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Comment by Prashant Abhishek on "Please write a tutorial on how to take the MERN scaffolding to a cloud server and DB?" | Hashnode

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Prashant Abhishek

Co-founder at AltCampus

Mar 6, 2016

@surfyogi, You simply need to set MONGO_URL and PORT environment variables right. For you, change the start:prod npm script to something like this- "start:prod": "cross-env NODE_ENV=production MONGO_URL=foobar PORT=80 node index.js"

Replace value of MONGO_URL with whatever your remote URL for mongo is. That should be as simple as that. I hope you know that passing proper environment variables is a thing to consider before deploying anything in production. This is just that.

Jeff Papineau

Hangin in SV

Mar 6, 2016

OK, that worked. But only if I have root access on my personal machine or sudo. If I edit the config.js instead, and set MONGO_URL and PORT there, then it fails to start, with the npm start script. How to start without npm and get rid of needed root authority? Not sure how to set the env vars, since it doesn't seem to work if I touch config.js.. can I set env vars in config.js and then use 'node index.js'? Please recommend a procedure to get away from npm, it seems to be what is requiring root access. thx, J-

@surfyogi You don't need to edit config.js to set env variables. You can do it like this MONGO_URL=<URL_HERE> npm run start:prod.

Sandeep Panda

co-founder, Hashnode

Mar 7, 2016

Jeff Papineau

Hangin in SV

Mar 7, 2016

I think NPM is an issue here, when deploying to production, would root access be needed unless things are correctly setup for npm to not require root access? docs.npmjs.com/getting-started/fixing-npm-permiss… This article talks about how to make npm less needy for permissions, and in my case, I want to deploy to cloud with a PaaS container, and I don't have root access. So it seems we need a solution for how to make nmp work without root, and that means administration of npm is needed, as talked about in this article, 2 choices, and I don't know which is best. thx, Jeff.