NodeJS, Forever, and Upstart (Ubuntu)

node-forever-upstart.conf

#!upstart

start on filesystem and started networking
stop on shutdown

expect fork

setuid ubuntu
env HOME="/home/ubuntu"

env NODE_ENV="production"
env MIN_UPTIME="5000"
env SPIN_SLEEP_TIME="2000"

chdir /home/ubuntu/myapp
env APP_EXEC="bin/www"
env UID="myapp"

script
    exec forever --uid="$UID" -a --minUptime=$MIN_UPTIME --spinSleepTime=$SPIN_SLEEP_TIME start $APP_EXEC
end script

pre-stop script
    exec forever stop "$UID"
end script

Place in /etc/init and make sure it is executable.

To start/stop, use sudo start name_of_file_without_conf and sudo stop name_of_file_without_conf

For anybody using this script, the quotation marks in "$UID" are quite mandatory because otherwise forever will treat it as file name and not as UID. Just so you don’t make the same mistake.

Does this script automatically respawn forever ?

thanks for this interesting code but using UID is deprecated referring to documentation https://github.com/foreverjs/forever
for other solution check this thread http://stackoverflow.com/questions/13385029/automatically-start-forever-node-on-system-restart