meteor_webfaction

Works with Meteor 1.3!

Instructions for deploying Meteor site to Webfaction hosting

Thanks go out to Racing Tadpole for this post http://racingtadpole.com/blog/meteor-mongodb-webfaction/ which helped me immensely in figuring out deploying on Webfaction.

These instructions update the process with meteor build <app>.

Install Mongodb app and note port

(mongodb-linux-x86_64-rhel62-3.0.7 is the version I used per Webfaction support)

Use your version for all commands where appropriate.

Setup Mongodb as per instructions on Webfaction

In an SSH session: Run mongod as daemon using Fork (https://docs.mongodb.org/manual/tutorial/manage-mongodb-processes/)

In another SSH session:

$HOME/webapps/mongodb_app_name/mongodb_version/bin/mongo localhost:mongo_port/admin

Create a user with at least ReadWrite on a new db for your app Don't use admin db as suggested elsewhere. See mongodb documention, but basically it is

use db_name

db.create({user: "user_name", pwd: "password, roles: [ { role: "roleName", db: "dbName" }]})

Install Node.js app using 0.10.xx (Meteor's base supported version) and note port

Upgrade Node.js to Meteor currently supported version per instructions on Webfaction

meteor build <app> in your Meteor app's folder then upload the result tar file to $HOME/webapps/meteor_application_name

open an SSH session to Webfaction then

cd $HOME/webapps/meteor_application_name

tar -xzf meteor_application_name.tar.gz that you uploaded

cd bundle

(cd programs/server && npm install)

Edit the included start and stop files in this repo replacing the app_names, ports, user_name, password and your_app_url with your own. This was the hardest part to get working, so enjoy!

Replace your $HOME/webapps/meteor_app_name/bin start and stop files with your edited versions.

From a new SSH session:

cd $HOME/webapps/meteor_app_name

./bin/stop

./bin/start

Test your site.