forever is helpful function to create applications that are always running node.js to "forever". It's easy to install on your Ubuntu or Debian system, Forever is used to If the application dies, forever brings it back and running node.js scripts.
How to Install:
Let's install this using npm package and the npm should have been installed as part of Node.js.
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install git-core curl build-essential openssl libssl-dev
Install forever function using the below command,
$ sudo npm install forever --global
To start and stop the node.js using forever command,
$sudo forever start node.js
warn: --minUptime not set. Defaulting to: 1000ms
warn: --spinSleepTime not set. Your script will exit if it does not stay up for at least 1000ms
info: Forever processing file: node.js
$ sudo forever stop node.js
info: Forever stopped process:
uid command script forever pid id logfile uptime
[0] v2oC /usr/bin/nodejs node.js 1979 1984 /root/.forever/v2oC.log 5:0:11:35.930
Installing forever doe snot work. Are there sane instructios for nodejs, npm and forever that work reliably? I do NOT wish to generate BASH commands to run blindly as root.
This is I have posted for temporary, you can configure the Node.js and runs as service.