I created chatting application in nodejs and want to run nodejs server on cpanel linux based hosting. Someone please guide me, or give me step wise instructions to run it.
I don't think it's possible with shared hosting. Unless they explicitly mention they support it.
I have a Mean stack node.js application and amazons remote desktop machine. I need to deploy my node.js application to amozon.
I have uploaded my files to wwwRoot folder. It contains a default index.html page.
After uploading files also, i got that same index.html display in browser.
Please let me know how i can deploy and run my node.js application.
Thanks in Advance
I highly suggest you follow a guide or tutorial to get yourself set up with a node.js web server. From your question is seems to me that you're missing some key points on how a node.js web server functions and there's really not a single answer to your question. I recommend you read up on the following tutorial:
https://blog.risingstack.com/your-first-node-js-http-server/
Good luck!
We're using Nodejs + Express to create a RESTful web service. During testing we kicked off the service via the command-line, i.e., node mim.js and and tested the service using http://server:9999/mim/GetEmployeeData and that works fine.
The node application lives in inetpub\wwroot\myapps\mim and we want to be able to access it like so:
http://apps.mydomain.com/mim/GetEmployeeData
We're not quite sure how to get this to work with IIS, however. Looking for some help with respect to this.
Thanks in advance!
See this Hosting node.js applications in IIS on Windows tutorial:
https://github.com/tjanczuk/iisnode
It explains many different scenarios and since you din't post a lot of details it's hard to give you a more detailed answer other than pointing you to a good documentation about the thing that you're trying to do.
Today I discovered Sails and have been watching a few tutorials. One thing I can't seem to work and find out is how to deploy it to a standard web server, like for example via an FTP client. I've seen the tutorial on how to deploy it to a Heroku account, but this isn't really what I'm after, as we already rent a Windows 2012 server.
I've got a feeling I'm completely missing something here, so can someone please help me out :)
Many thanks
You can transfer all files via FTP to your Webserver (include all node-modules).
But you have to make sure NodeJS is installed on your server. Than login into your Server (e.g. via SSH) and start your Sails-App (node app.js)
I am coming from Microsoft world so please bear with me on this. I was told I could install node.js and use that as a web server instead of IIS. This is a very small business application. In IIS I can create virtual directory and point to the location of the web page and everything works just fine. Based on very little I read, I have few questions;
Is it possible to run node js as a windows service or any other form so that it runs for ever? I did find the forever package that I think I can use.
In IIS, I can create virtual directory set the port and thats it, I have myself a website.
I do not see any examples where I can use a directory where I have a web page, written in java script and point it to run as a web site. All the examples have some thing like server.js and that runs and routes the call. what is the other way to host web sites and use node.js to simple run as a fast web server.
I was told I could install node.js and use that as a web server instead of IIS.
This is true, but as you already found out then you are in charge of providing for things that IIS was already doing for you (e.g. automatically restart on reboot, or on crashes, hosting multiple sites by creating virtual folders, et cetera.)
You can indeed get all of these things worked out in Node.js and there are several libraries that help on each of these areas. It's not too hard but you'll need to do a bit of researching.
You can also run Node.js behind IIS. Take a look at iisnode http://tomasz.janczuk.org/2011/08/hosting-nodejs-applications-in-iis-on.html
Is it possible to run node js as a windows service or any other form so
that it runs for ever?
The library Forever takes care of restarting the site when it crashes...but I don't know if you can run it as a Windows Service. I haven't tried that.
In IIS, I can create virtual directory set the port and thats it,
I have myself a website.
I assume you are talking about a site that serves static HTML files, right? If that's the case that's very easy to support in Node.js either writing your own web server or using Express.js to serve static files.
I do not see any examples where I can use a directory where I have a web page,
written in java script and point it to run as a web site. All the examples
have some thing like server.js and that runs and routes the call.
Here is an extremely simple example to serve plain HTML files in Node.js https://gist.github.com/2573391 Don't use this in production, though. It's just an example and it does not have any kind of error handling or security.
what is the other way to host web sites and use node.js to simple run
as a fast web server.
As others have said, you should look into Express.js http://expressjs.com/ It provides some of the infrastructure that you are very likely going to need when building traditional web sites.
You say you're running a "very small business application" behind IIS. Unless it's written for Node.js (in JavaScript), it won't work.
There are no examples pointing to a directory and running that as a website, because that's not how things are done in Node.js. You write a Node.js-application and pull in a webserver-library.
Put simply, In Node.js, you don't embed the appliation in the webserver; you embed the webserver in the application.
When I used node.js, I redirected HTTP requests by a proxy server, nginx. I don’t know if you can directly bind node.js as an HTTP server, but for what’s it worth, nginx is pretty nice!
First things first, allow me to share an introduction. IMHO you should take this decision ( of moving from IIS to nodeJS) by adding various parameters. I belong to the Java & PHP community yet I use NodeJS to achieve extremely specific implementation where NodeJS perform the fastest ( fast IO, AJAX-JSON responses & more ). As you are coming with a Microsoft background you should bare with less comfortable solutions.
Yes, its possible to run NodeJs as a windows service and Forever will do fine.
and yes you can create "Virtual Directories" but by creating symbolic links to each of your customer's web site.
I recommend to take a good look at bouncy & express, If you're willing to take this step then these packages is just what you need.
Cheers!