heroku node.js bash: node: command not found

Question

there seems to be a strange problem with the deployment of my app on heroku on cedar stack where my node process doesn't even get called

my Procfile is as follows:

web: node web.js

and my package.json file:

{
 "name": "fuuzik",
 "version": "0.0.1",
 "dependencies": {
   "express": "3.x",
   "jade":"*",
   "mime-magic":"*"
  },
 "engines": {
  "node": "0.8.x",
  "npm": "1.1.x"
  }
}

So after i commit and push heroku detects it's a node app fine and builds my dependancies correctly and even says that it deployed .. yet the app is crashed immediately on deploy and heroku logs returns:

2012-08-29T08:52:14+00:00 heroku[api]: Deploy d9fdb17 by [email protected]
2012-08-29T08:52:14+00:00 heroku[web.1]: State changed from crashed to starting 
2012-08-29T08:52:14+00:00 heroku[slugc]: Slug compilation finished
2012-08-29T08:52:16+00:00 heroku[web.1]: Starting process with command `node web.js`
2012-08-29T08:52:16+00:00 app[web.1]: bash: node: command not found
2012-08-29T08:52:17+00:00 heroku[web.1]: Process exited with status 127 
2012-08-29T08:52:17+00:00 heroku[web.1]: State changed from starting to crashed

foreman runs fine and there are a couple of .php files around the root directory (since I am porting some old code) but I am pretty sure that should be allowed by the logic of Procfiles

As requested here's the output of npm install locally:

--[/DEBUG]--
[email protected] node_modules/jade
├── [email protected]
└── [email protected]

[email protected] node_modules/express
├── [email protected]
├── [email protected]
├── [email protected]
├── [email protected]
├── [email protected]
├── [email protected]
├── [email protected]
├── [email protected]
├── [email protected] ([email protected])
└── [email protected] ([email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected])

[email protected] node_modules/mime-magic

and here's the git log when i push (it's a bit big so i linked it):

http://pastebin.com/d424TBfR

Any help appreciated!

Answer 1

Try deleting your Procfile.

Apparently, the Procfile indicates heroku to run the app using node main.js but node is not a valid command since it is not included in the PATH varialbe, or similar.

By deleting the Procfile, heroku detects that the app is a meteor app and runs it using node's binary with the full path.

Also, remember the ROOT_URL must be set beginning with http://