Permission denied / Verbose mode

[cunneen]

Hi, I'm unable to get this working on ubuntu 16.04.

First I got "permission denied" errors for creating the destination folders on the server:

ERROR: mkdir: cannot create directory ‘/opt/pm2-meteor’: Permission denied

Then after creating that manually I got "permission denied" for the subfolders:

ERROR: mkdir: cannot create directory ‘/opt/pm2-meteor/my-app’: Permission denied

(and again for the backups folder).

After creating all those folders manually (as the user I've told pm2-meteor to use), I now just get "Permission denied" without any information about what it's trying to get permission for.

$ pm2-meteor deploy
Building your app and deploying to host machine //Users/me/Documents/Development/my-app/.pm2_deploy/bundle.tar.gz
/opt/pm2-meteor/my-app/bundle.tar.gz

ERROR: Permission denied

Some more information would be helpful.

[cunneen]

It's failing at the scp (session.copy) in remoteTasks.js .

[cunneen]

Turned out to be the permissions of the remote directories I manually created (duh).

I'll leave this open as I believe the pm2-meteor tool should have created these; I'd specified the user in the pm2-meteor file, and that user had sudo access at the time. Also the error reporting could be improved.

Thanks for making this tool available; now that I have it working I think I'll enjoy it!

[maxcabrera]

Hello @cunneen, could you explain a bit more how you solved this? Thanks

[bradzo]

Hi @cunneen and @maxcabrera

I just changed the install path to /home/ubuntu/pm2-meteor and then had no issue with permissions.
I'm using an AWS EC2 Ubuntu 14.04 instance.

Not really sure why it has to go into /opt anyway - obviously, that's "the way it is" or "that's where user apps live" in Ubuntu, but for a Meteor app, I see no problem with putting it in /home/ubuntu ?