Trying to connect to a sails.js web-app running on a droplet

Posted on March 27, 2018

I’ve installed everything and successfully lifted the web server. Everything looks fine in the console. But when I try to connect in my browser to <droplet IP>:1337 - I don’t see the page running

info: Starting app…

info: info: .-…-. info: info: Sails <| .-…-. info: v0.12.14 |
info: /|.
info: / ||
info: ,’ |’
info: .-‘.-==|/_–’ info: --'-------' info: __---___--___---___--___---___--___ info: ____---___--___---___--___---___--___-__ info: info: Server lifted in /web/test` info: To see your app, visit http://localhost:1337 info: To shut down Sails, press <CTRL> + C at any time.

debug: ------------------------------------------------------- debug: :: Tue Mar 27 2018 08:00:14 GMT+0000 (UTC)

debug: Environment : development debug: Port : 1337 debug: -------------------------------------------------------

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kitnik

March 27, 2018

I figured this out, silly me. Changed the port to 80 and it connected.

OSMQuote

October 21, 2019

in the production environment, you can alter the port in the production.js file and then lift the server using sails lift --prod. It will start the server on the defined port.

also to make the sails process run continuously you can use the Forever or PM2.

hope this helps!