I copied the Hello World example from
https://nodejs.org/en/about/
and it works fine on my Ubuntu cloud instance. Now I'd like to make the Hello World page visible to the entire Internet. What changes are required to the code to accomplish this?
Update: When port is set to 80 and hostname is set to the instance IP address, the following errors are generated when attempting to initiate a node.js session:
ubuntu#instance04:~/NodeJS/NodeHW$ node index01
events.js:183
throw er; // Unhandled 'error' event
^
Error: listen EACCES <my_ip_address>:80
at Object._errnoException (util.js:1022:11)
at _exceptionWithHostPort (util.js:1044:20)
at Server.setupListenHandle [as _listen2] (net.js:1334:19)
at listenInCluster (net.js:1392:12)
at doListen (net.js:1501:7)
at _combinedTickCallback (internal/process/next_tick.js:141:11)
at process._tickCallback (internal/process/next_tick.js:180:9)
at Function.Module.runMain (module.js:686:11)
at startup (bootstrap_node.js:187:16)
at bootstrap_node.js:608:3
You should be able to view the page on your server using its IP. But you may need to take a couple of steps first:
Take note of which port your Node app is listening on. 3000? 80? In production (i.e. on your cloud server instance), it would be customary to run your application on the default HTTP port, which is 80. But other ports are fine to use too.
Depending on your cloud provider, you may have to adjust its Network Settings before it allows any inbound traffic from the internet through to your server. On AWS, for example, each instance is bound to a Security Group. Think of this as a cloud-level firewall that controls internet access to and from your server. On AWS, again as an example, you'd have to adjust your Security Group Inbound Rules to allow TCP connections to be established to port 80 (or whichever port your Node app is listening on). Here's a sample picture of what it looks like. In this example, I've opened port 80 of my server for TCP traffic. Open whichever port that your Node app is listening on. The protocol for HTTP is TCP.
Furthermore, you may have to also adjust your server's internal firewall settings. On Ubuntu, in order to check the status of the firewall, issue this command:
$ sudo ufw status
If the status is inactive, then it means Ubuntu is not enforcing any firewall rules. If it's active, however, you need to make sure that it is allowing incoming traffic to your Node app's port. I'll let you research how to adjust ufw settings.
Finally, obtain the Public facing IP address or assigned domain name of your server. On AWS, this information is available on your instance details view:
So, now you should be able to browse, from anywhere on the internet to your server's public IP and your Node app's port and view the page.
http://ip:port
If your server's IP is 123.123.123.123 and your Node app is listening on port 3000, then the address would be http://123.123.123.123:3000. If your Node app is listening on port 80, then there's no need to specify the port when you browse. So you can simply go to: http://123.123.123.123
I received the answer from tech support at DreamHost.com. I quote: "The problem is that in order to bind to any port lower than 1000, you need to use sudo."
I am using port 80, so the following works:
sudo node index01
Update: The exact limit is 1024, i.e., when a port lower than 1024 is used sudo must precede the node command.
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Error: listen EADDRINUSE: address already in use 0.0.0.0:80
code: 'EADDRINUSE',
errno: -4091,
syscall: 'listen',
address: '0.0.0.0',
port: 80
getting these error while running the command "npm run env-debug"
how can I resolve these.
It's because the port 80 is typically reserved for tcp and http communication. Use different ports like 5000, 3000 etc.
See details here Wikipedia port 80
One of the processes is using port 80. Also, it depends on the OS. Generally, you can not access ports below 1024 without root or admin authorization.
Check which process is using port 80. Most web servers use 80 ports like apache or Nginx.
Windows: Check Ports
Linux: Check Ports
Kill the process using port 80 and you are good to go if you have root privileges.
But, you should never run the node.js app on port 80 with root privileges. It is not recommended to run any server software as root. Run your app on some other port like 80 and use a reverse proxy like Nginx to map it.
NodeJS version: LTS 12.17 installed like this:
curl -sL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_12.x | sudo -E bash -
sudo apt install nodejs
I have a pretty weird issue:
One of my NodeJS app suddenly reports: listen EADDRINUSE: address already in use and it doesn't help anything no matter what port # I try to change it to?
The full trace-stack looks like this:
Error: listen EADDRINUSE: address already in use 0.0.0.0:6080
at Server.setupListenHandle [as _listen2] (net.js:1313:16)
at listenInCluster (net.js:1361:12)
at doListen (net.js:1498:7)
at processTicksAndRejections (internal/process/task_queues.js:85:21)
I'm listening like this (_wl = a Winston logger instance):
> _server.listen(_port, '0.0.0.0', function () { _wl.info('SERVER STARTED! (listening on port # ' + _port + ')')});
I have just setup this AWS EC2 Ubuntu 20.04 instance - so I guess somehow it has something to do with this. It has been working for years on a lot of different instance earlier Windows (I guess I have never run it on Ubuntu earlier).
I execute like like:
1. cd into folder
2. node ./server.js (I have also tried to use Sudo)
Can it have something to do with permissions?
I have tried to allow all in /out going traffic in the server atteched Security Group.
I have check that the firewall in Ubuntu 20.04 is disabled as well.
Also, on the same server I'm running a Python app which exposes a web socket server and the NodeJS app has no issue to subscribe to this connection...
And yes - I have tried to check all ports in use at the server and only few ports are in use.
The NodeJS app also try to expose a websocket server at a given port - but no matter what port I try to use I get the error above.
Sorry!
I use express in my NodeJS apps and most of my apps contain the following line:
app.listen(port); // In this case port # 6080
Later on in the current app (in which I experience the issue described above) I initialize a web socket server as well like this:
const _server = require('http').createServer();
_server.on('request', app);
_server.listen(_port, '0.0.0.0', function () { _wl.info('WEB SOCKET SERVER STARTED! (listening on port # ' + _port + ')')});
in the code above both port and _port used the same ENV variable/setting(6080). Do to my app/Express in this case actually didn't use the app.listen(port) to anything and that Windows just choose to overrule the port's use-case when the web socket server afterwards got initialized with the same port number --> is the reason why I never have experienced any issues on Windows. But Linux/Ubuntu is more sensitive in this regard.
Cheers! :-)
I've trying to run my nodejs/expressjs application on my godaddy server, but any port I use times out. I've tried using the application on my local device and it works fine. I have a snippet of my connection below.
var app = express();
app.listen(8080, function() {
console.log("Listening on port " + 8080);
});
When I run the program through ssh, I get no errors
node index.js
Listening on port 8080
But when I go to the corresponding location in my browser, I get:
xxx took too long to respond.
ERR_CONNECTION_TIMED_OUT
I'm pretty sure it has to do with running on the godaddy server. If anyone has experience using this service with nodejs, is there a specific port I should be using, or is there any other setup I should do?
Do you have a VPS with GoDaddy right? So I assume you have also root access.
SSH into your GoDaddy server as root and check if the node.js app actually listens on that port:
netstat -tunlp | grep 8080
If you see any result there for the node.js app and that port then the port is open.
By default, there should be a firewall on your server which might block most of the ports and allows only the necessary incoming traffic.
You can check if there is any rule for that port by issuing the command bellow:
iptables -nvL | grep 8080
If any result is returned, then you have to add an iptables rule to allow access to that port. There are multiple methods to do that:
permit full access from your IP access to the server
permit your ip to access port 8080 on the godaddy server
permit outside world to access port 8080 on your server
You could read any iptables guy, it's pretty easy to add/edit/delete firewall rules. Most of the cPanel/WHM servers come with CSF Firewall (which is based on iptables and perl scripts).
In order to allow an ip address to your firewall (if you have CSF Firewall installed) you have to issue the following command:
csf -a ip-address
I hope that helps!
I have a node.js app that runs on port 3000. I deployed it on amazon web services (ec2) and it works over there. My server.js file says:
var port = process.env.PORT || 3000;
(...)
app.listen(port);
console.log('App listening on port ' + port);
My security group in aws settings seems to have the port 80 also opened:
so I thought it's enough to just change the var port to = 80 and restart the server. But when I did that I got an error:
bitnami#ip-172-31-47-102:~/apps/myproject/www/myproject$ sudo node server.js
App listening on port 80
events.js:141
throw er; // Unhandled 'error' event
^
Error: listen EADDRINUSE :::80
at Object.exports._errnoException (util.js:856:11)
at exports._exceptionWithHostPort (util.js:879:20)
at Server._listen2 (net.js:1237:14)
at listen (net.js:1273:10)
at Server.listen (net.js:1369:5)
at Function.app.listen (/opt/bitnami/apps/myproject/www/myproject/node_modules/express/lib/application.js:542:24)
at Object.<anonymous> (/opt/bitnami/apps/myproject/www/myproject/server.js:43:5)
at Module._compile (module.js:398:26)
at Object.Module._extensions..js (module.js:405:10)
at Module.load (module.js:344:32)
at Function.Module._load (module.js:301:12)
at Function.Module.runMain (module.js:430:10)
at startup (node.js:141:18)
at node.js:1003:3
I'm using the Bitnami MEAN 3.2.1-0 system on Amazon.
Also, the reason why I want to change this port is this:
so far all my webservices operate on port 3000. However, I also have there a public_html folder with the index.html file. So when any user wants to display my webpage he has to enter not only the webpage, but also the port (3000) which is not that convenient.
So far the whole app stays under www.ec2-some-random-amazom-numbers.eu-west-1.compute.amazonaws.com:3000/index.html so I will buy a normal top level domain to point at it (eg. something.com ) but then - do I still need to change the port 3000 to 80 in that case? Or maybe it's common to leave apps on port other than 80?
If the latter, then will it be possible for me to leave the port as it is and just point the top level domain on this whole long amazon one with a port 3000 at the end?
So for example: when user types www.something.com it will redirect him to
www.ec2-some-random-amazom-numbers.eu-west-1.compute.amazonaws.com:3000/index.html ?
Something like this should work for you:
iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -i eth0 -p tcp --dport 80 -j REDIRECT --to-port 3000
You want to use iptables to forward request coming in on port 80 to port 3000 internally.
Based on the error you're getting, (EADDRINUSE), some other web server is listening on port 80 already on your server. If you can prevent that server from running, then you can change your app to run on port 80.
Do the following:
Figure out what's already running on port 80 on your server. There's a good chance it's Apache. Try using netstat to verify.
Kill it (and prevent it from restarting). This will depend on whats listening.
Move your app to port 80 just like you've already tried.
Additional resources:
http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/what-process-has-open-linux-port/
If you are using the Bitnami Mean Stack then Apache is listening in port 80, hence the conflict. You can either stop the bundled Apache:
sudo /opt/bitnami/ctlscript.sh stop apache
Or you could add a ProxyPass rule in the Apache configuration:
https://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.4/mod/mod_proxy.html#proxypass
I use nginx proxy server for port forwarding
I have faced the same issue.
The solution is to start your NodeJs or ExpressJs app using Port 80, I mean
var port = 80 and start the app using sudo node bin/www
My issue is not able to access the app from internet when the app is running on port 3000: NodeJs App in AWS using port 3000 is not accessible from Internet
I have a Node.JS server that works fine on localhost. Now I want it accessible from the internet, hosted by my machine. My public IP address (the one that Google tells me I have) does not seem to be "accessible":
https.createServer({
key: privateKey,
cert: certificate
}, server).listen(80, '86.151.23.17');
fails with the following Node.JS error:
Error: listen EADDRNOTAVAIL
at errnoException (net.js:770:11)
at Server._listen2 (net.js:893:19)
at listen (net.js:937:10)
at Server.listen (net.js:994:9)
at dns.js:71:18
at process.startup.processNextTick.process._tickCallback (node.js:244:9)
How can I publish my Node.JS server to my public IP address?
[Note: I do not have another webserver running. Also, I have tried various different ports as suggested here.]
You are most likely behind a router so your public IP is not available anywhere but on the router itself. What you need to do is listening on your private IP (usually somehing in the 192.168.* range) and setup a port forward on your router.
In case you are on Linux you'll also want to use a port >1024 instead of 80 so you don't have to run node as root. When setting up the port forwarding you can simply forward port 80 to whatever port your node server is running on.
const http = require("http");
const hostname = '0.0.0.0';
const port = 80;
server.listen(port, hostname, () => {
console.log(`Server running at http://${hostname}:${port}/`);
});
using 0.0.0.0 will start listing to the public internet I have tested it.
I have experienced the cases that the ISP given router is intercepting default 80 and 443 ports. Even though the ports are opened. So better check server first using a port like 8080 etc.
And also configure port forwarding to a static local address (ipconfig /all assumed your host is windows) then assigned that IP address to your host using host's MAC address.
for a better experience, if you don't have a static IP, use noip.com dynamic domain names to access your server at any time (without knowing IP address).
Your app should listen on other ip address, example
app.listen(3000,'0.0.0.0');
or just
app.listen(3000);
Then you must open port forwarding in your modem. Like this http://www.dlink.com/uk/en/support/faq/routers/wireless-routers/dkt-series/how-do-i-open-up-ports-to-my-computer-port-forwarding-on-this-router
Finally you can see your app at ip address in here https://whatismyipaddress.com/