setting up the port with Heroku

Question

I am using the express generator. It pre-sets my port to

var port = normalizePort(process.env.PORT || '3000');
app.set('port', port);

I have not been able to deploy to heroku. I read the logs and keep getting

    Error R10 (Boot timeout) -> Web process failed to bind to $PORT within 60 seconds of launch
2015-07-06T10:26:24.653626+00:00 heroku[web.1]: Stopping process with SIGKILL

I read through some other examples of deploying and came across this page on github. https://github.com/heroku/node-js-getting-started/blob/master/index.js#L4

This seems very similar to what I am doing. I assume by the error it is not reading my bin www file.

Is there a work around to this? I am not seeing what the error solution is.

Answer 1

I was encountering the same error. I'm new to node and still not sure what I'm doing but I changed my Procfile from web: node app.js to web: node ./bin/www. This will invoke the www file which sets logic for controlling the port number.