Install node.js on Managed Cloud Server

This guide explains how to use Node.js with a managed Cloud Server.

Node.js is a free software platform in JavaScript geared towards network applications that need to be able to scale.

At the moment, Node.js is not available with ourshared web hosting .

Install Node.js

Prerequisite

• Install NVM on the cloud server

To install Node.js via NVM:

nvm install stable

Attention version 18 is not compatible, to install the latest compatible version Infomaniak will therefore need to run the command:

nvm install 17

List available versions:

nvm ls-remote

Then, to install a specific version:

nvm install 

Or to install the latest version:

nvm install node

Change version of Node.js, to put version 6.3.1 (or another version):

nvm alias default 6.3.1

Source

Go to your cloud server's WebSSH console to set up NVM on your cloud server.

You need to source the .profile file: 

source ~/.profile

You can then run the command: 

nvm

Redirection of web traffic to a specific port

Prerequisites

• Install HAProxy on the Cloud server

By default, on Cloud, web traffic is sent to Apache. To send requests to a Node script or another service (as long as it "listens" on a port between 4000 and 4009), you must go through HAProxy.

This applies in particular to Express servers, Socket.IO, Meteor.js, Nuxt.js, Django, Flask, Ruby on Rails, even possibly Java (J2E), etc. 

To do this, you must ensure that the service is listening on a port between 4000 and 4009 (especially with server.listen(4000) for Express or a basic Node HTTP server, but depending on the project type by other means, a configuration file, in code or otherwise) and on all interfaces (0.0.0.0). It will also be necessary to configure HAProxy as in the example below: 

1. Connect to your Infomaniak space (manager.infomaniak.com)
2. Go to Cloud server
3. Click on the cloud server concerned
4. From the left side panel, click on FastInstaller
5. In the list of applications, click on the iconto the far right of FastInstaller and select Configure