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Cloud foundry SSH not working

I am not able to make SSH working.
I checked that SSH is enable on the Application and Space level. But when i ran

cf ssh "MY-APP-NAME" i get the following error:

FAILED
Error: SSH session allocation failed: ssh: unexpected packet in response to 
channel open: <nil>

I also tried to connect without CLi and using the command

ssh -p 2222 cf:abcdefab-1234-5678-abcd-1234abcd1234/[email protected] But when i entered the password the server stopped the connection (i used Putty).

I am trying to access with SSH because i need to launch npm install to install the dependencies of my application.

Thank you for your help

Solution

  • There is no need to ssh into an app to install dependencies. Please have a look at Swisscoms Getting Started Guide for Node.js: https://docs.developer.swisscom.com/tutorial-nodejs/index.html The section 'Declare App Dependencies' (https://docs.developer.swisscom.com/tutorial-nodejs/dependencies.html) shows you how you specify the dependencies in a file called 'package.json'. This will then be automatically installed by the nodejs buildpack (https://github.com/cloudfoundry/nodejs-buildpack).