Deploy Meteor + Phusion Passenger + nginx

deploy.sh

#!/bin/bash
rsync -auhiP -e 'ssh -p {sshPort}' /path/to/app/myApp.tar.gz  user@host:/home/meteoruser/

myApp.conf

# inside /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/
server {
  listen 80;
  listen [::]:80;
  server_name example.com;

  root /var/www/myApp/public;

  passenger_startup_file main.js;
  passenger_sticky_sessions on;

  #passenger_env_var MAIL_URL smtp://....;
  passenger_env_var MONGO_URL mongodb://localhost:27017;
  #passenger_env_var MONGO_OPLOG_URL mongodb://...;
  passenger_env_var ROOT_URL http://example.com;
  #passenger_env_var METEOR_SETTINGS '{...}';
  #passenger_env_var DDP_DEFAULT_CONNECTION_URL http://example.com;

  include /etc/nginx/passenger.conf;
  
  location ~ ^/sockjs/ {
    keepalive_requests 1024;
    keepalive_timeout  900s;
  }
}

nginx.conf

user www-data;
worker_processes {numberOfCPUCores};
worker_rlimit_nofile 65536;
pid /run/nginx.pid;

events {
  worker_connections {65536/numberOfCPUCores};
  multi_accept       on;
  use                epoll;
}

http {
  access_log              off;
  server_name_in_redirect off;
  server_tokens           off;
  ignore_invalid_headers  on;

  autoindex           off;
  sendfile            on;
  tcp_nopush          on;
  tcp_nodelay         on;

  types_hash_max_size 2048;

  keepalive_requests  128;
  reset_timedout_connection on;

  include /etc/nginx/mime.types;
  default_type application/octet-stream;

  charset utf-8;
  override_charset off;
  charset_types text/css text/plain text/vnd.wap.wml application/javascript application/json application/rss+xml application/xml;

  access_log /var/log/nginx/access.log;
  error_log /var/log/nginx/error.log;

  passenger_root /usr/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/phusion_passenger/locations.ini;
  passenger_ruby /usr/bin/passenger_free_ruby;
  passenger_show_version_in_header off;
  passenger_max_request_queue_size 512;

  include /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/*;
}

passenger.conf

passenger_enabled on;
passenger_app_type node;
passenger_friendly_error_pages off;

unpack.sh

#!/bin/bash
tar -xvf myApp.tar.gz
rm myApp.tar.gz

mkdir -p ./bundle/public

cp ./bundle/programs/web.browser/*.css ./bundle/public/
cp ./bundle/programs/web.browser/*.js ./bundle/public/
cp -R ./bundle/programs/web.browser/app/* ./bundle/public/

chown -R meteoruser:meteoruser ./bundle

cd ./bundle/programs/server
su -s /bin/bash -c 'npm install --production' meteoruser
cd ../../../

rm -Rf /var/www/myApp/public/* /var/www/myApp/programs/web.browser/*
rm /var/www/myApp/public/*.js /var/www/myApp/public/*.css
rsync -azuhiP ./bundle/ /var/www/myApp

chown -R meteoruser:meteoruser /var/www/myApp
chmod -R 744 /var/www/myApp
chmod 755 /var/www/myApp
chmod -R 755 /var/www/myApp/public
rm -Rf ./bundle

passenger-config restart-app /var/www/myApp
passenger-status -v
tail -n 100 -f /var/log/nginx/error.log

Thank you for this!

How does this work with ssl? I get my certs using letsencrypt.

hey
I tried this approach, But i found mupx-letsencrypt and use it now, because it just works.
Thanks a lot for you help!! 👍

@FinnFrotscher
Somewhy I haven't been notified about your comments.

Glad you found a way to use SSL with MUPX

letsencrypt has expressive docs for nginx on their project page