How to run meteor on startup on Ubuntu server

Question

I learn meteorjs and I have a small remote VPS.

I want:

1. Set auto pulling from git repository my meteor project.
2. Put script into auto start which r

Answer 1

Here is what I do:

description "meteor app server"
start on runlevel [2345]
stop on runlevel [06]
respawn
respawn limit 10 5
pre-start script
   set -e
   rm -f /path/to/your/app/.meteor/local/db/mongod.lock
end script
exec /bin/su - ec2-user -c '/path/to/your/app/meteor_server.sh'
post-stop script
    pkill -f meteor
end script

The meteor_server.sh script contains:

cd /path/to/your/app/; meteor run -p 3000 --production

Make sure to chmod +x the meteor_server.sh script and change the path to your app in the 3 locations. The script also kills all meteor tasks when it is stopped so it works for running a single meteor app only on your server. I got a meteor app running quickly this way using nginx but node seems to consume a lot of memory.

Answer 2

This is my meteorjs.conf file - works fine. I had all described issues before, but this variant fix them. Hope it helps somebody :)

All EXPORT variables I got by printenv

# meteorjs - meteorjs job file

description "MeteorJS"
author "Alex Babichev"

# When to start the service
start on runlevel [2345]

# When to stop the service
stop on runlevel [016]

# Automatically restart process if crashed
respawn

# Essentially lets upstart know the process will detach itself to the background
expect fork

chdir /home/dev/www/test

script

export MONGO_URL=mongodb://localhost:27017/meteor
export PATH=/opt/local/bin:/opt/local/sbin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin
export PWD=/home/sputnik
export NODE_PATH=/usr/lib/nodejs:/usr/lib/node_modules:/usr/share/javascript
export HOME=/home/sputnik

echo "---- start ----"
cd /home/dev/www/test
exec mrt

end script

Answer 3

You should use Ubuntu way, which is Upstart:

http://upstart.ubuntu.com/ http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/lucid/man5/init.5.html

How to define daemon job:

http://newcome.wordpress.com/2012/02/26/running-programs-as-linux-daemons-using-upstart/

Hope it helps :)

Your upstart file would be more or less:

# meteorjs - meteorjs job file

description "MeteorJS"
author "Igor S"

# When to start the service
start on runlevel [2345]

# When to stop the service
stop on runlevel [016]

# Automatically restart process if crashed
respawn

# Essentially lets upstart know the process will detach itself to the background
expect fork

# Run before process
pre-start script
        cd PATH_TO_METEOR_APP
        echo ""
end script

# Start the process
exec meteor run -p 80 --help -- production