Adding a custom Node JS version to openshift doesn't work for my app

Question

I have written an application which needs Node.js >= 4.2.6 I'm using the OpenShift service and the default Node.Js version is 0.10. Installing this https://github.com/ryanj/nodejs-custom-version-openshift is supposed to resolve this problem. So I followed the instructions and created a new application using:

rhc app create nodeapp nodejs --from-code=git://github.com/ryanj/nodejs-custom-version-openshift.git

So far so good. Next step - copy my project to the cloned git repository. Here's where I'm unsure if my approach is right (new to Node js). Because the cloned git already has a JSON package and because my app has its own JSON package in its root directory, I enriched the JSON package that came with nodejs-custom-version-openshift.git with my dependencies and set the engines to 4.2.6. The main is set to server.js. To run my app, I'm using "var variable = require('./myapp-master/test/test');" as the last line in my server.js. I copy the content of my app to the cloned repository (including node modules etc.) careful not to overwrite any existing config files like the JSON Package and then I use git push. The node version is installed properly according to the logs (upon build), servers.js is executed and it invokes my test.js. I can see in the app logs (app-root/logs) that test.js throws a specific error that indicates that the node js version is not >= 4.2.6.

When I log-in with PUTTY and write node -v, I get 4.2.6. When I navigate to my test.js and start it manually with node test.js, it runs normally. What am I doing wrong? I suspect I'm not handling the JSON packages properly (or my approach with starting my app from server.js is flawed). Any help is greatly appreciated! Thank you for your time.

Answer 1

Ok, I found the solution to this: https://github.com/ryanj/nodejs-custom-version-openshift/issues/2