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Deploying a Meteor.JS app to digital ocean servers.

Posted June 6, 2014 21.1k views
Hi! I am relatively new to server side development. But I am very interested in learning how to deploy my meteor.js app to my digital ocean account. I am wondering if it would be possible to develop a step-by-step tutorial to guide me through this process? Thanks!
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asb June 6, 2014
Getting set up with Meteor.JS is simple, just run: 


curl https://install.meteor.com/ | sh

meteor create ~/my_cool_app

cd ~/my_cool_app

meteor


Now the bare bones app is running at http://your.ip.address:3000

There are a number of ways to deploy a Meteor app you developed locally. Check out:

http://docs.meteor.com/#deploying

If you create a bundle of your app with: 


meteor bundle myapp.tgz


You can copy that to a DigitalOcean droplet and extract it there. You'll need need node.js and MongoDB installed. You can then extract and run it with: 


PORT=3000 MONGO_URL=mongodb://localhost:27017/myapp node bundle/main.js


To install node.js see:

https://www.digitalocean.com/community/articles/how-to-install-node-js-on-an-ubuntu-14-04-server

To install MongoDB, see:

https://www.digitalocean.com/community/articles/how-to-install-mongodb-on-ubuntu-12-04

Let us know how it goes!
How To Install MongoDB on Ubuntu 12.04
by Etel Sverdlov
MongoDB is a document database used commonly in modern web applications. This tutorial should help you setup a virtual private server to use as a dedicated MongoDB server for a production application environment. This tutorial is written for Ubuntu 12.04.
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arunoda.susiripala June 8, 2014
Use Meteor Up[0]. It it used by many developers to deploy their Meteor app specially on DO.


[0] - https://github.com/arunoda/meteor-up
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JoshJoe July 7, 2014

You might also need this command (if you are having a problem running meteorite). Also, remember that you don’t need node or npm, just run the command that Andrew gives above (curl https://install.meteor.com/ | sh) and meteor brings in node and npm. 

export PATH=~/.meteor/tools/latest/bin:$PATH
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JoshJoe October 22, 2014

Here is a tutorial on this subject.

http://code.krister.ee/hosting-multiple-instances-of-meteor-on-digitalocean/

This article says there are issues with Ubuntu 14, but I haven’t had any trouble so I’m not sure what he is talking about.

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methodbox May 31, 2015

The above article does not work with current DO Ubuntu 14.04/Nodejs setups.

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