Issue in starting Node App on Windows 7 - windows

Question

I am using windows 7 and I have installed node.js and express.
After I create a project using express using the command below
> express projectName
A new project is created and after that to install dependencies I do
> npm install
All works good so far. but when I try to start the application
> npm start
Below is the issue I get in the npm-debug.log file. Please suggest whats wrong here. I have tried many other threads but solution found there work for me.
0 info it worked if it ends with ok
1 verbose cli [ 'C:\\Program Files\\nodejs\\\\node.exe',
1 verbose cli 'C:\\Program Files\\nodejs\\node_modules\\npm\\bin\\npm-cli.js',
1 verbose cli 'start' ]
2 info using npm#1.4.28
3 info using node#v0.10.33
4 verbose node symlink C:\Program Files\nodejs\\node.exe
5 verbose run-script [ 'prestart', 'start', 'poststart' ]
6 info prestart NodeTestApp#0.0.0
7 info start NodeTestApp#0.0.0
8 verbose unsafe-perm in lifecycle true
9 info NodeTestApp#0.0.0 Failed to exec start script
10 error NodeTestApp#0.0.0 start: `node ./bin/www`
10 error spawn ENOENT
11 error Failed at the NodeTestApp#0.0.0 start script.
11 error This is most likely a problem with the NodeTestApp package,
11 error not with npm itself.
11 error Tell the author that this fails on your system:
11 error node ./bin/www
11 error You can get their info via:
11 error npm owner ls NodeTestApp
11 error There is likely additional logging output above.
12 error System Windows_NT 6.1.7601
13 error command "C:\\Program Files\\nodejs\\\\node.exe" "C:\\Program Files\\nodejs\\node_modules\\npm\\bin\\npm-cli.js" "start"
14 error cwd C:\Users\Ali\Desktop\NodeTestApp
15 error node -v v0.10.33
16 error npm -v 1.4.28
17 error syscall spawn
18 error code ELIFECYCLE
19 error errno ENOENT
20 verbose exit [ 1, true ]

Answer 1

child_process.spawn() returns ENOENT when it can't find the requested executable; in this case, node.exe. Looking closely at the log, we can see that npm start is attempting to run node app.js.
Is node on your PATH? What happens if you just type node app.js on the command line?

Answer 2

Try this.It's working for me on Windows 7 32 bit node.js
Create new blank folder for your project.Go to your project folder and create manually npm folder (don't use command line).
Then try again create new project.
Hope this help.