Question
Change root directory for a domain?
- Posted April 8, 2014
I have a development directory (/build) and a public directory (/public) how do I serve the public directory as the home?
I don’t want to have to do a re-direct or obviously serve the site on http://www.mysite.io/site/public
Any thoughts I can’t find anything?
P.S I am not using any stack, I don’t think I need apache (even though I think it’s installed already) or php. This is a node.js app and I think I may eventually run this on port 3000, and eventually need to figure out how to serve that on port 80 instead.
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Ah nice, I was just reading into that I came across this https://www.digitalocean.com/community/articles/how-to-install-laravel-with-nginx-on-an-ubuntu-12-04-lts-vps and I figured I probably need to be running on apache or nginx. <br> <br>Thanks!
Hi Michael, <br> <br>There are a number of ways that you can accomplish this. I’d suggest serving your site with Nginx. This article should set you on the right path: <br> <br>https://www.digitalocean.com/community/articles/how-to-host-multiple-node-js-applications-on-a-single-vps-with-nginx-forever-and-crontab <br> <br>If the node.js app is going to run on port 3000, your Nginx configuration could be as simple as: <br> <br>server { <br> listen 80; <br> <br> server_name your-domain.com; <br> <br> location / { <br> proxy_pass http://localhost:3000; <br> proxy_http_version 1.1; <br> proxy_set_header Upgrade $http_upgrade; <br> proxy_set_header Connection ‘upgrade’; <br> proxy_set_header Host $host; <br> proxy_cache_bypass $http_upgrade; <br> } <br>}