After leaving NodeJS about 6 month, I still hard to find articles who explain how to running NodeJS services in production mode. This is mean, running NodeJS services by user permission (not by root) and can automatically restart if crashed. Well, this is not only for NodeJS cases, but you can also implement this solution for running Twisted services.
I use Ubuntu 12.04 Precise Pangolin at this guide. Don’t worry, it’s doesn’t have a big difference step with previous Ubuntu version. So, let start!
1. Install Runit
1 | sudo apt-get install runit |
2. Install NodeJS
I strongly suggest to install NodeJS without root permission. For guide, please have a look to my another tutorial in :
3. Configure runit
1 2 3 | sudo chown ubuntu:ubuntu /etc/sv cd /etc/sv && mkdir nodejs cd nodejs && touch run |
Now, we will edit “run” file by :
1 2 3 | #!/bin/sh exec 2>&1 exec chpst -U ubuntu:ubuntu runsvdir /home/ubuntu/service |
So, what we doing is we will tell runit where the services that will be executed. At this example, i use “ubuntu” as my user. You can change it by your username.
Now, we try to create “service” folder in “/home/
1 2 3 | cd ~/ mkdir service && mkdir nodejs cd nodejs && touch run |
Then, we will edit “run” file to running our NodeJS application :
1 2 | #!/bin/sh exec sudo -i -u ubuntu /home/ubuntu/local/node/bin/node /var/yodi/obrool.com/app.js |
At this example, I will run “node /location/myapp/
Final steps, we just make symlinks from sv to services by :
1 2 3 | sudo ln -s /etc/sv/nodejs /etc/service/ sudo chown -R ubuntu:ubuntu /etc/service/nodejs sudo chown -R ubuntu:ubuntu /etc/sv/nodejs |
Let’s run it by :
1 | sv start nodejs |
If you check using “ps aux | grep node”
1 2 3 4 5 | root 17932 0.0 0.0 164 4 ? Ss 13:16 0:00 runsv nodejs root 17934 0.0 0.0 164 4 ? S 13:16 0:00 runsv nodejs root 17935 0.0 0.1 18996 1212 ? S 13:16 0:00 sudo -i -u ubuntu /home/ubuntu/local/node/bin/node /var/yodi/obrool.com/app.js ubuntu 17936 0.2 1.4 642256 15180 ? Sl 13:16 0:02 /home/ubuntu/local/node/bin/node /var/yodi/obrool.com/app.js ubuntu 18051 0.0 0.0 7964 876 pts/0 S+ 13:35 0:00 grep –color=auto node |
Yes, now NodeJS running by user “ubuntu” in pid 17936. It’s works!