How to serve a Nodejs & Express app using Phusion Passanger - node.js

Question

I have a node & express app that is currently hosted on a shared hosting. I would like to run and manage the app using Phusion Passenger. My hosting account supports nodejs applications managed by Passenger which i have never used before.
The server code generated when setting up the Node app is the basic server setup as below.
var http = require('http');
var server = http.createServer(function(req, res) {
res.writeHead(200, {'Content-Type': 'text/plain'});
var message = 'It works!\n',
version = 'NodeJS ' + process.versions.node + '\n',
response = [message, version].join('\n');
res.end(response);
});
server.listen();
I would like to replace this with the code below that has elements of express that i am using to serve my API routes.
//import modules
var express = require('express'),
bodyParser = require('body-parser'),
morgan = require('morgan'),
cors = require('cors');
path = require('path');
var app = express();
var port = process.env.PORT || 3000;
//import database connection from dbconnect.js file
var mysql = require('./dbconnect/dbconnect');
//Parse as urlencoded and json.
app.use(bodyParser.urlencoded({extended:false}));
app.use(bodyParser.json());
//adding middleware - cors
app.use(cors());
//Http logger
app.use(morgan('dev'));
//Uncomment for production
//app.use(express.static(__dirname + '/public'));
// Point static path to public
app.use(express.static(path.join(__dirname, 'public')));
//import routes from /routes/routes.js
var user = require('./routes/Users');
route = require('./routes/route');
router = require('./router/router');
//adding routes
app.use('/api', user, route, router);
// Catch all other routes and return the index file
app.get('/*', (req, res) => { res.sendFile(path.join(__dirname, '/public/index.html'));
});
app.use(function (req,res,next){
res.header("Access-Control-Allow-Origin", "*");
res.header("Access-Control-Allow-Headers", "x-access-token, Origin, Content-Type, Accept");
next();
});
app.listen(port, function() {console.log('Server started at http://localhost:'+port+'/');});
but i get the error:
I am currently running my server script on the shared server using Forever, which is working fine but that hasn't been efficient, so i would like to switch to using Passenger.

Answer 1

Are you able to set your NODE_ENV=development and then look at your page again? It will likely output a lot more information, why it throws the Error.
With the error information, we can have a better look at what might be wrong.
Thanks,
Marc

Answer 2

I suspect it has to do with your routes and it not finding the files.