How to add a new node.js version for the Node.js Manager on Plesk?

Question

Plesk Onyx supports Node.js. My Node.js Manager (from the Plesk extensions) currently supports two nodejs Versions.

Installing a new version with the centos package manager yum did not change anything.

Copying one of the versions, that are installed and putting them to a new folder e.g. 4/ in the directory structure used by the Node.js Manager also did not lead to results.

I need the version Node 4.6.2 for Meteor 1.4.x applications.

Thank you.

Answer 1

Enable Node support in Plesk Onyx:

1. Install the "Node support" simply from your "update and updates" Plesk interface.
2. Go to your "Node extension" page enable/disable the node versions you need

In case you need additional node versions which does not come with the default node support installation:

1. Install the Node Version Manager on your server
2. Install the versions you need e.g. nvm install v4.8.4
3. Copy paste the node version to plesk cp -R ~/.nvm/versions/node/v4.8.4/ /opt/plesk/node/
4. Then notify your plesk about your installation plesk sbin nodemng register /opt/plesk/node/v4.8.4/bin/node
5. Go to your node extension page where all node versions are listed, hit refresh and voilá

If you have troubles installing the NPM packages through Plesk do it within the SSH shell with the dedicated node version you need for meteor.

1. nvm use 4.8.4
2. cd /bundle/programs/server
3. npm install
4. Go to the Plesk GUI, select your domain, click on node.js
5. Configure your app and run it

Opened a dedicated thread for this to help people finding it.

Install additional node versions in Plesk Onyx

Answer 2

To add to the already great answer by Maertz, here is an up to date simpler guide

You can use n to manage your node installs and to do the installation in the correct directory

Assuming you want to install node 16 (because plesk only comes with v12), you can run

apt-get install npm
npm install -g n
export N=16
export N_PREFIX=/opt/plesk/node/$N && n $N && plesk sbin nodemng register $N_PREFIX/bin/node

If you want any other version, replace the N=16 with your major version number

For example for node 14:

export N=14
export N_PREFIX=/opt/plesk/node/$N && n $N && plesk sbin nodemng register $N_PREFIX/bin/node

Then go to yourpleskserverdomain.com:8443/modules/nodejs/index.php/index/refresh to automatically refresh the list of available node version (If anyone finds the way to do this via CLI, feel free to comment)

And you're done

You may also rerun those commands to update the minor version of your already installed node major versions

Answer 3

For those who get the error:

"/usr/bin/env: 'node': No such file or directory"

after following the solution from Maertz:

Open

/opt/plesk/node/YOURVERSION/lib/node_modules/npm/bin/npm-cli.js

and change the first line to

#!/opt/plesk/node/YOURVERSION/bin/node