Use "npm start" as command to forever in .sh script

Question

I have a .sh script in my /etc/init-d/forever to configure how forever starts and stops my Node.js app.

I wanted to start forever with the command npm start, so I can trigger my scripts from there. Is this possible?

I tried

sudo forever start --sourceDir /home/my-app -c npm start 

but its gets wrong interpreted...

info: Forever processing file: start
error: Cannot start forever
error: script /root/start does not exist.

My script so far is:

NAME=nodeapp
SOUREC_DIR=/home/nodeapp        
COMMAND="npm start"
SOURCE_NAME=index.js
USER=root
NODE_ENVIROMENT=production

pidfile=/var/run/$NAME.pid
logfile=/var/log/$NAME.log
forever=forever

start() {
    export NODE_ENV=$NODE_ENVIROMENT
    echo "Starting $NAME node instance : "

    touch $logfile
    chown $USER $logfile

    touch $pidfile
    chown $USER $pidfile

    iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -i eth0 -p tcp --dport 80 -j REDIRECT --to-port 8080
    sudo -H -u $USER $forever start --pidFile $pidfile -l $logfile -a --sourceDir $SOUREC_DIR -c $COMMAND

    RETVAL=$?
}

Solution 1

So I found the answer.
Both --sourceDir and the path parameter after the "npm start"command where necessary:

sudo forever --sourceDir /home/my-app -c "npm start" /

Solution 2

The below command run the forever command in the background with logs in forever.

forever start -c "ng serve " ./

Note the ./

Then you can

forever list

And will be able to see the status and the location of the log file.

info:    Forever processes running
data:        uid  command                                                            script forever pid   id logfile                          uptime        
data:    [0] wOj1 ng serve                                              29500   24978    /home/user/.forever/wOj1.log 0:0:25:23.326 

Comments

[Krishnadas PC]

Log won't be written in the forever log. It will directly write to the console.