unable to run application start script in appspec.yml due to older node and npm versions. Unable to update them

Question

I am trying to deploy an application on an EC2 instance using codepipeline in aws. I'm using codedeploy for this. I am successfully able to get the application from github and build it using codebuild but it fails at deployment with the following error. I am unable to understand what the issue is. I have tried updating node and npm in buildspec.yml file but appspec.yml is still not able to pull that updated version of node/npm. I'm new to aws. Does anyone know where its pulling these versions from and how to override them? Attached is the error. My package.json. appspec.yml. buildspec.yml. application_start.sh and builspec_yml.sh.

here is the error

[stderr]npm ERR! argv "/usr/bin/node" "/usr/bin/npm" "run" "server"
[stderr]npm ERR! node v6.17.1
[stderr]npm ERR! npm v3.10.10
[stderr]npm ERR! code ELIFECYCLE
[stderr]npm ERR! [email protected] server: `node server.js`
[stderr]npm ERR! Exit status 1
[stderr]npm ERR!
[stderr]npm ERR! Failed at the [email protected] server script 'node server.js'.
[stderr]npm ERR! Make sure you have the latest version of node.js and npm installed.
[stderr]npm ERR! If you do, this is most likely a problem with the react-tmp package,
[stderr]npm ERR! not with npm itself.
[stderr]npm ERR! Tell the author that this fails on your system:
[stderr]npm ERR! node server.js
[stderr]npm ERR! You can get information on how to open an issue for this project with:
[stderr]npm ERR! npm bugs react-tmp
[stderr]npm ERR! Or if that isn't available, you can get their info via:
[stderr]npm ERR! npm owner ls react-tmp
[stderr]npm ERR! There is likely additional logging output above.
[stderr]npm WARN Local package.json exists, but node_modules missing, did you mean to install?
[stderr]npm ERR! Linux 4.14.209-160.339.amzn2.x86_64
[stderr]npm ERR! argv "/usr/bin/node" "/usr/bin/npm" "run" "server"
[stderr]npm ERR! node v6.17.1
[stderr]npm ERR! npm v3.10.10
[stderr]npm ERR! path npm-debug.log.4097552080
[stderr]npm ERR! code EACCES
[stderr]npm ERR! errno -13
[stderr]npm ERR! syscall open
[stderr]
[stderr]npm ERR! Error: EACCES: permission denied, open 'npm-debug.log.4097552080'
[stderr]npm ERR! at Error (native)
[stderr]npm ERR! { Error: EACCES: permission denied, open 'npm-debug.log.4097552080'
[stderr]npm ERR! at Error (native)
[stderr]npm ERR! errno: -13,
[stderr]npm ERR! code: 'EACCES',
[stderr]npm ERR! syscall: 'open',
[stderr]npm ERR! path: 'npm-debug.log.4097552080' }
[stderr]npm ERR!
[stderr]npm ERR! Please try running this command again as root/Administrator.
[stderr]
[stderr]npm ERR! Please include the following file with any support request:
[stderr]npm ERR! /var/www/html/npm-debug.log

appspec.yml:

version: 0.0
os: linux
files:
  - source: /
    destination: /var/www/html/
hooks:
  ApplicationStart:
    - location: scripts/application_start.sh
      timeout: 300
      runas: ec2-user

application_start.sh:

#!/bin/bash

# Stop all servers and start the server as a daemon
cd /var/www/html/
forever stopall
nohup npm run server

buildspec.yml:

version: 0.2

phases:
  install:
    commands:
      - chmod +x scripts/buildspec_yml.sh
      - scripts/buildspec_yml.sh
  build:
    commands:
      - npm run start
artifacts:
  files:
    - '**/*'

scripts/builspec_yml.sh:

#!/bin/bash

nvm install 14.4.0
npm install -g npm@latest
npm i forever -g

Thank you for looking into this

Mr. Mr. · Accepted Answer · 2021-01-08T07:56:40

without any relation to aws, looking at your scripts/builspec_yml.sh script, it seems that you forgot to instruct nvm that you wish to use the version you install. try...

#!/bin/bash

# install and use node version
nvm install 14.4.0
nvm use 14.4.0

# print node and npm version
node --version
npm --version

# upgrade npm and install forever
npm install -g npm@latest
npm install -g forever

if you are using nvm, i will advise you to use .nvmrc and specify the node version there

unable to run application start script in appspec.yml due to older node and npm versions. Unable to update them

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