mpublish.sh

One command way to publish meteor application into Your private web server.

Why?

Meteor team work at very big, safe and excellent Galaxy module which isnt ready yet. This will be awesome - when it’ll be ready. mpublish.sh script is well-enough utility which make Your local meteor application running as a full-web site with one command way - and is ready for now. Simple, unsafe - just work utility - that saves a lot of your time.

Description

You can have many working application in single web server - everyone with other site domain name. For example: test1.yourserver.com, test2.yourserver2.nl etc. Every web call is managing with nginx server with proper proxy configuration. If You call test1.yourserver.com nginx transfer your connection to application working with separate port number. To make mpublish.sh work well, second script which works in server site - /etc/init.d/nodejs - manage working of every nodejs application located on your server. It makes for You proper and automated reconfiguration of nginx server.

Howto, Simplest way:

- write meteor application in your mac and go to this directory - mpublish.sh [email protected] --site=site1.your-web.org

That is as simple as it should be. You can now go in browser to site1.your-web.org and application should just works. In the background mpublish.sh:

• create and send bundle of meteor app to your server
• makes backup of existing app in server befour replacing
• convert meteor app into nodejs app
• configure nginx server to mange next proxy for you web-domain
• restart needed services to automatically make allways working

To make Your web server compatible, You have to do usual make some simple configuration steps. For Your convenience mpublish.sh have option --genconfig, is saves parameters in meteor app directory into mpublish.conf file. Follow that You can use mpublish.sh command without any parameters. If you like, mpublish.sh have simple command-line help of course (--help) and sufficient description in itself.

Howto, server configuration

mpublish.sh is created and tested for debian squeeze (6.0) server. In server You have to install nodejs, forever for nodejs, mongodb working at standard 27017 port and nginx server. You can do this with this simple way (it should be working if you copy/paste follow code into root console of your server):

#install curl
apt-get install curl

#install nginx server
cd /tmp && 
curl http://nginx.org/keys/nginx_signing.key > nginx_signing.key && 
apt-key add nginx_signing.key && 
rm nginx_signing.key && 
echo "deb http://packages.dotdeb.org squeeze all" >> /etc/apt/sources.list && 
echo "deb-src http://packages.dotdeb.org squeeze all" >> /etc/apt/sources.list && 
wget http://www.dotdeb.org/dotdeb.gpg && 
apt-key add dotdeb.gpg && 
rm -f dotdeb.gpg && 
apt-get update && 
apt-get install nginx && 
cat /etc/nginx/nginx.conf|sed 's/http {/http {\n\tmap $http_upgrade $connection_upgrade { default upgrade; ""      close; }\n/g' >/tmp/nginx.conf && 
cp -f /tmp/nginx.conf /etc/nginx/nginx.conf && 
/etc/init.d/nginx restart

#install nodejs - you can change the way of installing nodejs and get another version if you like
cd /tmp && 
curl https://nodejs.org/dist/v0.12.6/node-v0.12.6-linux-x86.tar.gz > node-v0.12.6-linux-x86.tar.gz && 
mkdir -p /opt/node  && 
tar zxf node-v0.12.6-linux-x86.tar.gz -C /opt/node/  && 
rm node-v0.12.6-linux-x86.tar.gz  && 
cd /opt/node  && 
ln -sfn node-v0.12.6-linux-x86 current

#node postrequisites
cd /usr/local/bin && 
ln -s /opt/node/current/bin/npm && 
ln -s /opt/node/current/bin/node &&
npm install -g forever

#install mongodb
apt-key adv --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv 7F0CEB10 && 
echo "deb http://repo.mongodb.org/apt/debian wheezy/mongodb-org/3.0 main" | tee && /etc/apt/sources.list.d/mongodb-org-3.0.list && 
apt-get update && 
apt-get install mongodb

#install mpublish scripts
mkdir -p /var/lib/node && 
apt-get install git &&
cd /tmp &&
git clone git://github.com/lukiies/mpublish.git && 
cd mpublish &&
cp nodejs /etc/init.d && 
chmod +x /etc/init.d/nodejs
cd /tmp &&
rm -fr mpublish

#into your local computer Copy mpublish.sh script to local computer and make this executable. Now You are ready to publish your meteor application into own private web server. enjoy :)