I used the express generator to create a simple express app, which when started on dev works fine on localhost:3000.
When I push this to elastic beanstalk using the eb command-- git aws.push, however, I get a 502 error on the production server.
Looking into the logs, the error I get is:
2014/04/01 19:29:40 [error] 24204#0: *1 connect() failed (111: Connection refused) while connecting to upstream, client: 172.31.2.178, server: , request: "GET / HTTP/1.1", upstream: "http://127.0.0.1:8081/", host: "macenvexp-env-hqv9ucmzev.elasticbeanstalk.com"
2014/04/01 19:29:40 [error] 24204#0: *1 connect() failed (111: Connection refused) while connecting to upstream, client: 172.31.2.178, server: , request: "GET /favicon.ico HTTP/1.1", upstream: "http://127.0.0.1:8081/favicon.ico", host: "macenvexp-env-hqv9ucmzev.elasticbeanstalk.com"
I'm using the default nginx configuration. When I run a node.js sample app without Express, it works fine. Here's the express code in app.js:
var express = require('express');
var http = require('http');
var path = require('path');
var favicon = require('static-favicon');
var logger = require('morgan');
var cookieParser = require('cookie-parser');
var bodyParser = require('body-parser');
var routes = require('./routes');
var users = require('./routes/user');
var app = express();
// view engine setup
app.set('views', path.join(__dirname, 'views'));
app.set('view engine', 'jade');
app.use(favicon());
app.use(logger('dev'));
app.use(bodyParser.json());
app.use(bodyParser.urlencoded());
app.use(cookieParser());
app.use(express.static(path.join(__dirname, 'public')));
app.use(app.router);
app.get('/', routes.index);
app.get('/users', users.list);
/// catch 404 and forwarding to error handler
app.use(function(req, res, next) {
var err = new Error('Not Found');
err.status = 404;
next(err);
});
/// error handlers
// development error handler
// will print stacktrace
if (app.get('env') === 'development') {
app.use(function(err, req, res, next) {
res.render('error', {
message: err.message,
error: err
});
});
}
// production error handler
// no stacktraces leaked to user
app.use(function(err, req, res, next) {
res.render('error', {
message: err.message,
error: {}
});
});
module.exports = app;
And here's the package.json file:
{
"name": "macEnvExp",
"version": "0.0.1",
"private": true,
"scripts": {
"start": "DEBUG=macEnvExp node bin/www"
},
"dependencies": {
"express": "~3.4.8",
"static-favicon": "~1.0.0",
"morgan": "~1.0.0",
"cookie-parser": "~1.0.1",
"body-parser": "~1.0.0",
"debug": "~0.7.4",
"jade": "~1.3.0"
}
}
And here is bin/www:
#!/usr/bin/env node
var debug = require('debug')('my-application');
var app = require('../app');
app.configure(function(){
app.set('port', process.env.PORT || 3000);
});
console.log(app.get('port'));
var server = app.listen(app.get('port'), function() {
debug('Express server listening on port ' + server.address().port);
});
