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firepick1 (localhost) edited this page Oct 24, 2015 · 17 revisions

Prerequisites

You must have:

  • git
  • A Linux operating system

Installation

Open up a console window in an empty directory of your choice (your home directory is fine). Note that installation may take up to 30m on a Raspberry Pi (have you considered a Raspberry Pi 2?):

git clone https://github.com/firepick1/firenodejs
cd firenodejs
scripts/install.sh

Run

Launch the nodejs web server:

node js/server.js

Open up a browser to see the firenodejs web page:

FAQ

  • Why port 8080? The standard HTTP port 80 is below 1024 and normally off-limits to normal users. There are many solutions to this problem. The ugliest (because root should never run a web server) is to do this:
sudo node js/server.js

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