Moving from Plesk to Cleavr

Sites and web apps
#1

Hi guys,
I currently use Plesk for my sites but it feels a bit overkill since i don’t want all hosting functions, just be able to run sites.

I need to run Adonis 4 and Quasar 1.5. I know there is a ready to use Adonis function but i want to run it in a plain Node app and start it with pm2 with specified port and what not.

Could anyone guide me to get Adonis running. I have done all i can figure out and the deply works but adding Hook start:
cd {{ releasePath }}
#Start adding your custom script below this line
pm2 start server.js

just gives me: 502 Bad Gateway

#2

Welcome, @peterc!
If you create a nodejs app, you don’t have to worry about adding your own pm2 start hook. Our built-in activate hook will take care of it.
And is there a reason why you don’t want to run it as an Adonis4 app?

#3

@ashokgelal thank you for a quick response,
well i will run Quasar node app as well and i thought i learn how to run node apps in general.

Quasar is a bit more steps with build SSR and stuff and i don’t know if the “adonis” preconfigured is suitable för Quasar?

So far i really like your product. To be able to control different Digital Ocean droplets. But before leaving Plesk i need to get this working.

#4

I understand.

if the “adonis” preconfigured is suitable för Quasar?

I think you can make it work, it just adds some hooks that you can disable and replace with your own.

However, you should start with nodejs type and add your own hooks. I don’t know much about Quasar but I don’t see why it wouldn’t work. nodejs type uses pm2 start as well, you just have make sure of two things:

  • Add a new Build Hook and add what it takes to build app (like say npm run build --production
  • Make sure the entry point and the args are set correctly under webapp settings

Usually, when someone gets 502 it is because of the PORT address. Make sure that it is not hard coded to something like 3000. The port address is passed as an env variable so you can use something like process.env.PORT.

Check the logs of both the app as well as inspect the output of a deployment, you might get some hints on how it is not working.

We are here, if you need more help.

#5

Some progress report.

Adonis has server.js as entry file in root and i saw Canary wanted index.js. I couldn’t find where to change this so i simply renamed server.js to index.js and now it works perfect.

This looks very promising. I will try to get Quasar to run now.

I will be back with progress report.

Thank you so far.

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Canary shows 500 Error
#6

I’m glad you made it to work. Regarding Canary, it should be using the same entry point as that of the main application but you may have found a bug. We are already looking into it and will fix it right away. Thanks for your progress report and looking forward to more.

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#7

Only one issue to solve for me with Adonis and that is my uploaded files that lives in public/upload

Everytime i deploy i loose this folder since it isn’t part of git repo. I need to put this folder in root and somehow have an symbolic link added in current just like with .env file and make a hook to do this every deploy.

Any idea how i can do this?

#8

I have an idea. I’ll test it out and then create a new thread to share on. :grinning:

#9

Hey @peterc - here you go!

Hope this helps!

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#10

Fantastic, thank you so much @amiedema

The quality of the product is of course important but the competent support is really important and so far this looks very promising.

I wonder what “Clean Old Deployments” does? How many old deployments is saved in the list?

I need to remove the shared folder in previous release otherwise my server will fill upp pretty quick.

AVAILABLE VARIABLES has releasePath and i guess this is the new path during deployment but it would be great to hav access to previousReleasePath so i can remove it.

I want the shared folder only in the latest release.

Is this possible?

#11

Clean deployments will remove older deployments. Cleavr keeps the last 5 successful deployments. If you need to free up space sooner, you could SSH into the server and remove the shared folders from the older releases.

The script in the custom deployment hook will link to the folder and doesn’t copy it, so that shouldn’t create a storage issue. :slightly_smiling_face:

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#12

Oh, im getting tired. Of course, the symbolic link wont take up any space.

I’m so sorry.

#13

@amiedema hi again,
is it possible to have like {{ releasePath }}/dist/ssr/index.js in entry path?

On deploy i build the SSR app that lives in release path

#14

Not in the entry point on the webapp settings page. You can add in just dist/ssr/index.js for entry point. Release path is already part of the activation step which refers to the entry point you enter.

#15

Also, you might try adding npm in entry point and start in argument on the web app settings page.

#16

Hey @peterc -

I tried out deploying a basic Quasar SSR project. I believe you mentioned this but I overlooked what you were saying about the build process. Since building outputs the web files in dist/ssr directory, you could then add a deployment hook just before activation that moves the contents of that folder to the root directory, {{ releasePath }}, and then simply add index.js as the entry point in settings (with no args).

However, since you brought this up, we’ve been wanting to simplify setting up nodejs apps and make it more scalable for different node frameworks. So, we have something really cool that we’re just about done testing that will make this all much more simpler.

Stay tuned. It’s coming very soon. :wink:

#17

@amiedema sorry for late answer,

This is so great, works like a charm. Sweet with more Node.js options but i don’t mind solving this with my new hook:
move build to root
mv {{ releasePath }}/dist/ssr/* {{ releasePath }}

Anyway, this was the last dealbraker for me. Just som more testing and then i will move away from Plesk and jump on the Cleavr train :slight_smile:

Back int the PHP/Laravel days i used a service called Laravel Forge with similar no down time version deployment with rolback function. This works just like that and it’s super great.

With Plesk i have to manually do fetch from git, install npm uppdates, build new SSR and finally restart the Node process. If something goes wrong i have to revert changes in my codes, puch to git and do the whole process again. God this is more convenient and safe :slight_smile:

Tanks again for excellent support, can’t wait for what the Cleavr future awaits.

#18

Awesome! I’m glad that it worked for your needs and that your finding Cleaver helpful!

Let us know if you need anything else.

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#19

Hey @peterc -

We’ve released the updates to creating and deploying NodeJS app types.

For new sites, you now can now select between NodeJS SSR and NodeJS Static, add a build command, define an artifacts path, and deploy!

This makes it a bit easier for you as you won’t have to add the custom deployment hook to new Quasar web apps to move the build output artifacts into the root directory.

Here is a quick tutorial on deploying a Quasar SSR app - How to deploy a Quasar SSR app

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#20

WOW!

This is so great. Man do feel heard. Fantastic support!

So about gitrepos. I moved from GitHub to GitLab as i needed to have private repos and at that time GitHub only allowed a few private without paying.

As i understand one can have unlimited private repos now on GitHub with a free account. Is this so?

And if so i might considder moving back to GitHub so i can take adwantage of the neat build functions using GitHub.

Can you confirm that this only works on GitHub and not on GitLab?

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