nodejs 'forever' just doesn't do anything

Question

I am trying to run my nodejs app on an Amazon EC2 instance using forever. I installed nodejs npm, and then ran sudo npm install forever -g.
The installation didn't return any errors, so i go ahead and try running my app using forever start server.js, but it won't do anything - no output what-so-ever, not even an error.
I also tried forever --help and just forever, but none of them giving me any response...

When running my app regularly using nodejs - nodejs init.js then it works as expected, but i need to get it running using forever so it won't shut down when i disconnect from the server.

Edit :
Since the only problem i was having was that nodejs was closing when i closed the terminal session to my EC2 server, I solved this by using the linux nohup command like this :
nohup sudo nodejs server.js &
This kept nodejs running in a child process even after I closed the terminal window.

Thanks for the help though! :)

Answer 1

Several guesses.

• If you install using sudo npm install forever -g, you might need to sudo to run forever.
• Put a full path of server.js when you run forever such as forever start /home/you/source/server.js or sudo forever start /home/you/source/server.js