Woes of using an outdated supervisord to run a node.js app (ghost)

The Situation I wanted to run my ghost blog using supervisord. I decided to install supervisord by using yum. The result was pretty bad as it turned out that the version that I installed was waaayyyy behind, which caused so many problems. To install it properly check out these instructions. This is an account of…

Running a Node.js app (ghost) in the background continuously with Supervisor (Supervisord)

Pre-requisites Root access to your server or have access to an account that has sudo powers on your servers – Instructions here. nodejs and npm installed – Instructions here. ghost installed and a ghost user made to run ghost – Instructions here. What is supervisor From the official supervisor page, Supervisor is a client/server system…

Switching from root to ghost user; forever and database permissions issue

The situation You’ve installed ghost on your server (in my case centos) You’ve installed forever You’re running ghost through forever as root. The only problem is you don’t want to run it as root as it is not a good idea to be running ghost, or any public app as root or with root priveleges.…

Running a Node.js app (ghost) with forever and crontab on linux (CentOS)

Pre-requisites Root access to your server or have access to an account that has sudo powers on your servers – Instructions here to see how to give a linux user sudo powers. nodejs and npm installed – Instructions here. ghost installed and a ghost user made to run ghost – Instructions here What is forever…