Question
How do I get my server to run forever publicly?
- Posted on May 31, 2015
- Node.jsDNSDigitalOcean
Asked by joe1bc82f57312d
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
Browsers default to port 80 for HTTP and 443 for HTTPS, changing your server’s port (whether it’s Node.js or something else) to port 80 should do the trick.
Great, thanks for the recommendation and help!