# SandCastle empty

**URL:** <https://community.cesium.com/t/sandcastle-empty/981>\
**Category:** CesiumJS\
**Created:** [February 6, 2014, 3:57am UTC](https://community.cesium.com/t/sandcastle-empty/981 "2014-02-06T03:57:30Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![BH1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/f17d59/32.png) [@BH1](https://community.cesium.com/u/BH1)\
**Post date:** [February 6, 2014, 3:57am UTC](https://community.cesium.com/t/sandcastle-empty/981/1 "2014-02-06T03:57:30Z")

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Hi all,

Newbie here.

I followed the tutorial “Cesium Up and Running”. After start web server by executing `node server.js` in the root directory in command line, I don’t get the prompt back. Is it supposed to be that way? How do I know the local web server is running?

When going to SandCastle, I don’t see anything in the Gallery.

Am I doing something wrong?

Thanks

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**Author:** ![Steven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/94ad74/32.png) [@Steven](https://community.cesium.com/u/Steven)\
**Post date:** [February 6, 2014, 10:34pm UTC](https://community.cesium.com/t/sandcastle-empty/981/2 "2014-02-06T22:34:24Z")

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There is no prompt.  
After you start the server, go to [http://localhost:8080](http://localhost:8080), if you can view this page, it means your server works correctly.

在 2014年2月5日星期三UTC-8下午7时57分30秒，en.y…@gmail.com写道：

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**Author:** ![BH1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/f17d59/32.png) [@BH1](https://community.cesium.com/u/BH1)\
**Post date:** [February 11, 2014, 3:46pm UTC](https://community.cesium.com/t/sandcastle-empty/981/3 "2014-02-11T15:46:39Z")

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Thank you. So it’s not the local web server that causes the sandcastle in [cesiumjs.org](http://cesiumjs.org) not to work.

I really want to see demos in SandCastle, but currently it’s still empty.

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**Author:** ![Ed\_Mackey](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/cesium/user_avatar/community.cesium.com/ed_mackey/32/2226_2.png) [@Ed\_Mackey](https://community.cesium.com/u/Ed_Mackey)\
**Post date:** [February 11, 2014, 6:42pm UTC](https://community.cesium.com/t/sandcastle-empty/981/4 "2014-02-11T18:42:47Z")

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Did you build?

cd cesium Tools/apache-ant-1.8.2/bin/ant build

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**Author:** ![BH1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/f17d59/32.png) [@BH1](https://community.cesium.com/u/BH1)\
**Post date:** [February 27, 2014, 3:55am UTC](https://community.cesium.com/t/sandcastle-empty/981/5 "2014-02-27T03:55:57Z")

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I am sorry but I am not sure what you mean. The sandCastle in [cesiumjs.org](http://cesiumjs.org) needs me to build something to work? However, I tried anyways.

C:\Users\admin\Documents\jetty-distribution-8.1.14.v20131031\jetty-distribution-8.1.14.v20131031\webapps\Cesium\Build\Cesium\>Tools/apache-ant-1.8.2/bin/ant build

‘Tools’ is not recognized as an internal or external command,operable program or batch file.

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**Author:** ![BH1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/f17d59/32.png) [@BH1](https://community.cesium.com/u/BH1)\
**Post date:** [February 27, 2014, 4:02am UTC](https://community.cesium.com/t/sandcastle-empty/981/6 "2014-02-27T04:02:21Z")

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One note I’d like to add is I can see the gallery from IE, but ofcourse it does not run. However, in Firefox, I don’t see anything. What I see is the message // Select a demo from the gallery to load, but there’s nothing showing in the Gallery for me to pick from.

Please help,

Thanks