Bug 843656

Summary:	nodejs - how can I change the config to run myserver.js rather than server.js
Product:	OKD	Reporter:	Nam Duong <nduong>
Component:	Containers	Assignee:	Ram Ranganathan <ramr>
Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG	QA Contact:	libra bugs <libra-bugs>
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Version:	2.x	CC:	jofernan, mfisher
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Description Nam Duong 2012-07-26 22:31:24 UTC

Description of problem:
A user on IRC pointed out that our KB article is no longer valid:
https://openshift.redhat.com/community/kb/kb-e1048-how-can-i-run-my-own-nodejs-script

Sure enough, the file ~/{appName}/conf/node.env no longer exists.  Even if I wrote one to use node_app=myserver.js, and restart the app, it will still try to call server.js.

The user tried changing ~/{appName}/repo/package.json to:
  "main": "myserver.js"
It will still execute server.js

How do I change it?

Comment 1 Ram Ranganathan 2012-08-01 05:56:26 UTC

node.env has been deprecated w/ the support for package.json. 

The way to get this working is to add the following to your package.json:
  "scripts": {
    "start": "node <relative-path-from-repo-dir>/myserver.js"
  },

That would start node up and use myserver.js as the script to run.