How to deploy a meteor application to my own server?

Question

How to deploy a meteor application to my own server?

flavour 1: the development and deployment server are the same;

flavour 2: the development server is one

Answer 1

I had a lot of trouble with meteor up, so I decided writing my own deploy script. I also added additional info how to set up nginx or mongodb. Hope it helps!

See /sh folder in repository

What the script meteor-deploy.sh does:

1. Select environment (./meteor-deploy.sh for staging, ./meteor-deploy.sh prod for production)
2. Build and bundle production version of the meteor app
3. Copy bundle to server
4. SSH into server
5. Do a mongodump to backup database
6. Stop the running app
7. Unpack bundle
8. Overwrite app files
9. Re-install app node package dependencies
10. Start the app (uses forever)

Tested for the following server configurations:

• Ubuntu 14.04.4 LTS
• meteor --version 1.3.2.4
• node --version v0.10.41
• npm --version 3.10.3