The 3 Minute Node Webserver

boot up an EC2 instance with a node webserver and an HTML5 template in minutes

1. Get EC2 instance with one click

Free 30 minute one click server http://www.instantserver.io

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2. Install node for ubuntu

Reference https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Installing-Node.js-via-package-manager#ubuntu-mint

$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install python-software-properties python g++ make
optional $ sudo apt-get install software-properties-common
$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:chris-lea/node.js
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install nodejs

3. Install connect

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6084360/node-js-as-a-simple-web-server

a) Install connect with NPM

$ npm install connect

b) Create server.js file with this content:

var connect = require('connect');
connect.createServer(
	connect.static(__dirname)
).listen(8080);

c) Run with NodeJS

$ node server.js

4. Copy HTML5 Boilerplate

http://html5boilerplate.com/

Download boilerplate and copy to server

5. Open Website

Open up the server IP in the browser on port 8080

Done!

6. Run the server forever

$ npm install forever -g
$ forever start -l forever.log -o out.log -e err.log server.js 

Make forever start script on reboot $ crontab -u root -e @reboot /usr/lib/node_modules/forever/bin/forever start /root/server.js