Setting NODE_ENV with forman causes process to terminate with NodeJS

Question

Just altered by Procfile so that instead of having something along the lines of:

process: node process.js

I had a setup along the lines of:

env1: NODE_ENV=env1 node process.js
env2: NODE_ENV=env2 node process.js

However after doing this, running the environment with:

foreman start env1

Causes the process to just terminate:

11:04:37 env1.1         | started with pid 1304
11:04:38 env1.1         | process terminated
11:04:38 system         | sending SIGTERM to all processes

Does anyone have any ideas?

I found this post which may be similar (http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8734398/foreman-not-working-with-nginx) but I cant see how to apply this to NodeJS since most people seem to have to fight to get NodeJS to run as a daemon.

Cheers, Matt

Answer 1

I found an alternative route to achieve what I wanted. I passed the values in as command line arguments in forman which prevents this behaviour.

http://nodejs.org/docs/latest/api/process.html#process.argv