting-cesium-up/3532/1 "2016-01-06T15:23:32Z")

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Hello,  
I am facing some problems in setting cesium up. I have got and build the code. And also I followed instructions given on [http://cesiumjs.org/tutorials/cesium-up-and-running/](http://cesiumjs.org/tutorials/cesium-up-and-running/) . But when I start npm from my terminal and type this in browser [http://localhost:8080/Apps/HelloWorld.html](http://localhost:8080/Apps/HelloWorld.html) ,I am getting nothing but a blank page. And also when I open [http://localhost:8080/Build/Documentation/index.html](http://localhost:8080/Build/Documentation/index.html) I am getting the error showing below in the screenshot. I have searched a lot but I am not able to get where it is going wrong. Also on [http://localhost:8080/](http://localhost:8080/) Tests are not running. Is it possible that there is some problem with my npm configuration?

Please help me out with this.

Thanks,

Aaditya.

 ![Screenshot from 2016-01-06 20:24:43.png](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/cesium/original/1X/0563c2b2161b887f6dbf9ceda7838a3e71bd0e46.png)

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**Author:** ![Parthesh](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/cesium/user_avatar/community.cesium.com/parthesh/32/6572_2.png) [@Parthesh](https://community.cesium.com/u/Parthesh)\
**Post date:** [January 8, 2016, 7:14am UTC](https://community.cesium.com/t/facing-problems-in-setting-cesium-up/3532/2 "2016-01-08T07:14:34Z")

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Hi Aaditya,

I will suggest you to use a different server like Apache instead of Nodejs, since there are only limited things that you can do with Nodejs.

Here is what you can do:

– Install Xampp(includes Apache, MySQL, FileZilla, Tomcat although you will need only Apache)

– Assign default port (8080) for Apache server

– Put your Cesium folder(unzipped) in “htdocs” folder in Xampp installation directory

– And start your Apache server using Xampp control panel

– Type the url: “localhost://Path/to/your/html page” in the browser

Regards,

Parthesh.

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**Author:** ![Aaditya\_Thakkar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f475e1/32.png) [@Aaditya\_Thakkar](https://community.cesium.com/u/Aaditya_Thakkar)\
**Post date:** [January 8, 2016, 10:00am UTC](https://community.cesium.com/t/facing-problems-in-setting-cesium-up/3532/3 "2016-01-08T10:00:25Z")

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Thanks a lot…it worked…

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**Author:** ![Lukas\_Mackevicius](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/51bf81/32.png) [@Lukas\_Mackevicius](https://community.cesium.com/u/Lukas_Mackevicius)\
**Post date:** [July 22, 2019, 10:08pm UTC](https://community.cesium.com/t/facing-problems-in-setting-cesium-up/3532/4 "2019-07-22T22:08:20Z")

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hey, Does installing Cesium this way gives you ability to connect to MySQL easier?

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**Author:** ![omar](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/cesium/user_avatar/community.cesium.com/omar/32/1999_2.png) [@omar](https://community.cesium.com/u/omar)\
**Post date:** [July 23, 2019, 2:11am UTC](https://community.cesium.com/t/facing-problems-in-setting-cesium-up/3532/5 "2019-07-23T02:11:33Z")

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I would recommend following the official install instructions here:

> **[Downloads | cesium.com](https://cesium.com/downloads/)**
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> Cesium is geospatial. Use Cesium ion's simple workflow to create 3D maps of your geospatial data for visualization, analysis, and sharing. For developers, use the open-source CesiumJS library to create custom 3D mapping apps.

Since setting up with npm allows you to build the project correctly. You can have a MySQL or other services running on different ports, so this should be unrelated to your CesiumJS setup.