Truffle: Migrate to ropsten, unknown network "true" error

Question

I am trying to deploy a work in progress dapp to the ropsten network using:

truffle migrate --network ropsten

I have a geth instance running in terminal and I receive the following error:

Unknown network "true". See your Truffle configuration file for available networks.

This is my truffle.js file:

    module.exports = {
      networks: {
        development: {
          host: "localhost",
          port: 8545,
          network_id: "*" // Match any network id
        },
        ropsten: {
          network_id: 3,
          host: "localhost",
          from: "<<Address is usually here>>",
          port: 8545,
          gas: 2900000
        }
      }
    };

EDIT: I am using ubuntu for development

Answer 1

If you're on Windows, make sure you're using truffle-config.js otherwise use truffle.js for configuration. I usually keep both files in sync to avoid confusion.

Answer 2

The problem was fixed after a fresh install of truffle

Answer 3

Not sure how beneficial now, but for future reference: I've moved on from truffles configs as I've had some problems on the mainnet. I've been deploying for some time using plain old node.js scripts and I've even written a small library to help me out. Here is a snippet:

const etherlime = require('etherlime');

const ICOTokenContract = require('./build/contracts/ICOToken.json');

const randomAddress = '0xda8a06f1c910cab18ad187be1faa2b8606c2ec86';

const defaultConfigs = {
    gasPrice: 20000000000,
    gasLimit: 4700000
}

const deployer = new etherlime.InfuraPrivateKeyDeployer('Your Privste KEY', 'ropsten', 'Your infura API key', defaultConfigs);

const runICODeployment = async () => {
    const contractWrapper = await deployer.deploy(ICOTokenContract);
    const transferTransaction = await contractWrapper.contract.transferOwnership(randomAddress);
    const result = await contractWrapper.verboseWaitForTransaction(transferTransaction.hash, 'Transfer Ownership');
}
runICODeployment()

Paste this in a file, change your contracts