I have a nodejs application that i wanted to deploy on a local server(which is running Fedora 36). I have developed the NodeJS side on another pc,and it works fine when the node is running. But when i copy the node server directory to the fedora serve and run it,it only works on local host. I couldnot access the server even if i'm in the same network.
I'm developing the app for a small locally connected PC and i donot want to use the hosting companies as well as Heroku. Is the it the firewall that is blocking my request to the server? What option do i have to host it locally? Is there a better way?
Your node.js server is running on a port determined at the end of the script usually. Sometimes 3000. but can be anything. The correct way for others to access is as you say...
http://your.network.ip.address:port/
or
example ip
http://192.168.0.3:3000
check your local ip and port where you run this server.
How could others, on a local network, access my NodeJS app while it's running on my machine?
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I use the example for the chat server in ReactPHP. My server listens on port 8080
$socket = new React\Socket\Server(8080, $loop);
$server->listen($socket);
in my local PC. The written code is working correctly but when upload files into my Linux host, nothing works. I wrote a ticket to the support team from my hoster, they said that this is not possible in Linux. Is that correct?
ReactPHP core team member here. Your run-of-the-mill shared hosting won't be able to host this. You need your own server, VPS, or bare metal, to run ReactPHP as a server because you're dealing with a daemon process. And shared hosting generally doesn't support that.
My suggestion is to get a VPS somewhere and look into Supervisor to keep your process running and restart it when something happens to it. This also requires you to manage your own server with all the firewalling and networking knowledge that comes with it.
I have developed website in react and node.js as intermediary to send and receive response.
Now i want to put this on a machine in lab , so everyone can access it.
Can i Install node on machine in lab and run same setup as on my dev machine and give ip of that server?
I tried searching deployment with node js an react, but everyone using AWS, or some external server after npm build.
How do I deploy my react app on lab machine with out actually copying code?
Two Things before you share your IP and PORT:
Have a process monitor setup in your lab machine, Check out pm2. This will help you run your application in the background,
monitor your application and start your application after restart.
Enable port in your firewall for everyone to use. if your lab system is Ubuntu then allow ufw for the port.
Now you can share your IP:PORT and everyone would be able to access it, provided they all are connected to the same network.
If you want everybody access your server, you can share your private IP with them, so others can access it using
yourip:port
I get what Redis and Node.js are but i don't understand how to run them on a live server. Locally its an install and you use the command line to get them running but i don't know how to install them on a live server.
I've already browsed around a bit but im still confused and also isn't Node.JS a server itself so its like running a server on a server? wouldn't that have effects on performance and what not?
I'm just confused on how it would work, any explanation will be great.. thanks
Redis & Node.js = Software
You install those on a physical machine, a computer. A node.js server is not a physical server, but an application that can handle HTTP requests. Normally, a node.js server runs on a port on a physical machine. So any HTTP requests sent to that port are handled by the node.js application. You can use a webserver, which is another piece of software that handles HTTP requests, like Nginx or Apache to manage multiple domains on a physical machine (the server). Redis also runs on a physical machine and listens on a specified port.
For example, I have a VPS with 4 websites on it managed by Nginx. Two of those websites are Laravel projects that connect to a MySQL server (on another machine) and to a Redis server on the same machine. The other two are node.js applications which don't need a database or Redis, so they just listen on their own ports and Nginx proxies all connections to their domainnames to those ports.
So you're not actually running a server on a server, but you're running software that handles certain things on a server.
There are different ways to run a node service. I strongly recommend docker to run everything but here is a short list of the most popular ones:
https://www.docker.com/ https://hub.docker.com/_/node/
http://pm2.keymetrics.io/
https://www.npmjs.com/package/forever (seems like a bit outdated)
I have a website that uses nodejs with express. The website is working fine on my localhost.
I am not able to find a way to host the website from my laptop i.e. allowing external users to connect to it remotely.
I wanted to check if this is possible. I am using windows 7.
I used to do the same job with php however, I used wamp server. Is there a similar way for nodejs?
Thank you
I used to do the same job with php however, I used wamp server. Is there a similar way for nodejs?
It's identical. Assuming Node.js is listening on the correct interfaces, there is no reason why you can't forward a port in from your router to your server on your laptop.
I use ngrok. You go to ngrok.com and download the client. Then you can do a quick and easy command from your shell and tell ngrok to open the port you are running your Node site on. Something like...
ngrok http 3000
I have nodejs installed, npm installed, modules installed, and my app codes. On my dev machine I simply type node app.js in my app folder to start the dev server, but now it's the time to deploy it to a real server I got problem.
Where is the regular folder to place my app codes.
Which user should be use to run my nodejs app. and how to make the user only have permission to execute app codes, and 80, 443, 843 ports.
How to write the service script, and stop server by kill pid?
ports are determined by which port your app listens on. If you have physical access via ssh to a server and have root privileges etc then you can just treat it as a dev server.
I would recommend forever for keeping it running and maybe a writing a balancer to handle multiple node apps at once.
Permission handling has to be done based on connectivity. A user connects to your service and you authenticate it for its permission levels. This is done by hand.
The folder you place it is not very relevant.
If you have say a no.de server you can learn how to use their smart machines. THere are similar guides for say the Amazon EC2.
I recommend Monit with Upstart. You can read about that solution here and here. You can also make a simple load balancer in nginx.