Meteor deploying to a VM by installing meteor

Question

I was wondering, if I\'m deploying a Meteor app to a VM, why can\'t I just install Meteor on the vm, and run my app with the meteor run command? The deployment section of the d

Answer 1

Your idea would work fine. However, I would just suggest that if you are going to use this you might as well run in in a more "production" type of environment. And it is pretty easy to setup.

On a high level here is what you will need:

1. Need to install Node 0.8.x
2. Need to install MongoDB
3. Follow the directions here for deploying. These just got updated for Meteor 0.5.5 so just be aware of that.
4. Need to install forever node.js package

To make my life easier I created a script to handle starting/stopping my meteor app. It will set everything up to use the full MongoDB:

#!/bin/bash

SUCCESS=0
FAILURE=1

if [ $# -ne 1 ]
then
  echo "Usage: start|stop|restart"
  exit $FAILURE
fi

case "$1" in
    start )
        export MONGO_URL=mongodb://localhost:27017/
        export PORT=3000
        export ROOT_URL=http://yourhostname.com:3000
        forever start bundle/main.js 
        ;;

    stop )
        forever stop bundle/main.js
        ;;

    restart )
        forever restart bundle/main.js
        ;;

esac