Running forever.js in a git bash script?

Question

Inside my git hook post-receive file.

#!/bin/sh
git --work-tree=/var/www/example.io/public_html --git-dir=/var/repo/example.git checkout -f
forever restart ../../../www/example.io/public_html/server.js

Then when my project is ready to be committed git push live master which triggers the post-receive script above writes the new files but forever gives me an error.

remote: error:   Error restarting process: ../../../www/example.io/public_html/server.js
remote: error:   Cannot find forever process: ../../../www/example.io/public_html/server.js

Obviously the error is clear, but I am pretty confident the directory I gave is accurate, I think I need an alternate way of telling the script where the forever process server.js is located.

I have read https://github.com/foreverjs/forever maybe I am missing something here?

Answer 1

Try using the full path of 'forever'. In terminal run 'which forever' and use the path it gives you in your bash.

It would look something like this
full/path/forever restart ../../../www/example.io/public_html/server.js