AWS EC2 NodeJS, Forever, HAProxy Setup
Create an instance, I used one from here, Alestic, paste in the ami-xxxxxx value to find the one you want.
Create an security group with at least SSH and HTTP.
Save your private key and connect like:
ssh -i your_key.pem ubuntu@ec2-instance-location.amazonaws.com
Update and install the needed packages:
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install git-core g++ make curl libssl-dev
Install node, get latest url at NodeJS.org
curl -O http://nodejs.org/dist/node-v0.2.6.tar.gz
tar -xvzf node-v0.2.6.tar.gz
cd node-v0.2.6
./configure
make
sudo make install
Node Package Manager
Install Node Package Manager.
sudo chown -R $USER /usr/local/{share/man,bin,lib/node}
curl http://npmjs.org/install.sh | sh
Forever
This will be used to keep your node process running, forever. Restarting as needed. keep NodeJS running with Forever
npm install forever
HA Proxy
Quickly setup a load balanced high availability cluster
~~ global
log 127.0.0.1 local0
log 127.0.0.1 local1 notice
#log loghost local0 info
maxconn 4096
#chroot /usr/share/haproxy
user haproxy
group haproxy
daemon
#debug
#quiet
defaults
log global
mode http
option httplog
option dontlognull
retries 3
option redispatch
maxconn 2000
contimeout 5000
clitimeout 50000
srvtimeout 50000
frontend http-in
bind *:80
acl is_domain_com hdr_end(host) -i domain.red27.net
use_backend domain_com if is_domain_com
default_backend hello
backend domain_com
option httpchk HEAD /check.txt HTTP/1.0
option httpclose
option forwardfor
dispatch 127.0.0.1:8124
backend hello
option httpchk HEAD /check.txt HTTP/1.0
option httpclose
option forwardfor
dispatch 127.0.0.1:8123
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change /etc/default/haproxy
# Set ENABLED to 1 if you want the init script to start haproxy.
ENABLED=1
# Add extra flags here.
#EXTRAOPTS="-de -m 16"
Running
sudo /etc/init.d/haproxy start
sudo forever start path-to-app.js
Lastly
NOTE: don’t forget to create and EBS AMI Image so your stuff is saved.