Unable to install bower on Openshift
bower, node.js, openshift
Solution
Here is how I made use of `bower` on OpenShift using the node.js cartridge:
Prerequisites:
- Usually you have installed Bower globally.
- The git repo which you push to OpenShift must be readily configured for using Bower so that `bower install` from the root of the repo will do the job.
Necessary steps:
- Create the file `.openshift/action_hooks/deploy`
- Do `chmod +x .openshift/action_hooks/deploy` to make it executable BEFORE you add and commit it to your repo
- Add the following lines to the file:
`#!/usr/bin/env bash`
HOME=$HOME/app-root/runtime
cd ~/repo
npm install bower
./node_modules/.bin/bower install
- Add and commit the file to your git repo
- Push your git repo to OpenShift
Problem
I am unable to install bower on Openshift. I keep on getting errors like ``` remote: npm ERR! Error: ENOENT, lstat '/var/lib/openshift/537xxxxcd/app-root/runtime/repo/node_modules/bower/node_modules/mout/array/intersection.js'[K remote: npm ERR! If you need help, you may report this log at:[K remote: npm ERR! <http://github.com/isaacs/npm/issues>[K remote: npm ERR! or email it to:[K remote: npm ERR! <npm-@googlegroups.com>[K ``` You can see full deployment logs https://s3.amazonaws.com/archive.travis-ci.org/jobs/26291843/log.txt [From travis here]. I tried several approaches: 1) with and without .bowerrc file case:1 ``` { "directory": "~/app-root/runtime/repo/public/libs" "storage": { "cache": "~/app-root/runtime/repo/node_modules/bower/cache", "completion": "~/app-root/runtime/repo/node_modules/bower/completion", "git": "~/app-root/runtime/repo/node_modules/bower/git_template" }, "interactive": "false", "tmp":"~/app-root/runtime/repo/node_modules/bower/tmp", "cwd":"~/app-root/runtime/repo" } ``` case:2 ``` { "directory": "public libs" } ``` Also, tried running following commands [In $HOME/app-root/runtime/repo] and tried npm install bower by SSH shell ``` npm cache clear npm cache clean ``` Any help to resolve this would be great. In case you want to look at my repo you can find it here: https://github.com/prasunsultania/demoblog