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Runny Yolk
Runny Yolk

Reputation: 1164

Running Node App on Shared Hosting (It's almost working)

I've managed to get Node and NPM installed on my shared hosting account with Namecheap by following this answer. It all seems to be working, I can launch my app and it stays launched, but the subdomain which points to app's root route just shows up the folder of the domain.

I've tried going to myaddress.com/subdomain:8080 but I get a server error plus a 404. I've also tried changing Node's listening port from 8080 to 80, but on 80 I get an error: 

Error: listen EACCES 0.0.0.0:80

So that means I don't have rights to port 80. How can I get clients to connect port 8080?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 4630

Answers (1)

blamb
blamb

Reputation: 4289

This is the part that shared hosting has a problem with, they wont open any ports for you. This is exactly where your workaround needs to be centered. Im currently looking for solutions to either use php to serve a node see here https://www.npmjs.com/package/node-php-server and here How to host a Node.Js application in shared hosting or just configuring express to use somehow port 80.

These would be your best options.

Upvotes: 1

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