After meteor bundle, node.js is "LISTENING" but not showing up at localhost

Question

I'm bundling a meteor app and running the uncompressed tarball with node. I am not sure why the app doesn't seem to appear on localhost. Here is how I'm bundling:

$ meteor bundle app.tar.gz

Then I uncompress:

$ tar -zxvf app.tar.gz

Then I cd into the bundle directory and do as the README says:

$ rm -r programs/server/node_modules/fibers
$ npm install fibers@1.0.1
$ export MONGO_URL='mongodb://<dbuser>:<dbpassword>@<PORT>.mongolab.com:<PORT>/<db>'
$ export ROOT_URL='http://localhost:3000'
$ node main.js

Then, node says it is LISTENING but localhost:3000 doesn't connect.

I have node v0.10.22, and Meteor says bundle has only been tested with node v0.10.21, but it seems unlikely to be the problem. Am I doing something wrong?

Answer 1

You also have to specify a PORT

export MONGO_URL='mongodb://<dbuser>:<dbpassword>@<PORT>.mongolab.com:<PORT>/<db>'
export ROOT_URL='http://localhost:3000'
export PORT=3000
node main.js