Unable to deploy Solidity contract to Rinkeby network (Invalid asm.js: Invalid member of stdlib)

I’ve been learning Solidity using this course by Stephen Grider and it’s been going well until now, where I am trying to deploy my code to the Rinkeby test network.

For reference, I am using Node version 11.15.0 with npm version 6.7.0 with these dependencies:

"dependencies": {
    "ganache-cli": "^6.4.3",
    "mocha": "^6.1.4",
    "nan": "^2.14.0",
    "scrypt": "^6.0.3",
    "solc": "^0.4.25",
    "truffle": "^4.1.15",
    "truffle-hdwallet-provider": "0.0.4",
    "web3": "^1.0.0-beta.35" }

I have spent hours switching between versions of Node.js, npm, and all sorts of combinations of the dependencies, from the most current versions to the versions specified in the course. While I am getting a multitude of issues, the most prominent two seem to be

(node:32436) V8: C:Desktopsolidityinboxnode_modulessolcsoljson.js:3 Invalid asm.js: Invalid member of stdlib

and

C:Desktopsolidityinboxnode_modulessolcsoljson.js:1
var Module;if(!Module)Module=(typeof Module!=="undefined"?Module:null)||{};var moduleOverrides={};for(var key in Module){if(Module.hasOwnProperty(key)){moduleOverrides[key]=Module[key]}}var ENVIRONMENT_IS_WEB=typeof window==="object";var ENVIRONMENT_IS_WORKER=typeof importScripts==="function";var ENVIRONMENT_IS_NODE=typeof process==="object"&&typeof require==="function"&&!ENVIRONMENT_IS_WEB&&!ENVIRONMENT_IS_WORKER;var ENVIRONMENT_IS_SHELL=!ENVIRONMENT_IS_WEB&&!ENVIRONMENT_IS_NODE&&!ENVIRONMENT_IS_WORKER;if(ENVIRONMENT_IS_NODE){if(!Module["print"])Module["print"]=function print(x){process["stdout"].write(x+"n")};if(!Module["printErr"])Module["printErr"]=function printErr(x){process["stderr"].write(x+"n")};var nodeFS=require("fs");var nodePath=require("path");Module["read"]=function read(filename,binary){filename=nodePath["normalize"](filename);var ret=nodeFS["readFileSync"](filename);if(!ret&&filename!=nodePath["resolve"](filename)){filename=path.joi

Error: CONNECTION ERROR: Couldn't connect to node rinkeby.infura.io/v3/acb10732334e4450ba7dc55e618eb70a.
    at Object.InvalidConnection (C:Desktopsolidityinboxnode_modulestruffle-hdwallet-providernode_modulesweb3libweb3errors.js:28:16)
    at HttpProvider.sendAsync (C:Desktopsolidityinboxnode_modulestruffle-hdwallet-providernode_modulesweb3libweb3httpprovider.js:129:25)
    at Web3Subprovider.handleRequest (C:Desktopsolidityinboxnode_modulesweb3-provider-enginesubprovidersweb3.js:13:17)
    at next (C:Desktopsolidityinboxnode_modulesweb3-provider-engineindex.js:95:18)
    at FilterSubprovider.handleRequest (C:Desktopsolidityinboxnode_modulesweb3-provider-enginesubprovidersfilters.js:87:7)
    at next (C:Desktopsolidityinboxnode_modulesweb3-provider-engineindex.js:95:18)
    at HookedWalletSubprovider.handleRequest (C:Desktopsolidityinboxnode_modulesweb3-provider-enginesubprovidershooked-wallet.js:109:7)
    at next (C:Desktopsolidityinboxnode_modulesweb3-provider-engineindex.js:95:18)
    at Web3ProviderEngine._handleAsync (C:Desktopsolidityinboxnode_modulesweb3-provider-engineindex.js:82:3)
    at Web3ProviderEngine._fetchBlock (C:Desktopsolidityinboxnode_modulesweb3-provider-engineindex.js:191:8)
    at Web3ProviderEngine._fetchLatestBlock (C:Desktopsolidityinboxnode_modulesweb3-provider-engineindex.js:167:8)
    at Web3ProviderEngine._startPolling (C:Desktopsolidityinboxnode_modulesweb3-provider-engineindex.js:144:8)
    at Web3ProviderEngine.start (C:Desktopsolidityinboxnode_modulesweb3-provider-engineindex.js:38:8)
    at new HDWalletProvider (C:Desktopsolidityinboxnode_modulestruffle-hdwallet-providerindex.js:46:15)
    at Object.<anonymous> (C:Desktopsolidityinboxdeploy.js:6:18)
    at Module._compile (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:816:30)
    at Object.Module._extensions..js (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:827:10)
    at Module.load (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:685:32)
    at Function.Module._load (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:620:12)
    at Function.Module.runMain (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:877:12)
    at internal/main/run_main_module.js:21:11

My question would be are there any fixes for either of these issues based on my code, or is there a simpler way to deploy to the blockchain? Thank you in advance.

Answer

Error: CONNECTION ERROR: Couldn't connect to node rinkeby.infura.io/v3/acb10732334e4450ba7dc55e618eb70a.

You probably meant https://rinkeby.infura.io/... (You’re missing the https://.)