Keep meteor running on amazon EC2

Question

I have a simple meteor app that I\'m running on an Amazon EC2 server. Everything is working great. I start it manually with my user via meteor in the project

Answer 1

Install forever and use a start script.

$ npm install -g forever

I have several scripts for managing my production environment - the start script looks something like:

#!/bin/bash

forever stopall

export MAIL_URL=...
export MONGO_URL=...
export MONGO_OPLOG_URL=...
export PORT=3000
export ROOT_URL=...
forever start /home/ubuntu/apps/myapp/bundle/main.js

exit 0

Conveniently, it will also append to a log file in ~/.forever which will show any errors encountered while running your app. You can get the location of the log file and other stats about your app with:

$ forever list

To get your app to start on startup, you'd need to do something appropriate for your flavor of linux. You can maybe just put the start script in /etc/rc.local. For ubuntu see this question.

Also note you really should be bundling your app if using it in production. See this comparison for more details on the differences.