Question
How do I access my nodejs application running on Dokku without a port number?
I have my node.js application running successfully via Dokku. I can reach it via my app’s IP address http://1.2.3.4:49168.
Since it’s Dokku, the port number changes every time I deploy. We’ve setup a subdomain to point to it and it works successfully when we access http://subdomain.ourdomainname.com:49168 but the application fails if we try to just use http://subdomain.ourdomainname.com
I’ve followed a few tutorials and taken edited both my /home/dokku/VHOSTS
and /home/dokku/myapp/VHOSTS
but nothing seems to take.
I can successfully SSH into my application with $ ssh root@subdomain.ourdomainname.com
so it seems to me that something is working the way it should.
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As an update, I’ve followed the directions here https://www.digitalocean.com/community/questions/how-to-access-my-app-via-ip-without-specify-port to no avail.
Did you setup the subdomain for your app with the domains plugin?
With a little finagling in
/etc/nginx/nginx.conf
I was able to get to the “Welcome to nginx” page usingsubdomain.ourdomain.com
but I’m not able to get to the point where I can access my application.