Updating nodejs in Elastic Beanstalk

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I've been trying to deploy a meteor project (leaderboard example) to Amazons Elastic Beanstalk. I used the ebconfiguration script found at https://gist.github.com/fightingtheboss/5432059 and edited the ROOT_URL and NodeVersion as well as having added a MONGO_URI and DISABLE_WEBSOCKETS variable. After all this, meteor complains that it needs at least node v0.10.21, and after checking I see that despite the fact that I specified 0.10.21 in BOTH the configuration script and the console, the server prints out that it's running nodejs v0.8.24. I've tried updating by specifying it through the yum block, manually downloading the latest version of node and moving it to /usr/local/ as well as downloading the source and compiling. None of these worked, the server insists on that it runs node v0.8.24. Does anyone know how to update nodejs on Elastic Beanstalk to at least v0.10.21?

Check if `sudo node --version` and `node --version` give different outputs. Also how did you initially install node was it using yum? Is your instance built on amazon linux? — Tarang, Dec 02 '13 at 22:12
It doesn't let me run sudo node --version, states that I need tty to run sudo. — user3058175, Dec 09 '13 at 17:29

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered May 22 '14 at 23:32

Steps to update node version in EB.

Go to the EB console
Select your environment
Select Configuration from the left side menu
Click on the setting icon of Software Configuration
Change the node version 0.8.24 to 0.10.21
Hit Save button located at the bottom right corner.

The process may take few minutes.

score -1 · Answer 2 · answered Dec 03 '13 at 05:20

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How old is your elastic beanstalk container? If it was originally created several months ago there are limits as to which version of node that can be run within that container (http://docs.aws.amazon.com/elasticbeanstalk/latest/dg/concepts.platforms.html).

If it is not the above, when you upgrade via the console does the console show your version as being 0.10.21?

answered Dec 03 '13 at 05:20

Chris Dellinger

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The container was created the same day, and no matter what action I took, it always reported 0.8.24. – user3058175 Dec 06 '13 at 14:05

score -1 · Answer 3 · answered Dec 31 '13 at 01:04

According to this document, the most recent version of Node supported in EB is 0.10.10:

http://docs.aws.amazon.com/elasticbeanstalk/latest/dg/create_deploy_nodejs.container.html

edit: As Chris states though, 0.10.21 is supposed to be supported however in my experience I've only gotten 0.10.10 to work successfully using the methods you describe.

Updating nodejs in Elastic Beanstalk

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