This is a cheatsheet on deploying a Meteor app to a base Linux server using Meteor Up. I'm currently using Digital Ocean but it could be any Linux server.

Install Meteor Up

sudo npm install -g mup

Initialize MUP

mup init

Create mup.json File

Here's an example:

{
  "servers": [// Server authentication info
    {
      "host": "myhost.domain",
      "username": "root"
      //"password": "mypass"
      //"pem": "~/.ssh/id_rsa"
    }
  ],
  "setupMongo": true,
  "setupNode": true,
  "nodeVersion": "0.10.40",
  "setupPhantom" true,
  "enableUploadProgressBar": true,
  "appName": "sdnet",  // appName no spaces
  "app": ".",
  "env": {  // Configure environment
    "PORT": "8084",
    "ROOT_URL": "http://myhost.domain"
  },
  "deployCheckWaitTime": 15
}

Configure Remote Sever

mup setup

Deploy!

mup deploy