Moving Meteor installation

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Hi all,

You can’t just copy and paste a Meteor folder. I find myself having to Meteor create --bare and then copy/paste my files in, and transport the ./meteor/packages over.

Then it works.

But I really just want to copy paste Meteor projects, why is this failing? Any tips? (Restructuring dev->production server)

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Maybe move via the CLI?

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Just write a bash shell script to automate such commands … believe me everything can be done from a script

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It’s right, because .meteor folder is specific to this project in this path. If you move path, many files need change to.
Solution: move your source code only. Ever.

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Its the same project, he just wants to move it to another location in the file structure…

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If you don’t need of local database, you can move and delete .meteor/local folder.

But, if you need local database, move and delete .meteor folder/local. Start app and stop immediately after. Then, get subfolder .meteor/local/db in older path and overwrite in new folder. I think that this is work fine.

Suggest: use some source-code repository and mongodb external. Thus, your app is movable easy. :wink:

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What errors are you getting when you move a project?

I do this all the time so it’s definitely supposed to work

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So I can just

cp -R myMeteorProject /var/www/somewhere/else

cd /var/www/somewhere/else

meteor

And it should popup on localhost:3000?

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There’s a lot that’s confusing here, but first… Yes you should be able to use cp or mv and end up with the destination being a runnable Meteor project.

Addressing the confusion: Are you trying to copy the project to /var/www and then run it as a production app via the Meteor command?

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Yes

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I’m running everything on Apache reverse proxy, I have PHP projects along side Meteor projects. I’m trying to entirely KILL php. It is eww. I do everything in Meteor now.

I’m also self hosting now. So moving stuff around and making production scripts and what not. But yes, I’m running meteor projects in /var/www/mymeteorproject.com/www/_________

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Actually, if you have files uploaded in that folder that have their full path stored in the db, that path will be wrong after moving (ie. Meteor-Files default storage). That’s the only thing I can think of though