Hello community,
I had a pre server install nodejs and npm after. I hand installed a lamp server on it. But I would like to run apps which require node.js
Would like to access to https://peopleandchat.org:3000 it will not load anything.
Any ideas how I can get this to work correctly? using socket.IO chat.
It really depends on what IP you’re using to start the server for the app.
If you use localhost or 127.0.0.1, you won’t be able to access the app via port using your domain as only local access is being permitted.
You’d need to use 0.0.0.0 as the IP, or configure Apache to proxy all requests on port 80 to the local address and port your running the application on.
Would the last part of this guide do this?
The last part “Set Up Nginx as a Reverse Proxy Server” would mean that all visitors would talk to Nginx, which would then connect to Node.js in the backend.
This can be done with Apache as well, if that’s what you’re using. DigitalOcean doesn’t have a tutorial specifically for that, but there’s a tutorial here, which uses port 8080, so you just have to use port 3000 instead:
www.codingtricks.biz/run-nodejs-application-apache/