####To install nodejs on Amazon Linux:

wget https://nodejs.org/dist/v5.10.1/node-v5.10.1-linux-x64.tar.xz
tar xf node-v5.10.1-linux-x64.tar.xz
mv node-v5.10.1-linux-x64 node

edit .bashrc, add following to the end:

export PATH=$PATH:/home/ec2-user/node/bin

then run:

source .bashrc

To check installation:

npm -v
node -v

To run our application, you need supervisor:

npm install -g supervisor

cd into the project directory, run:

npm start

####To install MongoDB on Amazon Linux: create following file

/etc/yum.repos.d/mongodb-org-3.2.repo 

the content of the file is as follow:

[mongodb-org-3.2]

name=MongoDB Repository
baseurl=https://repo.mongodb.org/yum/amazon/2013.03/mongodb-org/3.2/x86_64/
gpgcheck=1
enabled=1
gpgkey=https://www.mongodb.org/static/pgp/server-3.2.asc

install mongodb:

sudo yum install -y mongodb-org

to run mongod:

cd ~
mkdir -p mongodb/{data,log,conf}
touch mongodb/conf/mongod.conf

edit mongod.conf and add following:

dbpath=/home/ec2-user/mongodb/data
fork=true
logpath=/home/ec2-user/mongodb/log/mongod.log

####To run the backend cd into the project directory, and run

nohup movie/bin/www 1>movie.log 2>movie.err &