Woes of using an outdated supervisord to run a node.js app (ghost)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