Meteor for UDOO

Meteor is an ultra-simple environment for building modern web applications.

This project aims to get Meteor running on UDOO, including the node.js package node-udoo.

Read more about Meteor on Meteors GitHub project page, and about node-udoo on the node-udoo GitHub project page.

Step 1: Setting up the environment

1. Download and install Debian Wheezy armHF
2. Configure WiFi so that it gets connected automatically
3. (optional) Give the UDOO a fixed IP on your router
4. (optional) Assign the local IP to DMZ and assign a dynamic DNS to it
5. Enable the two network interfaces in /etc/network/interfaces. You'll probably want to install your favorite text editor (maybe vim) at this point so that you can edit the interface file. After having edited it; reboot to activate the interfaces.
6. Set the locale
7. Enable the debian testing and unstable repositories. You can probably get away with just enabling the testing repo, but I followed the instructions precisely.
8. sudo apt-get install screen (optional, but using screen makes everything easier. I recommend you run all of the following steps through screen.)
9. sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade
10. sudo apt-get install mongodb mongodb-server mongodb-clients mongodb-dev
11. sudo apt-get install nodejs npm
12. sudo ln --symbolic /usr/bin/nodejs /usr/bin/node Node.JS is installed as "nodejs" instead of the more common "node" for some reason.
13. sudo apt-get install authbind
14. sudo touch /etc/authbind/byport/80 /etc/authbind/byport/81
15. sudo chown debian:debian /etc/authbind/byport/80 /etc/authbind/byport/81
16. chmod +x /etc/authbind/byport/80 /etc/authbind/byport/81 (MongoDB will bind to one port above your HTTP port which is why we need to make 81 available)

Step 2: Building Meteor

13. sudo apt-get install git
14. cd ~ && git clone https://github.com/josteinaj/meteor-udoo.git
15. cd ~/meteor-udoo && ./scripts/generate-dev-bundle.sh without-dependencies
16. sudo ln --symbolic ~/meteor-udoo/meteor /usr/bin/meteor
17. Now you should be able to use the meteor command to your hearts content! Use authbind --deep meteor --port 80 to bind to port 80

• TODO: installing udoo npm

Step 3: Running Meteor as a daemon

18. Edit ~/meteor-udoo/run-service.sh and set PROJECT_DIR to the absolute path to your meteor project. For instance, try setting it to the meteor "docs" project.
19. Run crontab -e (as a normal user) and add * * * * * /home/debian/meteor-udoo/run-service.sh to the end of the file

Once a minute, this will check if your meteor project is running, and start it if it isn't. So if for some reason it crashes it will restart; but most importantly, it will start automatically on boot.