I have a node app and I can run it on localhost as [IP ADDRESS]:3000, but how do I get it to run forever just as [IP ADDRESS]? A little confused on how this works
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×You can use apache, nginx, haproxy, or the like and reverse proxy from [IP ADDRESS] -> [INTERNAL IP]:3000 (With Internal IP being locally - 127.0.0.1). You can also change the port of your app to make it use 80 so when someone enters the IP (or domain if its an A record) it will go to the web page of your app without having to define the port within the URL
Thanks darius, is this tutorial a good guide for that https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-set-up-a-node-js-application-for-production-on-ubuntu-14-04?
So would I need to do something like this? https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-set-up-a-node-js-application-for-production-on-ubuntu-14-04
Yes, that would work very well for what you are trying to do. I would recommend using nginx or haproxy over apache too.