Install a NodeJS App as a Windows System Service

[AJ ONeal]

I've had quite a headache trying to figure this out - mostly due to not knowing where stderr / stdout goes on windows (and hence not being able to debug failure for the service to start).

http://blog.coolaj86.com/articles/how-to-create-an-innosetup-installer.html

I've been able to install a node app in C:\AppName, but not C:\Program Files\AppName (it will start when run manually from PowerShell, but not automatically from NSSM or node-windows)

For those that are intending to do this, hopefully that helps.

For those that are expert, I'd appreciate it if you'd peek at my script and look for any obvious errors. Maybe a windows guy would know what I'm doing wrong.

If you care to patch the docs:

https://github.com/coolaj86/blog.coolaj86.com/blob/master/posts/how-to-create-an-innosetup-installer.md

AJ ONeal

[Stephen Vickers]

The windows-service module can handle spaces in paths:

https://npmjs.org/package/windows-service

[AJ ONeal]

On Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 1:11 AM, Stephen Vickers <vortex...@gmail.com> wrote:

The windows-service module can handle spaces in paths:

https://npmjs.org/package/windows-service

Would you mind testing it with my example project?

Someone else was telling me that they've had no problem with NSSM or node-windows installing to Program Files, but I've tried 11 ways from Sunday to get various configurations working and I'm obviously doing something wrong.

AJ ONeal

[José F. Romaniello]

2013/4/24 AJ ONeal <cool...@gmail.com>

Someone else was telling me that they've had no problem with NSSM or node-windows installing to Program Files,

+1, it works perfectly fine for me.

I have a module called Winser that does uses nssm and install as shwon here:

https://github.com/jfromaniello/winser/blob/master/bin/winser#L94

What i do is to run npm on the folder of the project and the project could be anywhere. I guess you might be missing some double-quotes "" for the path.

[AJ ONeal]

Behold Les Doubles-Quotes

https://github.com/coolaj86/HelloNode/blob/master/winstaller/hello-node.iss#L86

Filename: "{app}\{#NSSM}"; Parameters: "install {#MyAppShortName} ""{pf64}\nodejs\node.exe"" ""{app}\bin\server.js"" ""5566"""; Flags: runhidden;

Filename: "{sys}\net.exe"; Parameters: "start {#MyAppShortName}"; Flags: runhidden;

Maybe when I'm rebuilding for my actual app I'll play with it a bit more.

Right now just thinking about Windows gives me an ulcer.

AJ ONeal

[vortex]

I would normally jump at the chance, but I am quite overwhelmed with work at the moment.

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