Guide: How to Deploy Meteor / Telescope on Centos
- Qasim Zee
- Dec 30, 2014
- 4 min read
Deploying meteor or telescope can be tricky sometimes especially when it comes to centos support. Here are the steps I am following to deploy my meteor app.
Development Environment:
OSX
Production Environment:
Linode 1GB
Centos 7
Apache
Software Stack on production:
Mongo DB
Node.js 0.10.35
NodeJS “Forever” module to start application in the background
I am not using NGINX as most of the people suggest as I already have a lot of applications running on Apache.
Just make sure that all the development libraries are available:
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yum
update
yum
groupinstall
"Development Tools"
Install Node.js
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wget
http
:
/
/
nodejs
.org
/
dist
/
v0
.
10.35
/
node
-
v0
.
10.35.tar.gz
tar
xvfz
node
-
v0
.
10.35.tar.gz
cd
node
-
v0
.
10.35
.
/
configure
make
sudo
make
install
Install MongoDB
Create a /etc/yum.repos.d/mongodb.repo file to hold the following configuration information for the MongoDB repository:
For 64 bit:
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[
mongodb
]
name
=
MongoDB
Repository
baseurl
=
http
:
/
/
downloads
-
distro
.mongodb
.org
/
repo
/
redhat
/
os
/
x86_64
/
gpgcheck
=
0
enabled
=
1
For 32 bit:
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[
mongodb
]
name
=
MongoDB
Repository
baseurl
=
http
:
/
/
downloads
-
distro
.mongodb
.org
/
repo
/
redhat
/
os
/
i686
/
gpgcheck
=
0
enabled
=
1
And:
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yum
install
mongo
-
10gen
mongo
-
10gen
-
server
The server setup is done. Please don’t need that you don’t need to install meteor or telescope in your production environment.
Package your app
On your local (development) machine, go to your meteor / telescope app directory and enter the following command:
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meteor
build
--
directory
yourapp_prod
It will build a new directory in your app directory named “yourapp_prod” It contains the bundle of your app. Compress yourapp_prod and upload to your servers home directory.
Push app to server
Make sure the port is free. If it is not free, you can use 3000 instead of 8080. Uncompress the file in your server’s /home directory and try start your app in the following series of commands:
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cd
yourapp_prod
/
bundle
/
programs
/
server
export
PORT
=
8080
export
MONGO_URL
=
mongodb
:
/
/
localhost
:
27017
/
yourapp_db
export
ROOT_URL
=
http
:
/
/
yourapp_domain
/
npm
install
cd
.
.
/
.
.
/
.
.
/
node
bundle
/
main
.js
It might give the following error that I am not sure about: /home/yourapp_prod/bundle/programs/server/node_modules/fibers/future.js:173throw(ex);^Error: /home/yourapp_prod/bundle/programs/server/npm/npm-bcrypt/node_modules/bcrypt/build/Release/bcrypt_lib.node: invalid ELF headerat Module.load (module.js:356:32)at Function.Module._load (module.js:312:12)at Module.require (module.js:364:17)at require (module.js:380:17)at bindings (/home/yourapp_prod/bundle/programs/server/npm/npm-bcrypt/node_modules/bcrypt/node_modules/bindings/bindings.js:74:15)at Object.<anonymous> (/home/yourapp_prod/bundle/programs/server/npm/npm-bcrypt/node_modules/bcrypt/bcrypt.js:1:97)at Module._compile (module.js:456:26)at Object.Module._extensions..js (module.js:474:10)at Module.load (module.js:356:32)at Function.Module._load (module.js:312:12)
But there is a fix for that:
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cd
/
home
/
yourapp_prod
/
bundle
/
programs
/
server
npm
install
bcrypt
cp
-
r
/
home
/
yourapp_prod
/
bundle
/
programs
/
server
/
node_modules
/
bcrypt
/
home
/
yourapp_prod
/
bundle
/
programs
/
server
/
npm
/
npm
-
bcrypt
/
node_modules
/
Let’s try to run the app again:
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cd
/
home
/
yourapp_prod
node
bundle
/
main
.
js
It should work ok now. Try to enter http://yourapp_domain:8080/ in the browser and it should work.
But the problem is if you quit your terminal, your app will stop working. You can install node “forever” module to run your app in the background.
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npm
-
g
install
forever
forever
start
yourapp_prod
/
bundle
/
main
.
js
But you don’t want to make it work with http://yourapp_domain:8080/, you want to make it work with http://yourapp_domain/
You can configure a reverse proxy in your apache configuration. In case of Centos 7, you need to create some file like /etc/httpd/conf.d/yourapp_domain.conf. The contents of the file will be something like:
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<VirtualHost
*
:
>
ServerName yourapp_domain
ProxyRequests off
<Proxy
*
>
Order deny,allow
Allow from all
</Proxy>
<Location
/>
ProxyPass http://localhost:8080/
ProxyPassReverse http://localhost:8080/
</Location>
</VirtualHost>
In my case, the app is running at port 8080, you can change the port number accordingly.
Restart apache now and your are DONE.
If you want more support or want to hire me, feel free to write in comments on write me directly at ping@qasimzeeshan.com
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