Result "ERROR: The specified config file doesn’t exist or is unreadable:" when config file does exist and is readable

[terry-webfox]

Running this command from within my project folder:

html-minifier -c html-minifier.cfg -o lib/welcome.html client/welcome.html

gives error:

ERROR: The specified config file doesn’t exist or is unreadable:
/var/www/projectfolder/html-minifier.cfg

The config file does exist and is readable, so surely this error shouldn't occur?

Am using v1.0.0 from Linux Mint

[terry-webfox]

I installed v0.8.0:

sudo npm install -g [email protected]

and then the command given above worked. Looks like it's a bug specific to version 1.0.0

[mosbth]

I got the same error when using html-minifier on Travis where version 1.0.0 was installed. It was installed through npm -g html-minifier.

$ html-minifier --version
html-minifier v1.0.0

It failed with this error:

WARNING html-minifier failed: build//clearfix/clear-no.html
ERROR: The specified config file doesn’t exist or is unreadable:
/home/travis/build/mosbth/htmlphp/.html-minifier.conf

My config file is:

$ more .html-minifier.conf 
{                                               
  "removeComments": true,                       
  "collapseWhitespace": true,                   
  "conservativeCollapse": true,                 
  "collapseBooleanAttributes": true,            
  "removeAttributeQuotes": true,                
  "removeRedundantAttributes": true,            
  "useShortDoctype": true,                      
  "removeEmptyAttributes": false,               
  "removeOptionalTags": false,                  
  "removeEmptyElements": false,                 
  "lint": false,                                
  "keepClosingSlash": true,                     
  "caseSensitive": true,                        
  "minifyJS": true,                             
  "minifyCSS":  true                            
}                                               

The travis build is here:
https://travis-ci.org/mosbth/htmlphp/builds/91836199

I updated html-minifier on my local debian (unstable) and it worked fine with 1.0.0. So perhaps its something special with the Travis environment.

I installed version 0.8.0 at Travis which worked fine (see the build):
https://travis-ci.org/mosbth/htmlphp/builds/91842585

[alexlamsl]

@terry-webfox @mosbth since you two have reproducible environments, may I ask you to:

• install the latest version (1.1.1)
• confirms the issue still exists
• comment out this line
• run again to see if the problem persists?

[mosbth]

@alexlamsl I can confirm that version 1.1.1 gives the same error on Travis.
https://travis-ci.org/mosbth/htmlphp/jobs/107185469

I'm not able to comment out the line on Travis, so I can not try to see if the problem exists after that.

[alexlamsl]

@mosbth can you run node on the machine?

If so, try fs.accessSync('/path/to/conf') and see what returns?

[alexlamsl]

@mosbth I meant to say fs.accessSync('/path/to/file.conf', fs.R_OK)

[mosbth]

It looks like this:

Complete build:
https://travis-ci.org/mosbth/htmlphp/jobs/107198002

The interesting part when Travis runs the test:

$ node test.js
Trying fs.accessSync('.html-minifier.conf');
/home/travis/build/mosbth/htmlphp/test.js:7
fs.accessSync('.html-minifier.conf');
   ^
TypeError: Object #<Object> has no method 'accessSync'
    at Object.<anonymous> (/home/travis/build/mosbth/htmlphp/test.js:7:4)
    at Module._compile (module.js:456:26)
    at Object.Module._extensions..js (module.js:474:10)
    at Module.load (module.js:356:32)
    at Function.Module._load (module.js:312:12)
    at Function.Module.runMain (module.js:497:10)
    at startup (node.js:119:16)
    at node.js:929:3

The script test.js:

/**
 *
 */
var fs = require('fs');

console.log("Trying fs.accessSync('.html-minifier.conf');");
fs.accessSync('.html-minifier.conf');

Same result rerunning the build using fs.R_OK
https://travis-ci.org/mosbth/htmlphp/jobs/107199737

So, hey, perhaps just old version of node which does not have this method available.
Travis automatically installs older version of node.

$ node --version
v0.10.36

[alexlamsl]

@mosbth definitely not available on that version of Node.js

@kangax I don't think we need the call to this, plus there are related issues that imply this is not entirely reliable. Would it be okay to remove a call to this altogether?

[kangax]

What's the purpose of that call in the first place?

[alexlamsl]

AFAICT, it is to check if the configuration file is accessible - which I think is duplicating the exception to be potentially thrown by readFileSync()

[kangax]

Ok, let's remove it then.