Hi there,
I am on a Ubuntu 16.04 droplet running nginx, php7.1-fpm and trying to run a nodejs application over ssl.
To install Nodejs I followed this tutorial: https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-set-up-a-node-js-application-for-production-on-ubuntu-16-04
I cannot even get this line to work:
curl http://localhost:8080
I get:
curl: (7) Failed to connect to localhost port 8080: Connection refused
I have open port 8080 on UFW.
What else can I do?
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When you execute the hello.js script in the console, you need to open a new console window and login again and then run the curl http://localhost:8080.
And you should remove that firewall rule again.
Refer to this tutorial to run your nodejs in background.
To run it over ssl you can use nginx reverse proxy.
Hope this helps.
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