Forever is not recognized as a internal or external command

Asked Jan 23 '18 at 11:30

Active Jan 23 '18 at 12:39

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Basically i'm a linux user. For the first time i'm running my node.js application in windows machine. I want to run my application as background process.

So installed forever globally npm install forever -g. Now i tried to run my node application using forever start app.js.

I am receiving error as forever is not reconised as internal or external command.

I tried setting the ENV varibales pointing to bin folder of forever. But still im getting the error.

OS:Windows 7

Please share your ideas.

Package.Json

{
"Name":"xxxx",
"version":"1.0.0",
"dependencies":{
     "async":"^2.5.0",
     "forever":"^0.15.3"
}
}

Node version: 8.9.3
npm version:5.5.1

edited Jan 23 '18 at 12:39

asked Jan 23 '18 at 11:30

Subburaj

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have you changed the node version before running **forever start**?? – deepak thomas Jan 23 '18 at 11:34
put your package file also – Ashh Jan 23 '18 at 11:56
@deepak thomas why i have to change the version??? – Subburaj Jan 23 '18 at 12:05
@AshishChoudhary see my edited post.. – Subburaj Jan 23 '18 at 12:09
whats your current node version?? – shamon shamsudeen Jan 23 '18 at 12:32
did you use nvm to manage your node versions?? – shamon shamsudeen Jan 23 '18 at 12:43
before running forever check the nodejs version – shamon shamsudeen Jan 23 '18 at 12:47
So obvious thing to check is making sure you've relaunched the command window (common problem on Windows where environment variables don't reload). Second thing would be to check the [global NPM bin folder](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/33819757/global-npm-install-location-on-windows) and verify you can see Forever in there. – James Jan 23 '18 at 12:52
@James I did that i relaunched the command window. No hope.. – Subburaj Jan 23 '18 at 13:51
Did you installed it as administrator ? Do you run it as administrator ? – Gabriel Bleu Jan 23 '18 at 14:12
@Subburaj and did you verify the package has been definitely installed globally? Also try installing another package globally e.g. `grunt`, check that this works. Failing that I think it's a clean Node uninstall / reinstall I'm afraid. – James Jan 23 '18 at 14:36

Forever is not recognized as a internal or external command

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