I am hosting a meteor app on an Ubunu Linux machine. The app is listening on port 3000. If I use a webserver, like NginX and forwards the HTTP requests from port 80 to 3000 I can browse to the server from the outside and see reach the app. However, when I try to access the app directly at port 3000, i.e. browse http://myhost:3000 it just tries to connect and nothing happens.
I have made sure that all firewalls are down and that the app is listening on all interfaces, i.e. 0.0.0.0:3000, so that is not the issue.
To verify that port was actually reachable, I created a simple node js webserver:
var http = require('http');
http.createServer(function (req, res) {
res.writeHead(200, {'Content-Type': 'text/html'});
res.write('Hello World!');
res.end();
}).listen(3000);
Now browsing to the the sever, I can see "Hello World!". So obviously this works so why I can not reach meteor has nothing to do with firewalls or unopened ports.
Thus it seems that there is something strange when trying to access a meteor app directly at port 3000. But why? I use the following environment variables:
export MONGO_URL=mongodb://localhost:27017/meteor
export HOST=myhost
export PORT=3000
export ROOT_URL=http://myhost
So what am I missing? Ports are open and I can see that the node process instance is listening on port 3000 when I run netstat -tulpan
I was using the force-ssl meteor package which makes a redirect back to the ROOT_URL without port number. So solution is to remove the package to make it work with a custom port.
I was discussing the solution on the meteor forum where I got the solution:
https://forums.meteor.com/t/can-not-access-meteor-app-without-passing-through-nginx-server/40739/11
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I have installed nodejs in aws ubuntu 18.04 version. Added port 3000 in security Group. but node js not working in my public address with port for eg: http://3.xx.xx.xx:3000.
Note: pm2 running with node js
The solution for this is :-
in your backend inside app.js listen on port 3000 or which ever port you wish to.
Go to amazon console, got to security groups associated with your ec2 instance, and under incoming connection add a custom tcp rule with port 3000 and source should be 0.0.0.0/0 and save it
Run netstat -pan | grep 3000 if you noticed that node.js listen on 127.0.0.1 only not 0.0.0.0 so You can't access node.js from outside because it is listening on localhost IP i.e 127.0.0.1.
You need to configure node.js to listen on 0.0.0.0 so it will be able to accept connections on all the IPs of your machine.
For example:
var http = require('http');
http.createServer(function (req, res) {
res.writeHead(200, {'Content-Type': 'text/plain'});
res.end('Hello World\n');
}).listen(3000, "0.0.0.0");
console.log('Server running at http://0.0.0.0:3000/');
last step if you did not already, go to the Security Groups tab in the EC2 console. Right click the security group you setup and click edit inbound rules.
Click Add Rule. This time we are going to use a custom TCP rule on port 3000, open to anywhere.
I am playing with a small node server application.I have hosted it in AWS Lightsail's ubuntu instance. It is reachable from local browser like http://localhost:4201/
but when I try to access it from remote, it is unreachable.
In aws instance's network config I have opened traffic for all ports
I have cleared all rules from iptables as well. I am able to reach http port 80 and ping successfully. But no luck with node server, what am I missing? Is there a special way to enable traffic to node server?
I debugged it, basically in server.ts
I had bound it to localhost so it won't accept request from outside
app.listen(4201, '127.0.0.1', function () {
console.log('Server Listening on 0.0.0.0:4201');
});
changed it to 0.0.0.0
app.listen(4201, '0.0.0.0', function () {
console.log('Server Listening on 0.0.0.0:4201');
});
And now it is accessible from everywhere.
When I run my NodeJS server in remote server with script "next" for example, it compiles successful and get "Running in localhost:3000" but when I try to enter to ip:3000 didn't get response from server.
What I should do?
Ubuntu server.
The server respond correctly without :3000
Have you tried to open the ports on your server for port 3000? :)
I'm on Ubuntu so this may be different on your system, but i think this should work for you.
ufw allow 3000
If you want to access remotely you cannot listen your server using localhost
Try to listen server in 0.0.0.0
var http = require('http');
http.createServer(function (req, res) {
res.writeHead(200, {'Content-Type': 'text/plain'});
res.end('Hello World\n');
}).listen(3000, "0.0.0.0");
Debugging this might follow a path on these lines:
Verify the server is actually running on that machine. Try to connect to it locally from another shell on that that remote/server machine (use curl if the machine is headless). If it's not running locally, you clearly won't be able to connect remotely.
Assuming the service is actually running, determine if you have the right IP address for the remote machine. Running something like ifconfig (ipconfig on windows I think?) will tell you this.
Determine if you can reach the machine at all over the network. You might try to send it a ping, or connect to another service you know it's offering. If you can't reach it, is it running a firewall that's preventing you or is there address translation going on somewhere?
In hostgator I have a VPS running centOS. I installed NodeJS and screen.
I added the following code to a file named index.js:
//1
var http = require('http');
//2
http.createServer(function (req, res) {
res.writeHead(200, {'Content-Type': 'text/html'});
res.end('<html><body><h1>Hello World</h1></body></html>');
}).listen(3000);
console.log('Server running on port 3000.');
On 'screen:1' I run the following command:
node index.js
It gives me the console output stating 'Server running on port 3000.'
I switch to 'screen:0' and run the following command:
curl localhost:3000
and I get the following response:
<html><body><h1>Hello World</h1></body></html>
Yet, when I try my server's IP address (substitute the xxx for a real IP address, cause I'm not disclosing my VPS IP address):
xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:3000
The page never comes up and eventually it times out.
I've tried various ports (8080, 7000) and to not avail.
Do I need to place the iOS project in a different directory.
Currently I have it in /root/Projects/NodeTutorial2/index.js.
What do I need to do to get a hello world response from my VPS?
If you're getting a response from on the box, but not from other boxes, it's almost certainly a firewall issue. Turning off IPTables or allowing the traffic in on the port in question is one option but an easier / more appropriate option is to simply have your app use port 80 (for HTTP) or 443 (for HTTPS). You can either do that by listening to that port on the app directly, or by having a web server that acts as a reverse-proxy for you (e.g. NGINX or Apache).
I run Apache on my server. Going to my address x.x.x.x:port loads the index.html page in /var/www. When I stop the server, I can no longer connect (all good).
Now I start the node server with node server.js (the server.js file below is also located in /var/www).
var http = require('http');
http.createServer(function (req, res) {
res.writeHead(200, {'Content-Type': 'text/plain'});
res.end('Hello World\n');
}).listen(port, 'x.x.x.x');
console.log('Server running at http://x.x.x.x:port/');
This gives the error listen EADDRNOTAVAIL, but I am not running any other node server (there is no other process running at this port).
I have also tried omitting the IP address and just listening thus: listen(port);
This returns no errors, but I cannot connect to the server (Browser says: Firefox can't establish a connection to the server at x.x.x.x:p.)
I have found out the problem. You don't need to specify a host name:
listen(port, 'x.x.x.x')
should just be
listen(port)
otherwise the server will not accept any connection except ones directed at the specified ip.
The port is in use or not available. Try a different port like:
listen(88, 'x.x.x.x');
and see if that connects. Also, make sure that x.x.x.x is actually the ip address of your server. You can listen on all IPs by doing:
listen(88, '0.0.0.0');
or by leaving the host/ip section out entirely. If it does connect on another port, you just need to find what is using the port you want. If it's port 80, use:
sudo netstat -tulpn | grep :80
to get the program using that port.
Sounds like the port is locked up and in use..
The following command will give you a list of node processes running.
ps | grep node
To free up that port, stop the process using the following.
kill <processId>