Install additional node versions in Plesk Onyx

Question

This a guidance not a problem to solve, to help those which have the same issue I had

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

I had some troubles installing additional node versions into Plesk to run my meteorJS app on my server instead of their hosting service.

Answer 1

Thanks for the question :) As some people were using this method, they ran into this problem:

/opt/plesk/node/v12.13.1/bin/npm install
/usr/bin/env: 'node': No such file or directory

The NPM script is looking for the default node location by asking it to env. The plesk-version of the NPM files are slightly modified to point to the correct node version.

To fix this, make a small edit to the npm file:

• After step 3, edit the /opt/plesk/node/[your_version]/bin/npm file.
• Replace the first line with #!/opt/plesk/node/[your_version]/bin/node