"shopify node serve" Command Problem

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Hi, I’m trying out the Shopify CLI. I’m going through this tutorial. I’m using Windows 10.

Running “shopify node create” scaffolds the new project but when I run “shopify node serve” I get this error:

√ curl @ C:/WINDOWS/System32/curl.EXE
√ tar @ C:/Rtools/bin/tar.EXE
- Installing ngrok...
X System call failed: tar -xf C:/[...]/shopify/ngrok.zip

(I inserted the “[..]” to hide personal info in the folder name)

The “…/shopify/ngrok.zip” DOES exist. I tried deleting it and running “shopify node serve” again but same thing happens.

Based on this. I think “shopify node serve” is downloading a zip – thinking I’m on MAC – and then since I’m on Windows, it tries to tar(untar?) the zip file.

Am I missing something or should I report a bug?

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Hey @bdowling

Thanks very much for raising this! Yes - sounds like it could be one for the CLI team to run their ruse over.

By all means, feel free to log an issue in the following repository. Much obliged!

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Hi, thanks for the reply. In case someone has a similar problem, I manually unzipped the file and was able to use the command with no problems after than.

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Hi Thanks for the question.! Yes downloading the ngrok from the official site and extracting it and place the ngrok.exe into the shopify folder (C:\Users[YourUserName]\AppData\Local\shopify) will work.

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I have tried the suggested solution but it doesn’t work for me.

I made sure I downloaded the stable version of ngrok.

I am using Shopify CLI version 2.7.1

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I encountered same issue, but i was able to sort it out with same steps as @logez explained.

I just placed a ngrok.zip file manually in to the requested location on windows system

and it worked, I am using Shopify CLI version 2.7.x

Thanks