Deploy node app with http-server and forever

Question

I want to use http-server and forever.js to deploy my app to remote ubuntu server. But forever.js requires path to JS file, not to executable. So I can\'t pass keys to http-serv

Answer 1

I had the same issue. Found a node.js script that can run shell commands and used it to run the http-server command along with options.

example of node.js script named 'startserver.js':

var sys = require('sys')
var exec = require('child_process').exec;
function puts(error, stdout, stderr) { sys.puts(stdout) }
exec("sudo http-server -a ec2-xx-xxx-xxx-xx.compute-1.amazonaws.com -p 80", puts);

Then you can run it using forever:

forever start startserver.js