Unable to install bower on Openshift

Question

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

Answer 1

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:

1. Create the file .openshift/action_hooks/deploy
2. Do chmod +x .openshift/action_hooks/deploy to make it executable BEFORE you add and commit it to your repo
3. 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

4. Add and commit the file to your git repo
5. Push your git repo to OpenShift

Answer 2

This suggests the following approach:

1. Add dependency "bower": "latest" to package.json

2. Add script for postinstall:

   "scripts": {  
       ... 
       "postinstall": "HOME=$OPENSHIFT_REPO_DIR bower install || bower install"  
   },
   

Answer 3

well, for each time you need to use bower install, you can use export HOME=$HOME/app-root/runtime/repo in the RHC tool, and then into the folder './app-root/repo' you can use the bower install, if bower command is not available, go to folder './nodejs' and do npm install bower.

Then, in order with RHC tool (this worked perfect to me):

• 1 - rhc ssh proyect-name
• 2 - cd nodejs
• 3 - npm install bower
• 4 - cd ..
• 5 - export HOME=$HOME/app-root/runtime/repo
• 6 - cd app-root/repo
• 7 - bower install

done! good luck with your projects