I have a problem that confuses me since hours. I have a small website with a chat application on an express server. On localhost there is no problem at all. Images load normally, css and js files ok, everything perfect.
But as soon as I push the code online into IBM-Cloud (ex-bluemix), images give me a 404. The rest of the static files do get served though, and the application otherwise works normally.
The file structure looks like this:
--client
--resources
logo.png
--scripts
loginScreen.js
--stylesheets
stylesheet1.css
index.html
--server
app.js
The server starts in app.js and in the code I've put this before initializing the server:
expressApp.use(express.static(path.join(__dirname, "..", "client")));
I had some small problems with filename casing which I detected after building a docker container, but this is resolved and shouldn't be the problem. Any ideas?
The Simple Cloud Foundation Toolchain was registering my commits in github successfully and triggered the auto-build and deploy.
All code changes were pulled normally by the bluemix server. But the filename changes not. So for example the file called Logo.png was renamed to logo.png locally. This change was pushed normally into github. But logging into the bluemix server with ssh revealed that the filename there remained Logo.png.
I had to change the filenames manually by $ mv and now it works.
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I hope that I will not waste everyone's time, nor embarrass myself, but please hear/read my problem. I am new to this, so please bear with me.
Someone at work wrote a crude code in Node.js and I can see the .html files by having localhost: 8080 as the URL in the browser, while having the VisualStudio starting the npm with npm start command. Am I explaining this clear enough?
The webpages are displayed and all, but now comes the hurdle.
How can i have those pages served from a a Linux server?
If by analogy, I put some.html page inside the /var/www/ in a Apache server, pointing to the server's IP/somepage.html i can visualise it, what needs to be set up on a similar Node.js server?
Where do I have to put those files, inside what directory and what configuration is needed?
I thought to create a small LXC container and have those files and services saved as a template, but first I need to set this up correctly. Can Apache serve those files, do I have to make another configuration first?
I have those files served from a Windows machine from local host, and put the same files in a /node ,/opt/ www directory in a Linux machine, but no dice.
I've been driving myself a little mad trying to deploy this node.js and express app
I'm hosting on bluehost, so therefor, deploying via cpanel -
Currently:
Git repo cloned and deployed head commit success
Node app registered in app manager and Npm dependencies have been successfully ensured.
I after cd'ing into my repository directory in cpanel terminal I ran
/opt/cpanel/ea-nodejs10/bin/node app.js
and it was confirmed that
Server running at http://127.0.0.1:3000
Then after logging into whm root I ran
curl http://127.0.0.1:3000
And am returned with my index.ejs file , which seems like a good sign.
However, when I go to my domain -- deltadesigns.co
All you can see is :
Index of /
Name Last modified Size Description
DeltaDesigns22/ 2021-02-27 06:23 -
cgi-bin/ 2021-02-19 03:00 -
DeltaDesigns22 is the repo with all of required files and folders, public, views, app.js cpanel.yml etc.
I can't figure out why it's not working, feel like I'm so close but am just missing something! All help is appreciated!
I am trying to deploy my portfolio using Heroku and the web only has an HTML file, a CSS file, and a simple javaScript file. screenshot of all my files are here
I pushed all of these files to Github and linked them to Heroku. Heroku deployed successfully but as I opened the URL, it gives me an application error with code H10. I googled a lot of fixes and tried adding a Procfile file but none seems to have worked. Can Anyone help me with this issue?
You need to know that heroku is not designed to post static websites. Nevertheless if you still would like to upload static website you need to organize your structure to somehow trick Heroku to see your files as an application.
Add composer.json root directory by adding {} inside, and index.php to the root directory,in index.php, add the following line: <?php include_once("home.html"); ?>, change your index.html to home.html. Push them to heroku, now it should work.
I have a project in gatsby which uses Node.js/express for backend with MySQL.
Now, I know that all I have to do is gatsby build and that will create the static html/css/js files for me in the project/public folder and I can paste all of them in public_html folder and that will work(it is working), but Im confused about the database thing:
My issue is that in the gatsby-config.js when I change the mySql connection from localhost to the hosted db settings such as:
(The commented one is the hosted db configurations)
If I run gatsby develop while uncommenting the code. It says No such DB Error(obviously). So How can I configure the db settings here and also in the gatsby-node.js file to connect the db with the project?
I know this might sound like a dumb question but please help as I'm confused about what to do next.
Thanks.
Okay! Spent a lot of time on this. Hope it will help others.
Static Gatsby site
If you're trying to host a static gatsby site on any shared hosting. By static, I mean just plain gatsby styled pages,
You can do as the gatsby doc says:
Run : gatsby build or npm run build.
According to gatsby:
Gatsby will perform an optimized production build for your site, generating static HTML and per-route JavaScript code bundles.
After this : try npm run serve.
According to gatsby :
Gatsby starts a local HTML server for testing your built site. Remember to build your site using gatsby build before using this command.
serve will test your build files(newly created files in yourprojectroot/public dir)
This will run your project(using the build files) on a test server(localhost:9000) to basically test your build files.
Test this localhost:9000, If everything is working good. You can go to your remote cPanel and paste all your build files into the public_html folder.
Head over to your domain and you're good to go.
Gatsby with MySQL and Node/express
If you are trying to host your gatsby site which works a little with node and mysql as well and you are a newbie in hosting like me, Here's what you'll want to do:
Try both the points mentioned above. (Build your static files and try serve)
Setup your db on the remote as well with the same name dbname, username and password as your local one.
Two extra things:
Now, what you are going to do is to run both the node and gatsby(webpack) servers on the same port (say 8001). So we are going to use only the node server and serve all our gatsby files(build files) as static content to node server.
In your node file, add:
app.use(express.static(path.join(__dirname, 'public')));
app.get('/*', function(req,res) {
res.sendFile(path.join(__dirname,'public/index.html'));
});
As you are going to run all your gatsby pages through index.html the last get('/*'... (above) will take care of all the pages request. Change the path public according to your remote folder structure
Add the build files along with the node(server connection) file in the public_html folder on remote.
Next add or change your .htaccess file (in the remote) to :
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^$ http://127.0.0.1:8001/ [P,L]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://127.0.0.1:8001/$1 [P,L]
So when you run your node file through the server's terminal, instead of yourdomainname.com:8001 the above mentioned .htaccess will redirect it to yourdomainame.com only
All done.
Your public_html now should contain the build files,a node/express conn file and .htaccess file.
Now, just go to your terminal. cd into public_html and run node yournodefilename.
You can head over to your domain now.
Note : You can use pm2 package to keep your node server always running.
Hope it helps somebody.
You should use environment variables to switch between configurations (locally and production). Environment files are files that store sensitive data such as API keys, tokens, etc, so they must be ignored and untracked to avoid pushing critical data to a public repository.
By default, Gatsby uses .env.development and env.production respectively for gasby develop and gatsby build commands, of course, you can override this behaviour but, assuming the default configuration, you should add the following snippet to your gatsby-config.js:
require("dotenv").config({
path: `.env.${process.env.NODE_ENV}`,
})
Then, you need to create a .env.development and .env.production in the root of your project with the following content:
DB_HOST:yourHost
DB_USER:yourUserName
DB_PASSWORD:yourPassword
DB_NAME:youDatabaseName
Of course, each file should have different variables if you want to switch between databases or configurations.
Add them to your gatsby-config.js:
connectionDetails:{
host: process.env.DB_HOST
user: process.env.DB_USER
password: process.env.DB_PASSWORD
database: process.env.DB_NAME
}
The final step is to add, in your host, the environment file in order to make them accessible by Gatsby. S3 by Amazon allows to configure them but I guess that it's a common configuration for the hostings.
So I have this app:
https://github.com/jfny/SocialGrowth.xyz
If you were to git clone and npm install/npm start on your local, it should work fine.
However when I upload the files to my server and try running, it tells me it is unable to look up one of the views, yet the files haven't changed at all.
Why is this?