Why am I getting permissions issues on my Font Files using Openshift

Question

I am working on a node.js project using OpenShift. Everything works great accept I get a 404 on my font awesome files. When I ssh I see...

ls app-deployments/current/repo/public/build/fortawesome/font-awesome/v4.0.3/fonts/
FontAwesome.css  FontAwesome.otf  fontawesome-webfont.eot  fontawesome-webfont.svg  fontawesome-webfont.ttf  fontawesome-webfont.woff

But when I try to go to

http://<gear>/build/fortawesome/font-awesome/v4.0.3/fonts/fontawesome-webfont.woff

It says...

Cannot GET /build/fortawesome/font-awesome/v4.0.3/fonts/fontawesome-webfont.woff

http://<gear>/build/fortawesome/font-awesome/v4.0.3/fonts/fontawesome/FontAwesome.css

Works fine. It also works fine locally.

Now with permission goodness

lrwxrwxrwx. 1 * *  * FontAwesome.otf 
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 * *  * fontawesome-webfont.eot 
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 * *  * fontawesome-webfont.svg
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 * *  * fontawesome-webfont.ttf 
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 * *  * fontawesome-webfont.woff 

As you can see the permissions look normal

Answer 1

From the permissions you posted, looks like they are symlink. Check whether your webserver has access (is following symlink) to the original file/location.

Answer 2

Look inside your ~/app-root/repo directory and make sure the files are there, and that they have the correct permissions to web accessible.

Answer 3

configure a static route using

app.use('/fontawesome', express.static(__dirname+'/fontawesome'));