Node.js installation and setup

After that you should enter node.js configuration page. You need to copy contents of "Suggested configuration" field, to create a sites/all/modules/nodejs/nodejs.config.js file and to paste the copied settings there.

That is all, node.js platform is configured. To check whether it works you need to enable the "Nodejs Watchdog" module, which is included to the module’s Node.js integration package.

Not to type the same command a lot of times we can run ‘node server.js' in the background mode using forever package. Forever is able to manage the background processes: it can restart them after failure; redirect standard errors to the log files; and perform other useful functions. So you should install it on the server:

$ sudo npm install -g forever

Now you need to write 'forever start server.js' instead of 'node server.js'. To stop it you should execute 'forever stop server.js' function. You can also use 'forever list' to check what processes are running through forever.

To make node.js run automatically after system’s boot/reboot, you should create the init script in /etc/init.d/ directory.

In our case the script looks like this:

set -e
PATH=/usr/local/bin:/bin/usr:/bin:/sbin/:/usr/sbin
DAEMON=/var/www/node.loc/sites/all/modules/nodejs/server.js
case "$1" in
    start)
        forever start $DAEMON
        ;;
    stop)
        forever stop $DAEMON 
        ;;
    force-reload|restart)
      forever restart $DAEMON;;
    *) echo "Usage: /etc/init.d/node {start|stop|restart|force-reload}"
      exit 1
      ;;
esac
exit 0

That's it. Node.js setup is completed.