In my internal network I created a VM running Ubuntu 16.04, on which I installed my Node app and nginx in front of it as proxy. I’m trying to add Let’s Encrypt to nginx, but since it’s in a private network, I created these scripts to update the public facing DNS for the DNS challenge. Since it’s Node, I tried using shebangs and with the node command in front of the hooks arguments, but the node executable is never found.
Failed to find executable node in PATH: /usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/snap/bin
pre-hook command node exists, but is not executable.
This is very weird. I installed node using NVM, which adds the following lines to ~/.bash_rc:
export NVM_DIR="$HOME/.nvm"
[ -s "$NVM_DIR/nvm.sh" ] && \. "$NVM_DIR/nvm.sh" # This loads nvm
[ -s "$NVM_DIR/bash_completion" ] && \. "$NVM_DIR/bash_completion" # This loads nvm bash_completion
So if I run which node, I get /home/mcdado/.nvm/versions/node/v6.11.2/bin/node. Also, this is my PATH variable.
$ echo $PATH | tr ':' '\n'
/home/mcdado/.nvm/versions/node/v6.11.2/bin
/home/mcdado/bin
/home/mcdado/.local/bin
/usr/local/sbin
/usr/local/bin
/usr/sbin
/usr/bin
/sbin
/bin
/usr/games
/usr/local/games
/snap/bin
My only thought is that the hook are run in a shell that doesn’t load .bash_rc, can you confirm that this is the case? I’d prefer not having to keep symlinks in /usr/local/bin to the specific node, since NVM can change the path when changing versions. Any suggestions on what to do?
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My domain is: (internal)
I ran this command: sudo certbot --nginx --preferred-challenges dns-01 --pre-hook 'node /home/mcdado/ovh-certbot-dns/bin/create-record.js' --post-hook 'node /home/mcdado/ovh-certbot-dns/bin/delete-record.js' (also tried without node leading the js path, since the js files are executables with shebangs, similar results: /usr/bin/env: ‘node’: No such file or directory)
It produced this output: Failed to find executable node in PATH: /usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/snap/bin pre-hook command node exists, but is not executable.'
My web server is (include version): nginx 1.10.3
The operating system my web server runs on is (include version): Ubuntu 16.04.3 Server
I can login to a root shell on my machine: yes (sudo)
I’m using a control panel to manage my site (no, or provide the name and version of the control panel): no