How you running NodeBB ?

[agusputra]

I'm using pm2

[a_5mith]

./nodebb start then updown.io looking for loader.js every 30 seconds to monitor uptime and alert me when its down. Could probably hook that into an IFTTT script that starts nodebb again. But, for now my site goes down when I shut it down. So not very necessary.

[wellenreiter]

./nodebb start only. It's pretty stable

[Scuzz]

I've used ./nodebb start ever since it was introduced. We have no issues with it.

[julian]

Glad to hear ./nodebb start is working well

[JaredBusch]

I just use ./nodebb start also. Never had a need to touch it otherwise.

[Apxukoc]

[root@admin ~]# cat /etc/systemd/system/nodebb.service
[Unit]
Description=NodeBB Forum platform
After=system.slice multi-user.target

[Service]
Type=simple
User=node

StandardOutput=syslog
StandardError=syslog
SyslogIdentifier=node
SyslogFacility=local0

WorkingDirectory=/home/node/forum/
ExecStart=/bin/node app.js
Restart=always

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target
[root@admin ~]#

[root@admin ~]# uname -a
Linux localdomain 3.10.0-042stab112.15 #1 SMP Tue Oct 20 17:22:56 2015 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
[root@admin ~]#
service nodebb start
service nodebb restart
systemctl enable nodebb.service

[julian]

@Apxukoc Ah, but then you can't use the reload/restart buttons in the ACP

Have you tried changing the executable to run node loader.js --no-daemon --no-silent?

[Apxukoc]

@julian
I write through Google Translate, sorry.
I needed a script run at boot time, I got it
The only thing you surely noticed that there will be no check to verify the process. But such monitoring I solved by Zabbix

[SuperMike]

@agusputra I am trying to use pm2 as well.

But when I tried start nodebb in pm2

pm2 start loader.js --name nodebb

error will be in pm2 console

PM2: 2015-12-15 14:26:54: Starting execution sequence in -fork mode- for app name:nodebb id:2
PM2: 2015-12-15 14:26:54: App name:nodebb id:2 online
PM2: 2015-12-15 14:26:55: App name:nodebb id:2 exited with code 0

Could you please tell me how to start nodebb in pm2?

[agusputra]

@SuperMike I'm just using pm2 to start nodebb shell script.

1. Create pm2.json5

{
  apps : [
    {
      name: "MyForumApp",
      script: "nodebb",
      args: "start"
    }
  ]
}

2. Then pm2 start pm2.json5

[julian]

@Apxukoc I am using Ubuntu 15.10 now on my laptop, so I'll need to figure out a systemd script too

Might just use yours..

[giantkingsquid]

@agusputra How do you stop NodeBB using your method?

If i do pm2 stop MyForumApp the pm2 list has a big red Stopped on it but I can still access the forum. If I then do ./nodebb stop it actually stops it.

[agusputra]

@giantkingsquid Yes, I do ./nodebb stop

[Kalbaskin]

I use: ./nodebb start

[Jared14406]

Hmm intresting

[zerefel]

./nodebb start works like a charm and I've never had a problem with it.

[Jared14406]

Well it's /nodebb start or /nodebb stop to stop it

[whitts]

Stuck on windows (company VMs) so at first tried to setup NodeBB with NSSM.. Seemed to work fine until the forum crashed and then i ended up with multiple process running (repeat a few crashes and i had so many instances running that everything slowed down).. Now running with nodebb start from a batch file and everything is running great

[vladius]

My take on the systemd unit for the Debian Jessie platform. Requires a nodebb user set up and NodeBB installed to /var/nodebb:

[Unit]
Description=NodeBB forum for Node.js.
Documentation=http://nodebb.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
After=system.slice multi-user.target

[Service]
Type=simple
User=nodebb

StandardOutput=syslog
StandardError=syslog
SyslogIdentifier=nodebb

Environment=NODE_ENV=production
WorkingDirectory=/var/nodebb
ExecStart=/usr/bin/node loader.js --no-daemon --no-silent
Restart=always

[Install]
Alias=forum
WantedBy=multi-user.target

Enable with sudo systemctl enable nodebb.service and start with sudo systemctl start nodebb.service.
Thanks to @Apxukoc and @julian for the original unit and tips.