title: Deploy meteor 8.3 and higher on openshift
body: <p>My question is simple, does anyone know how to make a meteor app running version 8.3 and higher on openshift server. </p>
  
  <p>I tried following the tutorial provided from Openshift: <a href="https://github.com/openshift-quickstart/openshift-meteorjs-quickstart" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/openshift-quickstart/openshift-meteorjs-quickstart</a></p>
  
  <p>The issue with this, it is pretty old and meant to be run with older meteor version. The error I get from the console says that it needs node.js version 0.10.29 or higher to run.</p>
  
  <p>I tried using custom solutions for custom node.js versions like this: <a href="https://github.com/vladka/openshift-meteor-leaderboard-customNode" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/vladka/openshift-meteor-leaderboard-customNode</a> and "/ramr/nodejs-custom-version-openshift"</p>
  
  <p>I also tried using some branches and other solutions like   "/questions/24316495/how-to-upgrade-node-js-in-openshift-gear" and   "/questions/20408160/meteor-on-openshift-node-version"</p>
  
  <p>None of the above solutions worked for me. I tried using different deployments, I used the basic "bundle" function from meteor 8.3 version as described for openshift. It didn't work. I tried using "demeteorizer" too. On higher meteor versions I used "build" too. It didn't work. Every time it was just saying that meteor needs 0.10.29 or higher to run even though it was reported under /env path and console that it uses a custom node.js version of 0.10.29 or higher (depending on what I used).</p>
  
  <p>I tried using both Linux and windows for meteor itself. Used 8.0 and all higher versions. Checked for dependencies and all related version upgrades for meteor. It runs locally just fine so there are no meteor issues on it's own. It also runs on a test server on meteor.com itself, so I doubt that it is a meteor version issue, or my specific meteor app itself. </p>
  
  <p>I tried using a basic example from one of the above links with a meteor version 0.6.3 which did work because it uses an older version of node.js. Officially openshift supports and provides only node.js version 0.10.25 that's why an older version of meteor with an example app worked fine.</p>