Amazon Elastic Beanstalk npm cant find package.json

Question

I'm very new with amazon web services, and I am trying to set up a node.js app on their elastic beanstalk. I set up the instance and uploaded/deployed the site, but while the health is "Ok" the node.js logs show this repeated about 30 times:

npm ERR! enoent ENOENT: no such file or directory, open '/var/app/current/package.json' npm ERR! enoent This is most likely not a problem with npm itself npm ERR! enoent and is related to npm not being able to find a file. npm ERR! enoent   npm ERR! Please include the following file with any support request: npm ERR!     /var/app/current/npm-debug.log npm ERR! Linux 4.1.13-19.31.amzn1.x86_64 npm ERR! argv "/opt/elasticbeanstalk/node-install/node-v4.2.3-linux-x64/bin/node" "/opt/elasticbeanstalk/node-install/node-v4.2.3-linux-x64/bin/npm" "start" npm ERR! node v4.2.3 npm ERR! npm  v2.14.7 npm ERR! path /var/app/current/package.json npm ERR! code ENOENT npm ERR! errno -2 npm ERR! syscall open 

The problem is that my package.json does exist because I generated one with npm init. Any ideas on why it cant be found? Here is the package.json

{     "name": "testwebsite",     "version": "0.0.1",     "scripts": {         "start": "node server.js"     },     "dependencies": {         "body-parser": "^1.13.3",         "express": "^4.13.3",         "express-session": "~1.0.0",         "socket.io": "^1.3.7"     },     "description": "my website",     "author": "Matt",     "engines": {         "node": ">=0.10.0"     },     "main": "server.js",     "devDependencies": {},     "license": "ISC" } 

Answer 1

From an official AWS thread[1], it appears (and this was my problem) that you might be zipping the top-level directory rather than zipping the source itself.

For example, you may have all of your files in a folder called "Project". Rather than zipping "Project", you should zip and upload the contents of "Project".

[1] https://forums.aws.amazon.com/thread.jspa?messageID=476022