How you running NodeBB ?

epety

Which is your choose ?

Forever Daemon
Supervisor Process
Upstart
./nodebb start
or Docker

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Supervisor

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

How you running NodeBB ?

1. Create pm2.json5

2. Then pm2 start pm2.json5

2. Then `pm2 start pm2.json5`