How To Host NodeJS Apps
Install Node
by downloading from the official website.
Install forever
:
$ npm install forever -g
Modify Apache config file: /etc/apache2/sites-available/000-default.conf
(Ubuntu)
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName app.example.com
ProxyPreserveHost on
ProxyPass / http://127.0.0.1:2368/
ProxyPassReverse / http://127.0.0.1:2368/
</VirtualHost>
Make sure the port is correctly set. Now restart Apache server:
$ sudo apachectl restart
AH00526: Syntax error on line 50 of /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/000-default.conf:
Invalid command 'ProxyPreserveHost', perhaps misspelled or defined by a module not included in the server configuration
Action 'restart' failed.
The Apache error log may have more information.
if you see the above error message, enable proxy first:
$ sudo a2enmod proxy
Enabling module proxy.
To activate the new configuration, you need to run:
service apache2 restart
$ sudo a2enmod proxy_http
Considering dependency proxy for proxy_http:
Module proxy already enabled
Enabling module proxy_http.
To activate the new configuration, you need to run:
service apache2 restart
then restart again:
$ sudo apachectl restart
If you got 500 Internal Server Error
, make sure proxy_http
is enabled
$ ls /etc/apache2/mods-enabled/