I have a starter (free) tier account with Openshift online. I have an application consisting of two pods, a Node and a Mongo. The pods build and deploy; from the terminal that executes in the web console on the running Node pod I can run curl localhost:8080 and the Node process obligingly spits back my base page.
I have a route that was autogenerated; the web console gives me a link to <myappname>.stuff.starter-east-1.openshiftapps.com and appears to correctly reference the Node service that sits on top of the running Node pod.
However, when I point my browser at that hostname, I get the Openshift error page that tells me that either the route or path was not typed correctly, or the pod isn't running.
I have tried this with my own code and with the example node packages and I see the same thing.
When I use the oc tool to query things about my application, I see that I don't have a router resource - but the route claims to have been exposed on a router. So I think I'm using some kind of default router in the node, and I don't have to launch one in my project, but I'm not sure. Most of the other questions around this topic are for people using the Enterprise product and running on their own hardware, where they have more control at the admin layer over the router package; all the suggestions seem to imply that for the Online product this 'just works'. Any ideas what I am missing?
Update : After some period of time, the example project did work and a browser request was serviced with the basic example page. Looking at the two setups I cannot see any differences, or why my route (in my custome app) never gets activated but the sample project route does.