Error when starting Strapi: meilisearch: No such file or directory (os error 2)

[Matb85]

Description
Whenever I start Strapi I get the error shown on screenshots

Expected behavior
Provide better errror message (what is the path of the missing file or dir?) or fix the issue

Current behavior
Whenever I start Strapi I get the error shown on screenshots

Screenshots or Logs

Environment (please complete the following information):

• OS: Macos 15
• Meilisearch version: v1.3.3
• strapi-plugin-meilisearch version: 0.13.1
• Browser: Chrome
• Strapi version: 5.4.2

[brunoocasali]

Hi @Matb85 can you share your meilisearch plugin config file?

[Matb85]

[Matb85]

Nevermind, I have resolved the issue myself.

It had nothing to do with strapi-plugin-meilisearch - my meili_data folder was missing on my server. I just followed again the installation tutorial and now everything is working.

https://www.meilisearch.com/docs/learn/self_hosted/install_meilisearch_locally

I believe that if the plugin had had better logging I would have found the issue much faster.

The error was being shown during execution of this function:

I did not know that the catch statement in this function logs errors returned in http reuests by the meilisearch instance, not errors caused by the plugin's logic itself:

strapi2.log.error(`meilisearch: ${e.message}`);

I would change this to something like:

strapi2.log.error(`meilisearch GET request error: ${e.message}`);

[brunoocasali]

Hi @Matb85 are you still facing this issue? 🤔