Node mirror stuck saying opening

[mondus]

Hi, I have installed node mirror on a clean ec2 ubuntu image as follows.

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install -y nodejs-legacy npm	
sudo npm install node-gyp node-mirror

Launched using:

sudo node node_modules/node-mirror/bin/nodeMirror.js --port 3000 --dir /home/mondus --username mondus --password mypassword

The terminal module works correctly but the file view is stuck saying Opening .... There is no error from the server. I have noticed that a previous issue suggested that the --dir argument should be an absolute path which I am specifying correctly. Any ideas?