Knowledge base

This guide explains how to use Node.js with a managed Cloud Server. Node.js is a free software platform in JavaScript aimed at network applications which need to be able to increase load.

For now, Node.js is not available with a Web hosting orWeb + Mail hosting.

Installing Node.js

Please contact our support team from an email address in your client account, telling us:

1. the hosting where you want to install Node.js
2. the version you want (e.g.6.3.0)

We will then install nvm as the Node.js version manager

To start the loop server (server.js contains server.listen(4040)):

To redirect apache traffic to the backend of Node.js, add this to your .htaccess file:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://localhost:4040/$1 [L,P]

Changing Node.js version

Please contact our support team from an email address from your client account telling us:

1. the hosting Node.js is installed on
2. the version you want (e.g. 6.3.0)