An upstart script for ghost on Ubuntu 13.10

ghost_upstart.conf

#!upstart
  2 #
  3 # An example upstart script for running a Node.js process as a service
  4 # using Forever as the process monitor. For more configuration options
  5 # associated with Forever, see: https://github.com/nodejitsu/forever
  6 #
  7 # You will need to set the environment variables noted below to conform to
  8 # your use case, and should change the description.
  9 #
 10 description "Example upstart script for a Node.js process"
 11
 12 start on startup
 13 stop on shutdown
 14
 15 # This line is needed so that Upstart reports the pid of the Node.js process
 16 # started by Forever rather than Forever's pid.
 17 expect fork
 18
 19 env NODE_BIN_DIR="/usr/bin/nodejs"
 20 env NODE_PATH="/usr/local/lib/node_modules"
 21 env APPLICATION_DIRECTORY="/data/apps/ghost"
 22 env APPLICATION_START="index.js"
 23 env LOG="/var/log/node-canuckistani-ghost.log"
 24 env NODE_ENV=production
 25
 26 export NODE_ENV=production
 27
 28 script
 29     # Add the node executables to the path, which includes Forever if it is
 30     # installed globally, which it should be.
 31     PATH=$NODE_BIN_DIR:$PATH
 32     # The minUptime and spinSleepTime settings stop Forever from thrashing if
 33     # the application fails immediately on launch. This is generally necessary to
 34     # avoid loading development servers to the point of failure every time
 35     # someone makes an error in application initialization code, or bringing down
 36     # production servers the same way if a database or other critical service
 37     # suddenly becomes inaccessible.
 38     cd $APPLICATION_DIRECTORY && NODE_ENV=production exec forever --sourceDir $APPLICATION_DIRECTORY -a -l $LO    G \
 39          --minUptime 5000 --spinSleepTime 2000 start $APPLICATION_START
 40 end script
 41
 42 pre-stop script
 43     # Add the node executables to the path.
 44     PATH=$NODE_BIN_DIR:$PATH
 45     # Here we're using the pre-stop script to stop the Node.js application
 46     # process so that Forever is given a chance to do its thing and tidy up
 47     # its data. Note that doing it this way means that each application that
 48     # runs under Forever must have a different start file name, regardless of
 49     # which directory it is in.
 50     exec forever stop $APPLICATION_START >> $LOG
 51 end script