This repository will help you to install/uninstall prerender as a system services on a linux machine using System V init scripts.

By using this installer you will be able to start/stop a prerender instance as service (daemon):

sudo service prerender start|stop|restart

The installer assumes you've already installed node.js, npm

Just clone the repository with

git clone https://github.com/lmammino/prerender-daemon.git

Then run

sudo prerender-daemon/install.sh

and it will do all the following hard work for you:

• Install prerender as global package
• Creates a dedicate prerender user that will be used to run the daemon
• Adds an init script to start the daemon
• Starts the daemon

The installation command support few parameters:

• -h or --help: Display the help
• -v or --verbose: more verbose output
• -u or --uninstall: Act as an unistaller removing prerender-daemon
• -p or --node-prefix: specify a custom node prefix (eg. "/usr")
• -s or --server-script: specify a custom server script that will be used to replace the default launch script (eg. to provide a custom configuration)

If you want to provide a custom script to run your prerender server (with custom configuration variables and plugins) you can use a custom server.js file (you have an example on config/server.js.dist) and pass its path as --server-script parameter to the installer script. This file will be copied and substituted to the default server.js script in your node_modules folder.

Just run

sudo prerender-daemon/install.sh --uninstall

To clean up everything that has been installed previously

This code is distributed under the MIT license. Please refer to the LICENSE file to read the full version.

Contributions are always (and really) appreciated 😉