Hapi: run on heroku error

[jamalsoueidan]

Hello,

I'm trying to run simple application on heroku, but it throws error, and I cannot figure out what the problem is.

var port = process.env.PORT || 80;
var Server = Hapi.createServer('localhost', port);

Error:
/restful_api/node_modules/hapi/node_modules/hoek/lib/index.js:382
throw new Error(msgs.join(' ') || 'Unknown error');

Error: Bad server constructor arguments: duplicated arg type: string (values: localhost, 5000)

Here is a working express app from heroku.

var express = require("express");
var app = express();
app.use(express.logger());

app.get('/', function(request, response) {
  response.send('Hello World!');
});

var port = process.env.PORT || 5000;
app.listen(port, function() {
  console.log("Listening on " + port);
});

What do you think the problem is?

https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/nodejs

[miloandmilk]

HAPI is expecting an integer for the port but it looks like process.env.PORT
is a string in this instance.

Try this -

var port = parseInt(process.env.PORT) || 5000

var server = new Hapi.createServer('localhost', serverConfig);

//set the port
server._port = process.env.PORT || 8001;
// Start the server
server.start();

On Wed, Sep 4, 2013 at 6:41 AM, Jamal Soueidan [email protected]:

Hello,

I'm trying to run simple application on heroku, but it throws error, and I
cannot figure out what the problem is.

´´´javascript
var port = process.env.PORT || 80;
var Server = Hapi.createServer('localhost', port);
´´´

Error:
/restful_api/node_modules/hapi/node_modules/hoek/lib/index.js:382
throw new Error(msgs.join(' ') || 'Unknown error');

Error: Bad server constructor arguments: duplicated arg type: string
(values: localhost, 5000)

Here is a working express app from heroku.

´´´javascript
var express = require("express");
var app = express();
app.use(express.logger());

app.get('/', function(request, response) {
response.send('Hello World!');
});

var port = process.env.PORT || 5000;
app.listen(port, function() {
console.log("Listening on " + port);
});
´´´

What do you think the problem is?

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[jamalsoueidan]

This works, but Heroku never start my app...?

foreman start
16:30:30 web.1 | started with pid 18135

...it hangs at started with pid...

Do you think this is related to hapi framework?

[miloandmilk]

I haven't used Heroku before, what is supposed to happen next?

Is something else supposed to display in the console? Can you ping the
server?

On Wed, Sep 4, 2013 at 3:30 PM, Jamal Soueidan [email protected]:

This works, but Heroku never start my app...?

foreman start
16:30:30 web.1 | started with pid 18135

...it hangs at started with pid...

Do you think this is related to hapi framework?

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.

[geek]

Here is a sample app of running hapi on heroku: https://github.com/wpreul/hapi-heroku

[miloandmilk]

Not knowing anything about Heroku and not knowing whether your server is
actually running on the PID given as output, i'm not sure if I can be much
more help.

If you have console access you could try ps -A and see if the PID is listed
and what process it is running - should be node. Are you writing anything
to console after the server has started?

Have you tried running the example you linked to?

On Wed, Sep 4, 2013 at 3:51 PM, Wyatt [email protected] wrote:

Here is a sample app of running hapi on heroku:
https://github.com/wpreul/hapi-heroku

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[jamalsoueidan]

Thank you very much milo for your help.

But I tried the example on heroku and it works, so now I'm trying to figure out what the problem is with my app :)

[adrianblynch]

@jamalsoueidan - Did you solve the issue? I'm facing something similar at the moment.

I ended up needing to switch from host: 'localhost' to host: '0.0.0.0'.

[MrwanBaghdad]

I found this to be working server.connection({port : process.env.PORT ||3000 })

[saru2020]

Worked!

app.listen(process.env.PORT || 5000);

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