What did a npm audit fix --force change and how do you fix it?

I was trying to npm install apn --save and used npm audit fix --force. The 'Hope you know what you are doing' message made me realize that I dont know what I am doing. After that I originally was getting

node /home/ec2-user/myapp/bin/www: symbol lookup error:   /home/ec2-user/myapp/node_modules/bcrypt/lib/binding/napi-v3/bcrypt_lib.node: undefined symbol: napi_add_finalizer  

so I updated node to V14.16.0 but that didn't help so I decided to delete package-lock.json and node_modules and ran npm install after. This error would now come up,

PM2 error: Error: spawn node ENOENT      at Process.ChildProcess._handle.onexit (internal/child_process.js:269:19)      at onErrorNT (internal/child_process.js:465:16)      at processTicksAndRejections (internal/process/task_queues.js:80:21)  

and I realized that PM2 didnt use the new node version. I upgraded PM2 and now it shows that my app is online opposed to errored.
But I still get a 502 error if my node server was running(port 8080) when trying to run my website

[proxy_http:error] [pid 22860] (20014)Internal error   (specific information not available): [client my IP address]   AH01102: error reading status line from remote server 127.0.0.1:8080  

and a 503 error if I stopped my node server.

[proxy:error] [pid 13022] (111)Connection refused:   AH00957: HTTP: attempt to connect to 127.0.0.1:8080 (127.0.0.1) failed  

Has anyone else experienced this? Any and all help would be much appreciated. Also I believe node-forge was a dependent for apn and needed the npm audit fix -- force

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/67030285/what-did-a-npm-audit-fix-force-change-and-how-do-you-fix-it April 10, 2021 at 10:30AM