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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 that need to be able to increase load.

Node.js is not currently available with Web hosting or Web + 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 (Node Version Manager) as the manager of the Node.js version

To install Node.js via NVM:

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 versions of Node.js

Set 6.1.0 (or another version) as default
nvm alias default 6.1.0