Running meteor with pm2

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Hi folks, do you have any experience in running meteor with pm2. I owuld just simply want to run my meteor app on DO droplet like i run simple node servers. I found pm2-meteor - npm. But seems it is out of maintenance and provides many things i would never use. Is there any way as simple as pm2 start index.js i used to run in simple node scenarios? Thx in advance.

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Hello, we are using pm2 like this :

NVM_DIR=__deployPath__/.nvm NODE_ENV=production pm2 start bundle/main.js --name __deployName__

where deployPath is the path to your app and deployName is your app name
You can also use a file to describe all env variables and meteor settings

Regards

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Check out this link https://github.com/pkumar-uk/meteor-deploy-prod-1.12.1 for using PM2 with meteor

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Take a look at my in depth guide for running Meteor on PM2:
https://jamesloper.com/meteor-deployments-without-mup

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Iā€™m still using pm2-meteor on multiple apps, and very happy with it. Once you have the config-file which takes care of the env-vars, itā€™s a single command to deploy.

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Hi @james. Nice work. Anyways maybe you know what is the reason of error i got. Build works fine then it properly uploads, but during execution remote script i got :

0|staging  | Error: Cannot find module 'reify/lib/runtime'
0|staging  | Require stack:
0|staging  | - /home/ubuntu/staging/bundle/programs/server/runtime.js
0|staging  | - /home/ubuntu/staging/bundle/main.js
0|staging  |     at Function.Module._resolveFilename (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:815:15)
0|staging  |     at Module.Hook._require.Module.require (/usr/lib/node_modules/pm2/node_modules/require-in-the-middle/index.js:61:29)
0|staging  |     at require (internal/modules/cjs/helpers.js:74:18)
0|staging  |     at Object.<anonymous> (/home/ubuntu/staging/bundle/programs/server/runtime.js:10:3)
0|staging  |     at Object.<anonymous> (/home/ubuntu/staging/bundle/programs/server/runtime.js:53:3)
0|staging  |     at Module._compile (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:999:30)
0|staging  |     at Object.Module._extensions..js (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:1027:10)
0|staging  |     at Module.load (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:863:32)
0|staging  |     at Function.Module._load (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:708:14)
0|staging  |     at Module.require (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:887:19) {
0|staging  |   code: 'MODULE_NOT_FOUND',
0|staging  |   requireStack: [
0|staging  |     '/home/ubuntu/staging/bundle/programs/server/runtime.js',
0|staging  |     '/home/ubuntu/staging/bundle/main.js'
0|staging  |   ]
0|staging  | }
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When it comes to binaries, I think there are still some problems even with my script. For my deployment I had to add some more stuff inside remote-script.sh

echo "Installing npm packages"
cd bundle/programs/server
rm -rf node_modules/sharp/vendor
rm -rf npm/node_modules/sharp/vendor
rm -rf node_modules/mozjpeg/vendor
rm -rf npm/node_modules/mozjpeg/vendor
meteor npm install --production &> /dev/null

I looked at reify on npm and donā€™t see any reference to a bundled binary but you could maybe try this on your remote script.

echo "Installing npm packages"
cd bundle/programs/server
rm -rf node_modules/reify/vendor
rm -rf npm/node_modules/reify/vendor
meteor npm install --production &> /dev/null
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i solved it temporary by going there and manually run ā€˜npm installā€™ anyways i now see another problem that it seems to have problem with env.sh. I see now ā€œMONGO_URL must be set in environmentā€ While it is set in env.sh.
It must be something wrong with meteor it self because even if i go there and manuall run.

MONGO_URL=my_mongo_url ROOT_URL=..my_root_rl node main.js

It shows the same error. While obviously MONGO_URL is provided.
More intresting is fact that it you placesome shit in MONGO_URL like MONGO_URL=blahblah it properly tells that connection string is invalid.

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You have any special chars? Try wrapping it in quotes likeā€¦

export MONGO_URL="mongodb://app:password@db.jamesloper.com:27017/test"
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Yep this was solution. However this is definietly bug in meteor, problem should be reported properly. Anyways now it says " MongoError: setName from ismaster does not match provided connection setName [atlas-nyb1n1-shard-0] != [example-staging-shard-0]" but when i deploy using your script, kill the app and then ssh to the server and manually run it there from command line it works. Interesting. I will let know if i will find something.