Node error on aws ubuntu but not OSX

Question

I have a project written using Express/Node and it runs locally on OSX just fine. However, when I cloned it to an aws EC2 instance running Ubuntu, I get this error:

events.js:72 throw er; // Unhandled 'error' event ^ Error: spawn ENOENT

When I open the public DNS in a browser. The html is served, but nothing in my public directory is being served with it. Even when I go to the files directly (eg ./css/style.css).

It must be a difference between Node on Ubuntu and Node on OSX? The error message isn't detailed enough to know what's going wrong...

Thanks for any help!

Answer 1

run the command npm rebuild at the Ubuntu server. This is probably caused by the binary files used in OSX. They're different at Ubuntu.

Answer 2

After two days, I finally found it. The express generator set up the project with a sass compiler, which requires Ruby and the Sass gem, which the aws Ubuntu distro didn't have. Thanks for helping me with this, everyone. I wish the error messages in node were a bit more helpful.