How to deploy my meteor app on Digital Ocean Droplet - meteor

Question

I have a a simple meteor 1.0 app that I want to deploy on my Digital Ocean Droplet. I can access this Droplet using ssh.
How can I deploy this app? Is there anything I should install and what are the settings I should use on my Droplet?

Answer 1

I've used arunoda's solution to deploy to my DO Droplet
https://github.com/arunoda/meteor-up
As in the docs after installing the module you'll get the mup command
You can find the detail documentation on how to deploy here
https://meteorhacks.com/deploy-a-meteor-app-into-a-server-or-a-vm.html

Answer 2

All the solution I found were not working well with Ubuntu 10.04. An easy solution is to simply write a bash script to send the code on the remote server and reload the meteor application:
Share a public key between your development environment and the remote server (How tohere)
Create the following script file (myscript.sh) with the following instructions in it (make sure you edit the variables in the header!):
myscript.sh:
#!/bin/bash
#*************** ONLY EDIT THIS PART
SERVER='<SERVER_IP>'
PORT='22'
USERNAME="root"
PROJECT_NAME="<PROJECT_FOLDER_NAME>"
DESTINATION_PATH="</home/any_user/projects>"
ORIGIN_PATH="</home/any_user/projects/project_folder_name>"
COPY_METEOR_PACKAGES=FALSE
#******************
echo ""
echo "Deployment on $USERNAME#$SERVER:$PORT:$DESTINATION_PATH"
echo "Make sure to have a public key on the server! http://www.linuxproblem.org/art_9.html"
echo ""
#copy the files
if $COPY_METEOR_PACKAGES==true; then
echo "Copy packages"
scp -P $PORT -r $ORIGIN_PATH $USERNAME#$SERVER:$DESTINATION_PATH
else
echo "Do not copy packages"
scp -P $PORT -r $ORIGIN_PATH/client $USERNAME#$SERVER:$DESTINATION_PATH
scp -P $PORT -r $ORIGIN_PATH/common $USERNAME#$SERVER:$DESTINATION_PATH
scp -P $PORT -r $ORIGIN_PATH/lib $USERNAME#$SERVER:$DESTINATION_PATH
scp -P $PORT -r $ORIGIN_PATH/public $USERNAME#$SERVER:$DESTINATION_PATH
scp -P $PORT -r $ORIGIN_PATH/server $USERNAME#$SERVER:$DESTINATION_PATH
fi
# reload meteor
ssh $USERNAME#$SERVER bash -c "'
cd $DESTINATION_PATH/$PROJECT_NAME
meteor
exit
'"
Useful info here:
Just run the script using the following command in your development console:
sh myscript.sh
Et voila! When you run this script, it will copy the files and the packages (no need to transfer all the time) to the remote server of your choice using the SSH protocol and it restart the server in case it has crashed (it shouldn't but it was the case for me).