AWS sdk for node.js

Question

I'm uploading a node.js file via elastic beamstalk CLI. I'm using the sample given to me be AWS.

var http = require("http");
var AWS = require('aws-sdk');
http.createServer(function(request, response) {
  response.writeHead(200, {"Content-Type": "text/plain"});
  response.write("Hello Worlds");
  response.end();
}).listen(process.env.PORT || 8888);    

Everything works fine until I include the:

var AWS = require('aws-sdk');

Then I get this error message.

502 Bad Gateway

nginx/1.4.7

How do I fix this? I'm only uploading one file, server.js to beanstalk. Thanks

Answer 1

Can you ssh to the instance and see the logs in /var/log/nodejs/nodejs.log? I suspect you will need a package.json that installs aws-sdk as a dependency. Do you already have that?

Update 05/26:

I tried the following app. Below are the contents of various files in the app source zip.

package.json

{
   "dependencies": {
     "aws-sdk": "*"
    }
}

server.js

var http = require("http");
var AWS = require('aws-sdk');
http.createServer(function(request, response) {
  response.writeHead(200, {"Content-Type": "text/plain"});
  response.write("Hello Worlds");
  response.end();
}).listen(process.env.PORT || 8888); 

.ebextensions/01-setup.config

option_settings
    - namespace: aws:elasticbeanstalk:container:nodejs
      option_name: NodeVersion
      value: 0.10.26

I am using Solution Stack "64bit Amazon Linux 2014.03 v1.0.2 running Node.js" and the app with the above contents launches successfully. Can you try looking at both files /var/log/node/nodejs.log and /var/log/npm-debug.log?