Ubuntu Upstart Configuration for Node.js Forever

console-admin-server.upstart.conf

author "hezhiqiang"
description "Console Admin Server"

start on runlevel [2345]
stop on starting rc RUNLEVEL=[016]

expect fork

env NODE_BIN_DIR="/usr/local/bin"
env NODE_PATH="/usr/local/lib/node_modules"
env APPLICATION_PATH="/root/console-admin-server/app.js"
env PIDFILE="/var/run/console-admin-server.pid"
env LOG="/var/log/console-admin-server.log"
env MIN_UPTIME="5000"
env SPIN_SLEEP_TIME="2000"

script
    # Add the node executables to the path, which includes Forever if it is
    # installed globally, which it should be.
    PATH=$NODE_BIN_DIR:$PATH
    # The minUptime and spinSleepTime settings stop Forever from thrashing if
    # the application fails immediately on launch. This is generally necessary
    # to avoid loading development servers to the point of failure every time
    # someone makes an error in application initialization code, or bringing
    # down production servers the same way if a database or other critical
    # service suddenly becomes inaccessible.
    exec forever \
      --pidFile $PIDFILE \
      -a \
      -l $LOG \
      --minUptime $MIN_UPTIME \
      --spinSleepTime $SPIN_SLEEP_TIME \
      start $APPLICATION_PATH
end script


pre-start script
    # Date format same as (new Date()).toISOString() for consistency
    echo "[`date -u +%Y-%m-%dT%T.%3NZ`] (sys) Starting" >> "$LOG"
end script

pre-stop script
    rm $PIDFILE
    forever stop $APPLICATION_PATH
    echo "[`date -u +%Y-%m-%dT%T.%3NZ`] (sys) Stopping" >> "$LOG"
end script