How can I automatically start a node.js application in Amazon Linux AMI on aws?

Question

Is there a brief guide to explain how to start up a application when the instance starts up and running? If it were one of the services installed through yum th

Answer 1

Quick solution for you would be to start your app from /etc/rc.local ; just add your command there.

But if you want to go the elegant way, you'll have to package your application in a rpm file, have a startup script that goes in /etc/rc.d so that you can use chkconfig on your app, then install the rpm on your instance.

Maybe this or this help. (or just google for "creating rpm packages")